Most of the topics I write about can be considered philosophy, but here's where I post the ones about morals, metaphysics, and anything that would probably fall under "religion" if my ideology counts as that.
For a short-and-sweet label for my ideology, I've settled on "Protagonism". It isn't named after me, isn't easy to confuse with anything else, and isn't an outrageous attempt to co-opt an English word (like Ayn Rand's "Objectivism"). The story of the name is explained at What's a Protagonist?
My core beliefs:
Pretty much everything below is just a corollary of the above. I don't consider the rest of it "part of Protagonism" so much as just the rejection of bogus ideas that are popular. I only need to say them because most people won't notice when they hold contradictory beliefs unless someone points it out to them. (And also because most of the below doesn't depend on Protagonist axiology.) I probably need to reorganize these categories a bit, but I'm not yet sure how.
Why you should be an Anarchist
Pragmatic downsides of government
Real-world examples of voluntary charity
ThErE aRe No HiStOrIcAl ExAmPlEs Of AnArChY
Exposing Circumcision (not really a moral of mine so much as spreading awareness, but it's too important to not be on top.)
Is capitalism luck worship? And why you should believe in consent
Of course the end justifies the means
Societal diagnosis: The loss of the concept of Consent
Sheltering children is harmful
Power doesn't corrupt you, idiot
An attempt at a complete formulation of the ethics of ownership
Why coaching in competitive games is wrong even if it's explicitly allowed
The nitty-gritty of charity: equality, not selflessness
Abortion is Difficult, by Michael Huemer (external; he covers the issue well enough that I don't intend to write my own.)
Protagonist versus leftist ideas of bigotry
Normativity reduces and why being wrong makes you a bad person
The soul, what it is, and why it's the only thing that exists
How sleep, death, and dreams work when consciousness is completely immaterial
The legitimate answer to the Cartesian evil spirit scenario
A few miscellaneous insights about human psychology
The dangerous propaganda of "mental health"
Media violence does not breed violence
Stockholm syndrome is human nature
Societal diagnosis: Group identity
Societal diagnosis: Personal determinism
The problem with the language of rights
"Fuck" isn't a bad word, but "good" is.
Righteous rules don't need to be specified
A Thought on the psychology of theism
This page was last modified 2021-10-18 12:32 (UTC).
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