Category: Crime and Punishment
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Extremism and Leftist Projection: Capital Punishment
This is the second in a series. (The first is here.) You will have noticed that leftists call us extremists though there is nothing extreme about our views. They are all of them moderate. What our political enemies do is to project their extremism into us. Projection is a well-known psychological defense mechanism. What I…
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Collective Guilt
Are there such things as collective guilt and collective responsibility? In Black Reparations, I put forth the following principle: Only those who are victims of a crime are entitled to reparations for the crime, and only those who are the perpetrators of a crime are obliged to pay reparations for it. A commenter, not impressed…
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Ann Coulter on Daniel Penny
A characteristic of leftists and so-called 'progressives' is that in their typical knee-jerk (reflexive as opposed to reflective) style, they reliably take the side of criminals while attacking the decent and law-abiding. If you don't understand this, you will never understand the Left and how pernicious leftists are. Having infiltrated the Democrat Party, they are…
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Masculinity
Out and about yesterday, I caught a bit of Dennis Prager's radio show. He defended Daniel Penny's behavior in his confrontation with Jordan Neely as masculine, using the word correctly. In our infantilized, feminized, and left-dominated and therefore crime-tolerant society, Penny's behavior will be called toxically masculine by our political enemies. But to anyone who…
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On Blaming the Victim
Top o' the Stack.
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Hey Jackass!
Statistics on crime in Sweet Home Chicago. "Illustrating Chicago values." By cops, for cops. Fascinating analyses of shot placement, etc. Where do Chicagoans get shot? How many in the face? How many in the head but not in the face? How many in the chest, the buttocks? Useful information if you plan to sally out…
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Crime and ‘Equity’
On Biden's watch, crime is surging. It is easy to see why. For the 'woke' Left, the achieving of 'equity' is a high if not the highest desideratum. 'Equity' is wokespeak for equality of outcome. To achieve 'equity' in apprehension, prosecution, sentencing, and incarceration of blacks as compared to whites, given the much greater criminality…
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Willie Horton Revisited
I posted the following on my Facebook page this morning. Go there for my political linkage and 'rantage.' …………………………………… I have a confession to make. I voted for Michael Dukakis in 1988! Do I have an excuse? If I have one, it is that my 'default setting' is apolitical. I'm a metaphysician by inclination, and…
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Fetal Rights and the Death Penalty: Consistent or Inconsistent?
Substack latest. Is it consistent to support both fetal rights and the moral acceptability of capital punishment? There are two senses of ‘consistency’ at issue, and in neither sense is there any inconsistency.
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Contraindicated: Resisting Arrest
It may be harmful to your health. The meme below makes a very important point. Everyone, but blacks in particular, need to learn that the police have legitimate authority and that their commands must be obeyed. Not to do so is not only illegal but highly imprudent. Michael Brown, Daunte Wright, and Adam Toledo all…
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Moral Failure and Moral Capacity
Not being capable of truly horrendous crimes and sins, we moral mediocrities sin in a manner commensurate with our limitations. It follows that we are all equally sinful in that we all sin to the limit of our capacity. It is not that we always sin, but that when we do, we sin only as…
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Almost Mugged in the Big Easy
I came close to being mugged in New Orleans' French Quarter in '90 or '91. I was there to read a paper at an American Philosophical Association meeting. Early one morning I left the hotel to sample the local color and grab some breakfast. Striding along Bourbon street, I noticed a couple of black dudes…
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Three Arguments against Capital Punishment Demolished
Substack latest
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Chutzpah
The leftist mayor of one of our most crime-ridden cities demanded police protection en route to a demonstration at which she joined in the vilification of the police.
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Should Felons Have the Right to Vote?
Obviously not, as I argue at Substack. But at this late date in the Decline of the West, appeals to reason are becoming increasingly pointless. From a purely theoretical point of view, it is fascinating to watch one's country enter the ash can of history. It is a philosophical moment inasmuch as "The owl of…