{"id":2680,"date":"2021-03-10T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/should-felons-have-the-right-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T09:33:57","slug":"should-felons-have-the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/should-felons-have-the-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Felons Have the Right to Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Obviously not, as <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/should-felons-have-the-right-to-vote?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=copy\">I argue<\/a> at <em>Substack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">But at this late date in the Decline of the West, appeals to reason are becoming increasingly pointless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">From a purely theoretical point of view, it is fascinating to watch one&#39;s country enter the ash can of history. It is a philosophical moment&#0160; inasmuch as &quot;The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.&quot; (Hegel) Some consolation may be derived therefrom.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Unfortunately, we are not mere spectators of life&#39;s parade; we are condemned to march in it as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Having given up polemics for Lent, I will say only this much to you who voted for the Senile Puppet: You have a lot to answer for.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#39;s country enter the ash can of history. It is a philosophical moment&#0160; inasmuch as &quot;The owl of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/should-felons-have-the-right-to-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should Felons Have the Right to Vote?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,304],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}