The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

In order to be "good" we must be making a choice – a choice based upon logical, higher-order thought as opposed to instinctive reaction/habit/lower level heuristic thought. Most of the time, we do not make choices – we act from habit, we react in accordance to the rules of lower-level thought.…

Tom, Thank you for allowing me to respond. You raise a very good question; to which, fortunately, there is a very good, and simple, answer: the natural law! At the risk of acting like the dinner guest who offends his host, I fear this is why I can not support completely your…

Oliver Wendell Holmes “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” When I studied jurisprudence at university, I was – I discovered – an American Realist. In executive summary, American Realists define law as nothing more than a prediction of what rules the courts in…

I’ve tried. I really have. I have taken a break from the blogs and most conventional news media since Google Reader stopped working. I thought I might feel better about the world. I aspired to the blissful ignorance if not the shameful indifference in which most of my fellow citizens…

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