There is no higher test of ‘things as they should be’ (justice) than logical necessity, systemic necessity. Consequently, justice done to the unjust may seem like injustice, and be interpreted by them as injustice.

The official reality became Where’s Wally; contrived to look informative to the ignorant and to look contrived to the informed.

The issue with Bitcoin is rather obvious: why invest in “digital gold” when you can buy real gold, which is also easier to use than Bitcoin. The idea of spending as much of good money on a digital token as the price of one kilogram of gold is mind boggling.

In our time every continent, every island, every country has strategic, economic and military significance. The idea that indigenous tribes could be “decolonized”, returned to their natural state on their ancestral land and then left alone by everyone else is preposterous. “Decolonisation” is just a euphemism for colonisation by a new master.

A system that guarantees only that people ought to be treated ‘equally’ is not therefore ethical, just or right. It is possible to treat everyone equally wrongly, unjustly and unethically. In order to be right the system must treat everyone equally right.

People do not like to think; thinking is uncomfortable, hard work. People just want to possess the right conclusions without having to think. This is why people get upset when someone argues against their conclusions and concludes that they are wrong. They feel coerced to simultaneously accept that they do not posses the attributes they value about themselves and to expand energy, endure discomfort in having to develop those attributes again. For most people it is a state of panic, a loss of foundation, a crisis. They would rather unfriend you than think. Some would rather kill you than think.

The problem with Kantian ethics (the categorical imperative) is that it assumes that Humanity (defined as conscious rational agency) is a uniformly apportioned property, that it does not admit of degrees, that each individual of the species Homo sapiens is equally rational, therefore of equal moral status. If we take a step back in the chain of development of the categorical imperative, the last solid point is that we must respect and value rational agency, which is humanity, wherever it is manifested, therefore we must value humanity ‘in principle’, but if the property of humanity is unequally distributed, then the categorical imperative does not tell us much. The asymmetries in rational agency need accounting for for any moral law to be practically meaningful.

There are 0.6 ounces of silver in an average solar panel. At this stage all of this metal is lost, not recycled, when a panel is decommissioned.

My preferred medium is text because it introduces a gap between thought and its dissemination, a space for reflexive awareness. Writing down our thoughts is already a mode of editing, questioning and perfecting our expression before it is interpreted by others. Nobody can speak as good as they write, and when your life depends on the message, you shut up and write.

Oh no! I just missed the “Marxist Conference” in Melbourne. I could have given them some bones to chew, and I am sure all of my former “anarchist” friends would be there, like Pi O!

The doctrine of subjectively determined gender identity, exemplified by the slogan "trans-women are women", discriminates against and invalidates the identity of those whose gender and gender expression are based on the innate sense of difference from the opposite sex. In essence, proponents of 'gender theory' are implicitly invalidating the gender identity of most people by insisting that males can be women and females can be men. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial

Gender and racial equality are not virtues in a corrupt, abusive system. They amount to equal oppression, equal injustice.

It is prudent to assume that every media event that provokes strong emotions is an intentional provocation. This may not always be the case, but it is always a good practice to consider how our emotional reactions can be exploited to subvert our reasoning and cause us to act contrary to our best interest.

Plastics have the same energy content per mass as petrol. Our landfills are full of recoverable energy. Instead of dumping plastic in the ground we should be burning it to generate electricity. This would also prevent this waste permeating the environment as micro-plastics.

This is going on my reading list. Looks sensible. Partitioning of people into groups and deciding whom to save on the basis of the kind of group they belong to contradicts the premise that we ought to have equal concern for each individual of equal moral status. https://philpapers.org/rec/MUOECF

The problem with the epistemic logic of Randomised Controlled Trials is that it concludes that a drug is effective based on its average effect on many different people, assuming that the ‘many people’ is analogous to any prospective individual who may be prescribed the drug in the future. In essence, it treats all humans bodies as fungible, as bio-medically identical, which is of course just a commercially convenient fiction; an ecological fallacy. It is therefore false to claim that a particular drug is safe and effective FOR YOU. The most that can be inferred from RCTs, assuming it is an honest and well designed RCT, is that a drug is effective for most people in particular circumstances in a given time frame. This does not tell us anything about the overall health outcomes of the ‘most’ patients, unless the RCT continued to the end of their life.

There is no War, just friends in high places moving their pawns. It is a friendly game, but not from the perspective of the pawns.

The corporate media will never publicly call me an antivaxxer because it would have the effect of popularising ideas that delegitimise them.

Opinions (professional or not) are a confession of ignorance. We have opinions only when we do not know, cannot approximate or prove.