Tenet # 3, and perhaps the others won’t be quite so difficult

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Your Humble Blogger is still on about: 3. The superiority of liberty to equality in the hierarchy of human values and social purposes. Am I getting close to being able to either agree or disagree with this sentiment? Let’s see…

More responses to responses

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Another of my friends writes in reference my having recently said “I suspect I make the same logical errors myself. I find my nature changeable, so I believe human nature is changeable.” “How is human nature different from human personality?”…

Gandhi, Jed, and High Hopes

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Jed writes: Is it better for a Gandhi to expect the best from people — in hopes that they’ll rise to his expectations — or to have more realistic expectations, in hopes that they won’t give up on the whole…

Another thought on Human Nature

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I’ve just been reading Gandhi (and it’s a good day to read Gandhi), and was reminded of something I could have said in my note on Tenet 1. Gandhi is very interesting for me to read, because I admire him…

Tenet # 3, part ii of at least iii, and looking like iv…

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3. The superiority of liberty to equality in the hierarchy of human values and social purposes. As I was saying… If I say that liberty is superior to equality, I am not saying that liberty is inherently better than equality,…

Sunset in Baghdad

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It’s more or less 6:30pm in Baghdad, unless I’m very much mistaken, and the sun’s been down for twenty minutes or so. It looks like there may be war before dawn. Or maybe tomorrow – same bagh-time, same bagh-channel. I…

Conservative Tenet # 3

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3. The superiority of liberty to equality in the hierarchy of human values and social purposes. This is a very tricky one. Of course, most of them are tricky, as is most serious thought. Does that mean Your Humble Blogger…

Fish Story

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In Which Your Humble Blogger links to a story about a talking fish.

Tenet # 2 (revised)

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A correspondent has written to call Your Humble Blogger on some rhetorical sloppiness in my comment on the Second Conservative Tenet. I could plead that I simply passed along Mr. Rossiter’s sloppiness, but in fact, if I don’t at least…