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Ethics R Us.

Cambridge MA
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For those of you who are unfamiliar, behold my lovely bike whose battery died. 😢

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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
The time I shaved my head because I was getting harrased too much. (Blurry. Oh well. Also, about 6 weeks post-cut.)
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
October 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I mean, look at this chart. "What are these non-working men living on? Some are receiving government aid via disability insurance. Mostly, however, they’re being supported by “cohabitants”: Typically they’re living with their parents, or relying on income earned by their wives or other partners." 😬
September 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
PPPS: It's as though the "who espoused violence" part is invisible to them, but oddly not to me. 🤔
September 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
OK, so the link does not cause the post to show up. Here it is:
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your periodic Baltimore homicide update: Baltimore had six (6) homicides in all of August. Last year, Baltimore had 18 homicides in August; the year before that, 29. And those were *good* years.
September 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Also, they were probably not drug smugglers at all.
September 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I misremembered them slightly.
September 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Look at my maternal great-great grandmother, back on the farm in Dalecarlia, which is NOT in America. My mom only emigrated after she married my dad in 1955.
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The paraphrased bit, quoted in full. (It's not better, just slightly different.)
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Very confusing to philosophers.
August 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Amazingly, I agree with David Brooks today. He quotes these answers to the question "How do you fall in love?", and before I read on I thought: but these are all about how someone sees you, and that's all wrong.
August 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's hard to find, since it's buried in Derek Parfit's On What Matters, and is moreover entitled 'Humanity as End in Itself', instead of something useful like 'Before You Construct A Trolley-like Problem, Read This'. But the excerpt below will give you (or Dan Davies) a sense of why.
August 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Unclear motives? Srsly?
August 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Example (one of many): he says he's not talking about "political Philosophers" (i.e., the people who study what Rawls actually said", but about "liberal politicians" who recall something about Rawls from "a Political Philosophy 101 class."
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Your periodic update on Baltimore's homicides. This time I've included the monthly chart as well. It shows that so far this August there have been TWO (2) homicides.

For comparison, in August 2019 there were 31. We're only 19 days into August, but still.
August 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just for the sake of completeness, here's the relevant definition of significant bodily injury. Try to imagine a Subway sandwich causing any of these things. (I guess it could if it were shot from a cannon at great speed, or maybe attached to an anvil.)
August 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm trying and failing to understand the felony assault charge. From DC law:
August 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Unfortunate autocorrect of the day:
August 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
DC Crime statistics as of today:

mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime
August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Since Trump just mentioned Baltimore and how much worse it's getting, here are Baltimore's actual homicide statistics:
August 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have moved, but I don't think I'll be posting frequent updates on my new home:
August 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM