Tag: India

  • The Problem of Natural Evil, Charity, and Free Trade

    The Problem of Natural Evil, Charity, and Free Trade

    The standard response to the problem of evil is that evil is the result of human willing: thus the Holocaust or American racism cannot be laid at the feet of an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfectly benevolent God. But I think this seriously ignores the problem of natural evil.

  • Caplan’s Pacifism

    Bryan Caplan echoes my own pragmatic/consequentialist arguments for pacifism : P1: The immediate costs of war are clearly awful. P2: The long-run benefits of war are highly uncertain. P3: For a war to be morally justified, its long-run benefits have to be substantially larger than its short-run costs. C: [B]efore you kill innocent people, you should be reasonably sure that your…

  • Mumbai attacks on Boston Globe’s Big Picture

    Mumbai Under Attack. We know so little about what is happening there that these photographs are almost better than the print journalism. Beware: many of the photographs are difficult to see.