Tag: India
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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.
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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…
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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.