Boris Yakubchik
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Boris Yakubchik commented on What is morality? on December 26, 2008, 4:01 PM
Awesome video!Viewers should take a look at literature on "experimental economics", there are various experiments that were set up to see how people behave in various conditions and whether they would punish those that didn't cooperate.
Boris Yakubchik commented on The Definition of Self-Righteousness on December 26, 2008, 3:42 PM
Re: BeanYou should watch a longer talk Haidt gave at The New Yorker where he mentions that liberals are actually better at taking different points of view, and that is clearly something conservatives (and liberals that don't do it enough) can benefit from. I think Haidt's statement at the end of the video is an exaggeration: though a world with features he describes may be full of "chaos and social disillusion" it need not be so, it's entirely possible for people to find groups that make them feel connected and not at all anomic.
Boris Yakubchik commented on Michael Walzer on Just War and Terrorism on October 28, 2009, 11:03 PM
Waltzer of course doesn't present an argument here - but just says what he believes. I can't quite see how an argument claiming terrorism is NEVER justified can be made. Perhaps counter-examples are intuition-pulling and not arguments, still I can imagine situations where terrorism seems morally permissible. For those interested on the topic, I urge you to read Jeff McMahan's work; he is a philosopher who carefully argues for his positions and has much to say about these issues.