Category: Philosophy

  • Human Rights and Immigrants

    So tell me why a human being deserves rights? What’s the answer in your gut? Is it because we have community and institutions that are set up to protect our rights? We deserve them because we were granted them by the rest of humanity? What if the world wasn’t so kind? Would we still deserve…

  • Don’t police the boycott

    My reaction to people trying to shut down the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for showing Eurovision a few weeks ago: Stop telling other people what they need to boycott. You boycott what you like, but don’t make other people feel bad when there are 100s of things you’re not boycotting. When you have successfully cut out…