One of the blog readers has asked the following question: What would be the Epicurean solution to parents who send their children to conversion therapy to try and change the gender of their transgender children? Should it be banned? Personally I think it should as in my opinion, its basically child abuse. I totally agree …
When Apple installed a “kill switch” on its phones the number of phone thefts plummeted. And then a light came on. Wait a moment. If Apple can remotely disable a phone, why can’t armaments manufacturers install similar switches to disable serious military weapons? When the ISIS forces captured Mosul earlier this year they captured a …
The following comment was sent in by Owen Bell. Owen agreed to let me use it as a formal posting: “The reason why people don’t identify with Epicureanism (assuming they’ve even heard of it) is because philosophy is seen as a subordinate discipline: too subjective to be scientific yet in too constant a state of …
“It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can get yourself back”. Mick Jagger
“When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state”. Alexis de Toqueville
