Archive for June 2021
Rule of Thumb: Rights
If you want a rule of thumb to determine whether or not a proposed right is really a right, here is a simple test: If it requires anything of anyone else, requires any other person to give or do something, then it is not your right. To live is a right. To make other people…
Read MoreWhat is a Right?
(It is a perennial amusement to me to watch a person try to derive the notion of rights without reference to God.) What is a right? “Something a person should have, or should be able to do.” According to whom? “Well, you know, according to the majority.” So if a majority agree that Jews don’t…
Read MoreWhat is faith? And why, when people speak of faith, they usually mean courage.
Faith is simply your reliance on work already done. Consider that you are building a house, or (if that’s a bit ambitious for you) a piece of furniture. You have designed it on paper over the past several days, carefully diagramming and plotting, determining what pieces you will need, the dimensions of each piece, and…
Read MoreIs there any such thing as an opinion?
Opinions are the indulgence of an undisciplined mind—one might say, if one was trying deliberately to be provocative. To be more precise, though, one should say, “If you could ever nail down exactly what an opinion is and find one in nature, it would be purely the indulgence of an undisciplined mind.” Seriously, though, I…
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