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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I specialize in philosophy of war, game theory, contractarianism, and theodicy (the Problem of Evil). I am bald, fat, and ugly, but my wife loves me, so I don't care.

• THE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE STORY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Here’s another entry in the ongoing saga of news that isn’t. Some of my followers and even more of my readers live in the United States. Does that mean I’m trying to interfere in their upcoming presidential election? Well, I’m… Read More ›

• POLICING 101

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Poor people don’t have a lot. If they did, they wouldn’t be poor. As a result, their need to protect what little they have is greater than the need of those who have more to protect what they have. This… Read More ›

• THE BOUNTY STORY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 1, 2020 • ( 1 )

  During the 1980s, the U.S. financed, armed, and trained the Mujahideen in what proved to be their successful campaign to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. In other words, they paid the Mujahideen to kill Soviet soldiers. The Taliban, which… Read More ›

• THE NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE MANTRA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 30, 2020 • ( 1 )

  I wouldn’t have thought it necessary to weigh in on the civil unrest sweeping across the U.S., and now across the entire western world. I’d have thought it almost analytic that people who are pissed off, and are taking their… Read More ›

• GENDER DYSPHORIA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 28, 2020 • ( 3 )

  A few years back the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia published a paper by Rebecca Tuvel in which she wondered, if one can be trans-gendered, why not trans-racial? So one has to either deny one can be trans-gendered, or else deny that… Read More ›

• DOGWHISTLING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 25, 2020 • ( 1 )

  If I ask whether the blind date you’re setting me up with is good looking, and you answer that she has a wonderful personality, you’re not just saying something about her personality. Likewise, then, no one denies that all lives… Read More ›

• HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 23, 2020 • ( 3 )

  Let me give you a heads up. Whatever you’re most sensitive about, I’m probably going to be insensitive to it. This is regrettable, by which is meant it’s able to be regretted, but apparently not by me. Here I offer just… Read More ›

• MY PICK FOR VP

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 21, 2020 • ( 1 )

  If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the consistency of people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. So against a vigorous 73 year old, what do the Dems do? They put up a doddering 77 year old…. Read More ›

• THE DEVIL’S LAMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  They say the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. Not so. In fact his greatest frustration is that he can’t convince the world he does. I have a recently retired colleague for whom… Read More ›

• WHY I’M AN ANTI-ANTI-RACIST

  By paulosophicalvimplications on June 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Look, people, it’s not rocket science. Just as we humans know that dogs come in different shapes and sizes and colours, dogs know that humans come in different shapes and sizes and colours. But they don’t think to sort us… Read More ›