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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.

• CELEBRATION AND INCITEMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 11, 2023 • ( 1 )

  Amnesty International has always been notoriously silent about Israeli apartheid, because, understandably enough, it doesn’t want to alienate its sizeable Jewish donor base. It ignores a relatively few injustices so it can attract the resources to fight far more. Well,… Read More ›

• ANTISEMITISM

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 11, 2023 • ( 5 )

  There’s a pattern of fallacious reasoning in political discourse – I don’t know what to call it, but I’m open to suggestions – that goes like this. 1) If I refuse – and I do – to condemn the Hamas… Read More ›

• MORE MATH AND A MODEST PROPOSAL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on December 1, 2023 • ( 2 )

  After seven weeks of ‘precision’ bombing, the IDF, by its own reckoning, has managed to kill 1,000 Hamas soldiers. So only another 34,000 to go. So keeping the kill rate constant, it should only take another four and half years… Read More ›

• SHAME

  By paulosophicalvimplications on November 3, 2023 • ( 3 )

  Of the 16 million Jews in the world, just under half live in Israel. Of the other 8.5 million, most support the State of Israel, in the sense that they regard it as a mustering point “come the next pogrom”…. Read More ›

• THE HECKLER’S VETO

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 27, 2023 • ( 2 )

  I’ve thought long and hard about this problem, but apparently not hard enough, because I haven’t come up with a solution to it, and I’m beginning to despair that I ever will. As I’ve noted elsewhere, your freedom of expression… Read More ›

• JUST DO THE MATH

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 27, 2023 • ( 3 )

  At any given time, there are about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, which means at least 50,000 live births per year, which means about an extra, say, 24,000 young men reaching fighting age per year. So even if only a… Read More ›

• THE JUNKED AND THE UNJUNKED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 12, 2023 • ( 4 )

  Some time ago the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia published an article by Rebecca Tuvel in which she argued that, given the argumentation involved, if one can be transgendered, likewise can one be transracial, and if one can’t be transracial then… Read More ›

• A PUZZLE ABOUT THE MEDIA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 10, 2023 • ( 8 )

  Last Saturday, October 7th, 600 people – and still counting – died in a Hamas breakout from Gaza. And on the same morning, 2000 people – and still counting – died in an earthquake in Afghanistan. The breakout dominated the… Read More ›

• DON’T ASK DON’T TELL

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 10, 2023 • ( 2 )

  Right from the get-go last Saturday morning, it’s been dubbed Israel’s 9/11. Yes there are parallels. But among them is the assiduous avoidance, in the largely pro-Zionist media, of asking what have the Israelis been doing to the Palestinians in… Read More ›

• KATHLEEN MASSEY

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 15, 2023 • ( 8 )

  For those of us intent on alerting those who’ve yet to be disabused of the positive effects of wokeism on the university, the Widdowson affair is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest, which came to my attention only… Read More ›