... Yes, many "respectable" people bellyache that the government is not imprisoning enough people. Often (as here) they want people imprisoned not for any
... No; it's worse. After all, Julian Assange hasn't even done anything wrong (*). -C (* With respect to his role at Wikileaks.)
... Szasz is fairly emphatic about both halves of the formula. On the other hand, I don't think John Hinckley (say) could be accurately described as having
... I do not have any formal medical training, correct. ... Well, no. As I stated in my previous post, the three books I listed are three books that one who is
... Marja, I don't think I disagree with you about any of that, but I'm not sure I understand the utility of calling the phobia a "disease" and the extinction
... Mike, I wasn't asking you for a compare-and-contrast list of differences between Ayn Rand and Emma Goldman. I presume that they had different birthdays as
In LeftLibertarian2@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Katz ... "I don't think anybody would deny that when you send chickens out of your barnyard in the
... Mike, Well, no, that's not what I said. I'd correct you about what you got wrong (it has to do with the difference between psychiatric "symptoms" and
... That depends on what you're trying to determine. I think that the kind of knowledge psychiatrists claim to be expert in is actually a mish-mash of
... I agree that some people may be systematically better at doing, or at thinking about, morality and ethics than other people. Maybe this is "expertise" in a