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http://ift.tt/1jp0Dh6 Your evening Radical Scare cartoon.

“Dogmatic” is a property of the reasoning process leading to accepting a belief or defending it from criticism. It’s not a property of the belief itself. The fact that a belief involves making a very general claim, for example, or a very bold one, does not mean that the belief is (therefore) necessarily dogmatic. If you don’t know what arguments a person would give for their beliefs, then you don’t yet have any idea whether or not their beliefs are dogmatic. #PhilosophicalPSA

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This is what I do on my breaks between blocks of work. http://ift.tt/1o5laYS

lol read Turing

(The soundtrack for tonight’s ALL Distro late-night printing-and-packing jag is the “Bad Romance” / “Fever” playlist. Every cover picked up off the printer is a twirl and a dance step.)

wrote a Perl script for srs use today. #throwbacksunday

lol read Pessoa

When I’ve criticized government policing or call for the abolition of police forces as such, the response I’d often get from cop-defenders is to insist I couldn’t be serious. And to back up that claim by saying that if I didn’t avail myself of the police’s “services” that’s just fine by them, and then asking, with a great deal of sarcastic scorn, what I’d do or who I’d call “as soon as” I found myself in an emergency. (The idea being that obviously I’d call the police. And that obviously if I called the police for help in an emergency, that would somehow imply that I’m consenting to their whole program of legal force, whatever the situation.) So when anarchists specifically refuse to call in the police in an emergency, and do everything in their power to make sure that people can get help without the police entering their spaces, do you think this will convince cop-defenders to admit that we don’t want cops’ “services”? (Ha, ha, it’s a trick question. The state, by definition, cannot take “No” for an answer, and there is nothing that will ever convince a defender of the police to admit that people don’t consent to be policed. Therein lies the point: to dismiss any possibility of refusal apriori.) Props to the Red & Black. #AbolishThePolice