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https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/so-your-husband-is-becoming-a-woman-advice-from-women-whove-been-there/ One of the things that can be observed with serious addiction cases is the gradual disintegration of personality. In effect, the addict's body and personality become mere...

To start, some very obvious things that you already know. Human beings are a pair bonding species. Some other mammals are too, but human beings especially, it is a deeply embedded instinct, so deeply embedded that when you see human beings reject that instinct you know something went wrong...

Speech has always involved consequences, but in the past these consequences were primarily local and involved direct social relationships. Scale changed everything, and meant that any organized group anywhere could target and harass speakers it didn't like. At the same time a new...

You should probably look around you at the way businesses operate, the causes they endorse, and the morality they promote. Do the virtues of your culture come from the scramble for personal gain? This is the "greed is good" philosophy that many conservatives are programmed with. It takes a...

The whole point of a conservative government is to preserve order by regulating behavior--regulating through social custom, law, and restraint on commerce. This is not socializing or spreading the cost. Privatization itself is the bizarre idea that it all works out for the best when...

Libertarians get more wrong than right. My assessment of their failings is as follows: their faith in unguided economic processes is naive their skepticism of organized human behavior is dogmatic their understanding of social behavior is almost nil their understanding of social hierarchies is...

The error at the heart of all libertarian thought is that the individual is the smallest and primary unit of society. The libertarian consistently frames social and moral imperatives in terms of individual needs and desires and freedoms. He posits that society is the sum total of individuals...