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It is now time for you to make up your mind. There is an important topic you have avoided discussing so far, and it is high time you did it now. The topic you need to talk about is restriction you put on farmers, preventing them from selling their land for non-agricultural purposes. No, please [...]
Amit says “it’s common sense that you have to judge actions on the basis of their outcome, and not their intent.” No it is not common sense and it is not even true. It is one thing to say that policies should by judged by their outcomes rather than by the intention of their proponents. [...]
After some thinking, I have found the cause of unhappiness. It is nuclear weapons. The economics and psychology behind my finding is simple. The reason for your not figuring it out is also related to the reason why we are unhappy. People have long noted that money does not make us happy. This is true, [...]
As promised, this post will consist of unabashed speculation about where the taboo on incest comes from. You might know about the Kibbutzim – the great Israeli experiments in communal living. Though as societies they did not do badly, as experiments in socialism, they were failures. A lot of studies were conducted by many learned [...]
Of course, the standard libertarian answer to this question is, “If no non-consenting third party is harmed in the action, there is nothing wrong with it.” Right? Wrong! I know that many libertarians, including my fellow Cartelians say such a thing lazily, but the precise way of saying it is: “If no non-consenting third party [...]
OK, so I promise to return and then go off for more than a month without posting. Forgive me, for I have been very very busy. In fact, I still am. But I shall still make an attempt to restart blogging. For those who need to be reminded, I had promised to answer interesting questions, [...]
So I disappear without an explanation and the only hints that I continue to exist are two words of wisdom that I unload on fellow Cartelians, ([1], [2]) both discussing the question of human sanity. I know that this is sufficient reason for people to get worried, but fear not. I am very much here, [...]
Sorry for the delay. No, the promise was not an April fool’s joke. I just got busy with a lot of stuff, one of them being my flight back to India. So on to the first question, by froginthewell, who asked way back: Would you say there should be a legislation that will punish this [...]
Arzan pointed me to this post on the newly launched Mumbai Metblogs, talking of the plight of some Akbarallys employees who one day found that they did not have jobs any more, because the branch shut shop. This is a fairly common story. I have some personal experience of that. In 1993, I went home [...]
This is an open thread. Is there anything you’d like me to make a post on? Have you ever pondered on a problem and thought “I wonder what that pompous, arrogant and condescending Cartelian Ravi would say about this?” Ask it here. If there is any topic from my previous posts where you’ve thought that [...]
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