Reader Alex Parrish, observing recent shenanigans covered on the blog, writes with the following amusing observation:
Years from now, when Philosophy departments include The Collected Tweets of Rachel McKinnon on their syllabi, older generations of philosophers are going to look like fools.
Why did Judith Jarvis Thomson ever present a defense of abortion? Wouldn’t it have been better to just say that she can’t be expected to do the emotional labor of explaining why pro-lifers were wrong?
Why did Rawls ever engage with Nozick when Nozick’s speech constituted literal violence against the poor? Nozick clearly didn’t deserve to be treated like a normal member of the profession.
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