Adam LeeThe Probability Broach: Shame, shame
"It's a recent and modern innovation in ethics to hold that you can't punish people for their opinions, no matter how offensive."
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2026/01/23/tpb-shame-shame/
The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs
Building weapons of mass destruction with no oversight. What could possibly go wrong?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2026/01/16/tpb-backyard-wmds/
The Probability Broach: Non-state violence
Is it only governments that wage war and commit violence? You wish.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2026/01/09/tpb-non-state-violence/
The Probability Broach: Blue sky
We owe many of our most valuable breakthroughs to pure curiosity-driven research that wasn’t undertaken to serve a commercial purpose.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2026/01/02/tpb-blue-sky/
The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius
The persistent libertarian delusion that one smart guy can do everything by himself.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/12/26/tpb-the-myth-of-the-lone-genius/
The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?
"You can’t just look at one side of the ledger and assume all the money you spent on compliance is wasted. What dollar value do you place on having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, healthy food to eat that isn’t tainted or adulterated, and roads that aren’t littered with the smoking wrecks of unsafe vehicles?"
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/12/19/tpb-what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us/
The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing
John Henry would've been pleased.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/12/12/tpb-robots-do-nothing/
The Probability Broach: Too much freedom
Nothing's more libertarian than a Dust Bowl.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/12/05/tpb-too-much-freedom/
The Probability Broach: Fair cop
"Why would an accused criminal be so obliging as to put up a bond, if there’s no authority that can force them to do so?"
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/11/28/tpb-fair-cop/
The Probability Broach: Economies of scale
"Smith doesn’t want readers to picture a cyberpunk dystopia where colossal, amoral megacorps carve up the world, and most people are impoverished peons who live in company-town slums and spend their lives in indentured servitude to their employers."
https://freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/2025/11/21/tpb-economies-of-scale/
