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Why Free Speech Is Vital

- March 09, 2021

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you have definitely seen those campus videos, wherein protesters (mainly people with nose rings and pink hair) act belligerently while screaming out “HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH,” or “HATE SPEECH WILL NOT BE TOLERATED HERE.” Now of course, the fact that there is a form of speech that is either hateful or offensive—or worse, both—is rather self-evident. But the solution to speech that you hate is not the cancellation of hate speech , but simply more speech . First, two reasons as to why the solution to hate speech is not to cancel the speech (which is just a euphemism for speech regulation . Hello Orwell) are as follows: A.) It is tremendously difficult, one may argue even impossible, to define hate speech, and definitions are actually very important when trying to regulate something. B.) Who defines hate? Does it sound even remotely appealing to have other people, a bureaucrac

Meaning From Within (A College Essay)

- February 12, 2021

Blurred Perception of Happiness Humanity has always yearned profoundly for its sense of meaning and happiness; the only question that begs answering then is whether or not the individual himself constitutes that which he longs for, or will he merely allow the mob to indoctrinate him upon what he must desire? Modern civilization has quite a disheartening definition for the thought of happiness: something acquirable through external factors. In other words—man’s acknowledgment that his happiness is outside of his control when he constitutes happiness as something that must be attained extrinsically. Should happiness be constituted by such a definition, how then can humanity reconcile itself with the tragedy of existence if its counterpart—joy and happiness—is without arm’s reach? Schools of thought such as Stoicism, Christianity, Daoism, and the philosophical inquiry of Existentialism are all detached from defining happiness under such superficialities. What the individual must

Truth, One Step Away From Hell

- January 05, 2021

Three Philosophy by Samvel Marutyan Reality, the state of existence not under the sovereignty of any human being. For far too long have men pushed for the notion of bending reality in accordance to whatever narrative is desired by an individual; white lies, saving face, protection from the fire of the moment—besides, how is one tiny lie going to hurt anybody? “Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.” That quote is from neuroscientist Sam Harris’ book “Lying,” and in it Sam covers every aspect of the act of lying; white lies, big lies, little lies, and fundamentally concluding with the notion that no amount of lying will do anybody any good. In fact, Sam argues that it will do more than that for it will most definitely catastrophize any dilemma. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once s

On the Necessity to Cultivate Strength

- January 01, 2021

The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (1818) So much of today’s inclinations dive deep into the notion that people should be more congenial to their fellowmen, hence the ever so enticing sentiment “be nice, there is already so much hate in the world.” This too, however, holds a great amount of morality and compassion for those inflicted by suffering. If we have witnessed a random stranger being harassed by others, would we not tell the perpetrators to stop whatever they are doing? Fundamentally branching from the former sentiment. Or perhaps you may have seen a loving friend, a family member, a former lover utter the words “I just don’t want you to be hurt.” However, to say that this perspective on human behavior is skin deep is an understatement; for if we wish there not to be any suffering for our fellowmen, do we also not wish for the withering of their beings? To desire a stress-free life is to also desire a rather dull and monotonous life. Seneca once said,

For Others Are Fools, Must You Be Too?

- December 04, 2020

"Le Désespéré (Edited) by Gustave Courbet" Oftentimes the notion of conformity is conflated with virtue; meaning the justification for an action is to simply forward the fact that it is done by others.

Self-Awareness Is Key

- October 30, 2020

"The Consciousness of the Unaware Individual" Growing up in the 21st century and saying that we have it so easy is one substantial understatement; information in mere seconds, food and a car ride in minutes, anything you could ever desire brought right there on your doorstep in a matter of moments. But amidst everything that we have, there is a saying that continues to echo within in loud volumes: “Tough men produce good times, good times produce weak men, weak men produce hard times, hard times produce tough men.” Kindly direct your attention to the second part of that sentence, good times produce weak men; t he ubiquity of cancel culture, safe-spaces, and “inclusive zones”—especially in North America—is impressive, it’s almost praiseworthy. But there is one characteristic that should be instilled into every young man and woman, one that would abruptly end (if not radically diminish) the prevalence of this writhing notion of an Orwellian world in our society: self-a

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