Do I agree that with privilege comes responsibility? The answer is no. I believe that responsibilities arise when one undertakes them voluntarily. I also believe that in the absence of explicit contracts, people who lecture other people on their "responsibilities" are almost always up to no good.
Steven E. LandsburgColleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.
Steven E. LandsburgTags: reading
A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.
Steven E. Landsburg...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....
Steven E. LandsburgTags: evolution
If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.
Steven E. LandsburgTags: economics clowns value baking olympics
If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading peaceful countries and seizing their assets? Most of us don't think that's a good idea, and not just because it might backfire. We don't think it's a good idea because we believe human beings have human rights, whatever their colour and wherever they live. Stealing assets is wrong, and so is stealing the right to earn a living, no matter where the victim was born.
Steven E. LandsburgTags: morality economics xenophobia free-trade
[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries
Steven E. LandsburgTags: economics
Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.
Steven E. LandsburgTags: humor economics-philosophy
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