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The Sky Is Falling, But Not For The Reason You Think, Mark Y. Herring
The Sky Is Falling, But Not For The Reason You Think, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
n case you missed it, the world is about to come to an end. I’m not a scryer or a doomsayer, nor am I especially prescient. But judging from the hysteria surrounding the Apple phone/FBI case, one can only conclude that the world is coming to an end, the sky is falling, civilization as we know it is coming to an end if Apple loses its gallant fight for the little millions who bought its phones.
Little Red Herrings:Charlie Hebdo And The Moral Equivalence Fallacy, Mark Y. Herring
Little Red Herrings:Charlie Hebdo And The Moral Equivalence Fallacy, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo in Paris kicked off what we hope is not a harbinger of 2015 things to come. The massacre by radical Muslims of some dozen employees of the satirical Paris magazine has set off a wave of newfound “freedom of expression” advocates. And so it should. While freedom of expression does not mean that one must accept what another says, it does vouchsafe the right to say it.