The BBC reports that 21 Hindus accused of killing 12 Muslims in the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat will be retried after they were acquitted last June. It is good that there will be a re-trail, but I do not believe that this will do very much in the way of bringing justice for the [...]
Scott Martens at Fistfull of Euros has a nice post about the relationship between means and ends. Via Explananda, where Chris has written his own post on means-ends relationships. I have always felt that one of the strongest arguments for pacifism is that, while the end of “peace” is used to justify most modern wars, [...]
Here is a PDF of the actual document, marked “For the President Only” and dated “6 August 2001.” Read it for yourself. Read it again. I don’t see how any warning about the impending attack could have been clearer or more explicit than what I read here. Maybe the real problem here is the part [...]