Recent content by Saz Chan >^-^<

I certainly place myself in the first camp, which is unusual as a Brit. Fortunately (in my opinion), our free speech laws have become ever so slightly looser since 2013, in which the legal definition of what constitutes hate speech has been limited from "abusive, threatening or insulting" to...

It's no joke. Jobs are for losers.

Once I was having a drink with a friend of mine at the pub in between lectures. We had an hour's break, perfect for a wee dram of whiskey. Being first year students, we were pretty intellectually snobby, and were spending our break as all the cool kids do: talking about philosophy. A postman...

I'm not sure how all of that coheres with what you said here: Or here: But anyway. I'm sure you're not suggesting that Obamacare caused the reduction in unemployment, since the UK unemployment rate followed a very similar trend since 2010. And that being the case, what makes you think that...

You'll see from the context, I was pointing out that nobody benefits in the situation I described. The problem is that this situation is very common. That the 50-employee threshold is a bad idea is not particularly controversial here, it seems to me. That's why Sanders fluffed it during the...

Precisely this kind of vacuous moralising that the far left engages in so as to avoid discussing the substance of the issue. I know exactly what "you" (I assume you mean Democrats) want. The mistake is to think that Obamacare is some sort of step in the right direction. It simply will not do...

I hate to beat a dead horse, but I think the point still needs to be made that healthcare should not be a business expense. If you believe it should be, then presumably you would say to the Salon owner, as Sanders did, that she should be furnishing all her employees with insurance already. This...

So what happened to "IT IS A PRICE WORTH PAYING FOR!"? I thought the question at hand was whether stifling the expansion of small business and job-creation is a price worth paying for requiring employers to furnish their workers with insurance? It seemed to be my answering "no" to this question...

If you look at the question that the good lady asked Sanders in part 2 of the debate, you'll see that she was reluctant to hire more than 50 people, because it was simply uneconomical to do so. Once she hired her 50th employee, she would have to supply health insurance for all. So what does she...

Thanks for this. Watching the debate with my cat and a lovely mug of coffee. As a Brit, I won't comment on the state of American healthcare, but I am deeply dissatisfied with the NHS, my own country's universal healthcare system. A service that is offered for any reason other than profit is...

By way of update, in recent days I have encountered numerous times a particularly annoying kind of fallacy. If I had to categorise it, I would describe it as a kind of appeal to authority. But, unlike most appeals to authority, it does not appeal to scholarship, so much as the experiences of a...

The bottom two lines are beautifully written, but the top lines are almost unintelligible. Better luck next time.

Sure. PM me something on feminist epistemology, if you would.

I don't get it.

Actually I've had a paper published in which I write in response to Hume. In what way am I not intellectually cooperative?