Comments on: List of Reasons Why Gunpowder Treason Should Be Forgot

By: Atreic

Atreic — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:35:37 +0000

Yes, I read the otherwise-sensible list and thought ‘huh? Have you ever been to fireworks in Britain’? I vaguely think the author has been to Ireland though – maybe it’s different over there?

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By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:15:25 +0000

I will certainly concede that it occasionally does, as one might expect making fireworks readily available to those of poor impulse control. Just last Wednesday we had one little scrote up our way throw a firework into a car (thankfully a parked one).

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:46:34 +0000

In my experience, council-organised public bonfire events tend to go off smoothly, with none of the antics you might expect from the inhabitants of “Knifecrime Island”. It’s the occasional non-state-sponsored groups of youngsters throwing fireworks around in the street you’ve got to look out for. Last year I saw the local youths stop a bus and nearly blow up a cyclist, the loveable scamps.

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:40:38 +0000

Point taken. I am just sad because I don’t have something as thorough as the anti-libertarian or anti-reactionary FAQs to link to when I can’t resist the urge to look at the endlessly recycled apologetics on strangenotions.com. It would be great to be able to say “the argument in this article is debunked in section 2.4.1″. I suppose I should man up and compile something myself. Or just do something useful with my time.

It seems like all Catholic philosophy eventually boils down to approvingly quoting Aquinas (or Plato).

What are the good reactionary ideas? To me they seem like cranks led by one particularly eloquent crank.

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By: Benquo

Benquo — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:36:10 +0000

You should not actually read the Summa – unless you’ve already read the Nicomachean Ethics, which is a lot shorter and more universal.

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By: Benquo

Benquo — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:35:03 +0000

You should read the Summa.

There, your fear has been realized, there’s no way to prevent that from happening, so there’s no longer any reason not to say things about natural law.

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By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:55:28 +0000

I suspect it varies greatly by region. Britain is a pretty diverse place, or so I’ve been told.

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By: Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:49:35 +0000

I was in Britain once on Guy Fawkes night, I encountered some hooliganism, and I figured it was unlikely I stumbled into the one pocket of it on an otherwise hooligan-free holiday. I Googled it to see if other people reported the same problem and some did, but obviously there’s some selection bias there, so having been corrected by actual Brits I admit I was wrong.

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By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:51:08 +0000

So far others have noted that your general claim that ” 2. In Britain it frequently devolves into hooliganism and public disorder” really doesn’t seem to hold. What in particular were you thinking of here?

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By: ozymandias

ozymandias — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 05:07:42 +0000

I feel like, given the existence of the entire atheist blogosphere, there’s not really a pressing need for another debunking of Christianity.

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