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Feb 20, 2023Liked by Emil O. W. Kirkegaard

So, if you could go back in time, lost your memory of these, and were only able to read 5 of them -- which five would you pick to still read?

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Hard question! Maybe Perry on feminism, Eysenck autobiography, Discrimination myth, What we owe the future, and Spy and the traitor.

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《On discrimination》

1-Life works differently from libertarian dogmas. People are not rational. They may prefer collective interests rather than individual interests. There are similarities between economic power and political power between companies and states. Discrimination effect is depend to circumstances of every cases. Discrimination of politically and economically weak minority is worst case. To be fair most developed countries and U.S. states are generally more liberal. I dont think discrimination is big problem. But reason is not libertarian ethic. Reason is politic and economic conditions.

2- Majority of pro-discrimination people arent libertarian. Likely they will behave like <woke> if they are target of discrimination.

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Thanks. Please make this a regular feature, as it is very helpful in planning my book consumption.

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Thanks! Keep it up. Reading through this, it occurs to me that you could juice your substack stats by reposting reviews from your blog on Substack at intervals (preferably with @ shout outs to relevant people). Food for thought!

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wow i was literally creeping on your good reads book reviews last week.

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Have you tried to ask ChatGPT what it thinks about you? It is quite critical..

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Used to write positive things about me, even wrote some poems which are probably nicer than anything a human has said 😂

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