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Topics [ edit ]

Marginal Topics [ edit ]

Topics that don't often make the evening news.

The Morality of Government - Taxation is Theft, Anarchism

Property and Ownership - Socialism and Capitalism

About this guide [ edit ]

This wiki is an explication of my thoughts on political philosophy. I chose a wiki over a blog as my view will hopefully change and need to be updated, but blogs frown upon edits. The idea of a wiki is that it is always ready to be edited.

Read more about the purpose and function of this guide here (Coming Soon)

A good article [ edit ]

Articles here are not supposed to be the last word for their respective issues.

A good article will charitably describe a position and invite objections. Evidence is not to be presented in support of a claim, but only to counter a previous claim (I am still crafting this policy, tell me what you think).

Each article is supposed to merely move the conversation ahead one step and let the reader navigate from there.

How to help [ edit ]

If you know Mediawiki I could use your help setting up the structure of the wiki, templates, I am also using Semantic Mediawiki specifically for the 'Navigation' section. It needs tweaking.

Input missing (counter-)arguments and issues.

Creating missing pages (red links).

Editing pages.

Writing descriptions of positions.

Populating other sections of pages: 'In the wild'; Arguments seen on the web 'Resources'; supporting content for people who what to know more.



Some guidelines [ edit ]

This guide is meant to be a resource for all sides of a given issue.

Leave out definitions for the moment. See where this goes with this site taking a neutral stand on meaning.

This is a place to help make sense of discussions, and to collect information from how people discuss these topics. It is not a forum for actually having discussions (except on the discussion pages linked at the top of most pages).

Wiki's are designed to be easy to fix, so don't worry too much about breaking things. If you have the power to break something important, then the earlier I learn that out the better.

Please put a 'Navigation' template on counter-arguments after the main issue page.

Use the 'is parent of' property when a page links to its own counter-arguments. These populate the 'Navigation' template. It is ok to forget, or not do it if you are not comfortable.

Try to re-use pages. For example, unless it requires an explanation, you can simply link an argument to a logically fallacy page. If we tag properly each fallacy page should collect a list of bad arguments. If the discussion on national defense goes into the immorality of taxation, there should be no need for a separate discussion.

Link all that should be linked. Try to connect various parts of the site with each other.

Try to counter the existing articles rather than making a counter-argument to a non-existent argument. Or start a new topic and put it on the main page. There is currently no place for an article on the Calculation problem. We will have to wait for a spot to emerge somewhere in Property and Ownership.

To Do [ edit ]