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- How a private-sector CEO thinks.
- LGBT asylum seekers, quotas and open immigration.
- Death and the Captain
- A brief letter on a facial beauty.
- An Open Letter to a Teacher: Listening can go both ways
- Life is Beautiful: A Letter to a Drunk Mind
- Democratic government and its approach to individual rights
- Public services: how should we pay for them?
- A letter on Haaretz, and the perspective we must take on Israel.
- Neoliberalism: The Misunderstood Ideology (assuming it exists).
- The problems of immortality and the value of death.
- Liberalism and Primitivism: Choice, or the natural and primitive life?
- Eye on the News: Surveys and Lingusitic Barriers
- Drugs: paternalistic government or absolute self-ownership?
- An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections Of Early Childhood”
In Montreal, it is no longer possible to smoke inside of restaurants and bars. There was resistance at first, but the anti-tobacco law is now part of the past and done and it seems to have popular support. But was it the right choice? Many will consider the answer to this question obvious, but this does not mean that we should not analyze and critique this law, for what is popular is not necessarily right. I have found that my question — “was it the right choice?” — will probably be impossible to answer with certainty, but even then, I believe the question highlights a problem for which there is an answer, a solution; there is a compromise to be made that should satisfy both those who lean both towards a liberal and collectivist interpretation of this political question.
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