Ethicists say voting with your heart, without a care about the consequences, is actually immoral

Finding a candidate who embraces your values is understandable, crucial even. But fervent idealism, which places support for a certain candidate above all practical consequences of that support, is foolhardy. According to ethicists, it’s also immoral.

“The purpose of voting is not to express your fidelity to a worldview. It’s not to wave a flag or paint your face in team colors; it’s to produce outcomes,” says Jason Brennan, a philosopher at Georgetown University and author of The Ethics of Voting. “If they’re smart, they’ll vote for the candidate likely to best produce the outcome they want. That might very well be compromising, but if voting for a far-left or far-right candidate means that you’re just going to lose the election, then you’ve brought the world further away from justice rather than closer to it.”

Brexit shows why voting with your heart, without a care about the consequences, can be immoral — Quartz

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Periods For Pence Has Come Back With A Vengeance | Bustle

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump announced Friday morning on Twitter that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would be his running mate in the 2016 presidential election. Pence has been at the center of some nightmarish anti-abortion legislation in Indiana. In April, he signed a bill forcing women to disclose their reasons for terminating a pregnancy and criminalizing doctors who provided the service, which prompted women around the state to call his office and report on their periods since the governor was so concerned with their private matters.

Periods For Pence Has Come Back With A Vengeance | Bustle

Get him, ladies!

Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified – Counter Current News

The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child.

Within seconds,” the officer’s electroshock weapon discharged snares into the chest of the 70-pound girl, the lawsuit reads. “The force of the electricity shot through her body, lifted her, and threw her against a wall. After the officers had stunned (the girl) into high voltage submission, they pulled the fish-hook like Taser darts from her chest, gave her emergency medical attention, bandaged the holes left by the razor-sharp hooks, and called the ambulance.”

Attorney Dana Hanna recounts the incident, saying that the “four trained police officers surrounding a 70-pound, 8-year-old Indian girl,” should have used tactics that were less violent and not so risky to the young girl’s health and possibly life. “She had a kitchen paring knife, but hadn’t cut. She was a kid throwing a tantrum. They should have made an attempt to grab the kid, not use a weapon to throw her into a wall. A Taser’s not meant to kill, but it does kill. Many people have died after being hit by a Taser by cops. It never should be used on a little child. She certainly wasn’t presenting a danger to officers.”

The girl’s father, Bobby Jones added, “I don’t fault for the police being there because they were called. They were there. But what happened while they were there is why I’m upset,” in an early interview he did with local KSFY. 

Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified – Counter Current News

Grrrrrrrrrr.

One, who the F called the cops over a tantrum? That person should have been charged!

Two, the officers should be facing jail-time for the unnecessary violence and should lose their badges for using piss poor judgement and acting like a militia instead of a force sworn to protect the public..

Who Is Qandeel Baloch? Pakistani Model Becomes Latest Victim Of ‘Honor Killing’ In The Country

Qandeel Baloch, who was highly controversial because of her bold appearances, had faced severe criticism for being vulgar and allegedly distorting Pakistan’s image.

A Pakistani model, who was known for her provocative appearances on social media, was allegedly killed by her brother, who had been forcing her to quit modeling and stop posting photos and videos on Facebook.

Three weeks ago, she had written to the country’s interior minister, the director general of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) and the senior superintendent of Islamabad asking them to provide security to her,

Who Is Qandeel Baloch? Pakistani Model Becomes Latest Victim Of ‘Honor Killing’ In The Country

Sigh…

Law professor responds to students who complained about her Black Lives Matter shirt

On student claims that their tuition requires her to [acquiesce to their desires] : “…The natural and logical extension of your premise is that students on a full scholarship are not entitled to assert their needs and desires to the same extent as other students (or maybe even at all). So, as you can see, arguments premised on consumerism are not likely to influence me.”

On the student premise that “you are not paying for my opinion”: “You are not paying me to pretend I don’t have one.” 

On student criticism that Black Lives Matter is “racist and anti-law enforcement and has been known to incite violence”: “If I say ‘law students matter,’ it does not imply that my colleagues, friends and family do not …. When people are receiving messages from the culture in which they live that their lives are less important than other lives, it is a cruel distortion of reality to scold them for not being inclusive enough.” 

…Leary then goes on to offer a critique of the writing style of the memo, saying it was poorly written and undercut the argument of the letter writers.

Law professor responds to students who complained about her Black Lives Matter shirt

Awesome sauce!

Remarks By Former President George W. Bush At Interfaith Memorial Service For Officers

The text of the former President’s speech at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Remarks By Former President George W. Bush At Interfaith Memorial Service For Officers

sometimes I wonder what his tenure would have been like without the influence of Rumsfeld and Cheney…

Oh well, water under the bridge now.