: About Me

Favorite quotes:

Virtue philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre:

"An agent can only justify a particular judgment by referring to some universal rule from which it may be logically derived, and can only justify that rule in turn by deriving it from some more general rule or principle; but on this view since every chain of reasoning must be finite, such a process of justificatory reasoning must always terminate with the assertion of some rule or principle for which no further reason can be given."

Analytical philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein:

"When we say This man's life was valuable' we don't mean it in the same sense in which we would speak of some valuable jewelry but there seems to be some sort of analogyThus in ethical and religious language we seem constantly to be using similes. But a simile must be a simile for something. And if I can describe a fact by means of a simile I must also be able to drop the simile and to describe the facts without it. Now in our case as soon as we try to drop the simile and simply to state the facts behind it, we find that there are no such facts. And so, what at first seemed to be a simile now seems to be mere nonsense."

Existential nihilist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:

"Every word immediately becomes a concept, in as much as it is not intended to serve as a reminder of the unique and wholly individualize original experience to which it owes its birthevery concept originates through our equating what is unequalNo leaf ever wholly equals another, and the concept "leaf" is formed through an arbitrary abstraction from these individual differences, through forgetting the distinctions; and now it gives rise to the idea that in nature there might be something besides the leaves which would be "leaf"- some kind of original form after which all leaves have been woven, marked, copied, colored, curled, and painted, but by unskilled hands, so that no copy turned out to be a correct, reliable, and faithful image of the original form."

My passion is ...

Debate, basketball, gaming, eating, writing...

I know too much about ...

Debate

My parents always told me ...

Don't debate me

My childhood ambition ...

To debate

My favorite memory ...

Winning a debate tournament

Why I write ...

make $$ to buy Boba

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Debate round...

My first job ...

Selling debate cases

My best moment ...

Cross apply "favorite memory"

My inspiration ...

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas...debates

Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Plea Bargains: Better for criminals or victims

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The function of any justice system must be by definition to serve justice to all individuals. Hence the only standard in which to evaluate whether or not plea bargaining in exchange for testimony is just or unjust is distinguishing innocence from guilt. There are three independent reasons for this: 1. Without a clear delineation between the guilty and innocent, the incentive to be innocent completely disappears and all social order is lost. Frank Easterbrook explains: "as the number of convictions falls, it becomes more important that each case be decided accurately. This is so because the...

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