Four Ethical pts. 1) Honor commitments when you offer protection! 2) He is running for elections in the US & Afghans don't vote 3) For Nation States, noncitizens' lives don't count, no more than roaches 4) Has "Christian" in bio & Xtianity goes beyond nations!
2) You can build ethical arguments along the point:
If the Captain of the ship is American and the passengers are ALL Afghans, can the captain leave first & let them drown, or is he or she FIRST a captain & must shoulder he Captain responsibility ?
3) Basically it is NOT of the interest of the U.S. to dump people & run away as nobody will eventually accept your promises of protection.
4) When you deal with domestic issues, decisions are clear. Hire citizens before foreigners, etc.
When it comes to matters that entail dereliction of duty and dishonor of plege, nationality DOES NOT necessarily come first.
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Please note that I have a technical blog, largely focused on uses and misuses of probability in #Medicine. But one can get some entertainments from psycholophasters.
I am all for freedom.
But then hospital staff MUST also have the freedom to treat you last, give priority of resources to people who promote safety for themselves and others, no?
Freedom!
[Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19]
2) Freedom must come with consequences and reciprocity.
[Being smoker/obese or having a risk factor is not in your control and is not MULTIPLICATIVE. Asking for freedom to SPREAD Covid is something different.]
3) For idiots not getting it, an obese person is only harming herself or himself. Someone who wants to spread Covid is actively harming others, and so in a multiplicative way.
PROBABILITY DU JOUR
You can see with the naked eye that the data in the Ariely paper was fabricated: for annual miles driven, STDEV ~ ½ mean. For a one-tailed distribution, this MUST be Uniform, flat frequ. in [a,b].
Miles per annum CANNOT be uniform SINCE they are a sum: CLT!
2) Here is the story (softly) retracted from PNAS. Someone cheated in the food chain, and there was no need for the graphs below to figure it out.
The gym of the Presidential Palace in Kabul.
Not a single Taliban tried to deadlift. One of them pressed ~50 lbs. Tells you something about the strength of the other side.
It turns out that Mr @Snowden is not willing (or not able) to debate me.
Incidentaly, his repertoire includes tricks used by charlatans (pathologization):as Karl Popper said, when you question psychoanalysts, they accuse you of having problems with your father.
PROBABILITY DU JOUR
People misanalyze the way Mr @Snowden presence in Russia dramatically changes probabilities (misestimation of probability in FBR). I fell for it myself.
Exercise: Now add his intellectual dishonesty and rederive!
PHILOLOGY DU JOUR
Friends, in Modern Greek, καιρός means both TIME and WEATHER. Same with Romance languages (temps, tiempo, tempo).
Any other languages?
In Persian, روزگار maybe. Interestingly Persian uses the Semitic هوا while Arabic uses the Greek طقس.
So an interesting flipping of roots: Arabic uses, for weather, IndoEuropean (Greek) τάξης (order, εν τάξει) طقس, while I-E Urdu uses the Arabic mawsam موسم, an agricultural term linked to seasonality of crops.
Coastal Levantine vs farming Central Asia?