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Below are 66 essays of mine, preceded by a list of their titles. One of the pieces is (intentionally) humorous ( I think it’s funny): “Mark Twain Ghost Speech”; another essay is on drugs: “Some Reasons Not to Use Drugs”; and another is on cosmology: “Thoughts on the Big Bang Theory.” The other 63 essays are on philosophy. Most of those are taken from a philosophy club’s now-defunct website, where members posted comments and arguments on various topics. When that website existed, I simply, here, gave a list

1. Purpose in War: a Rebuttal       © 3 December 2004 by Richard J. Eisner

At the 21 November 2004 meeting of the Philosophy Club, a member—I believe it was Ron—asserted that the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq, though undertaken (by the Bush administration) from bad motives, was nonetheless beneficial, and therefore justified (the end justifies the means). I agree that the war was begun for bad reasons. The reason given (immanent, serious threat posed by “weapons of mass destruction”) turned out to be a fraud. So it wasn’t the real reason. If the real reason were a good one,

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