US: One of the world’s worst countries for women? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
09 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, moral panic, pessimism bias, regressive left
The Time Rock & Roll Saved Free Speech
14 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, Music, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Censorship, moral panic, nanny state
Dissenting opinion in the Fourth Circuit case on transgender students and restrooms
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: moral panic, political correctness, sex discrimination, social friction, transgender people
Until a few months ago, there is universal agreement particularly among women that men should not be allowed into female bathrooms and change rooms. There are relatively few transgender people according to New York at times estimates, and few had heard of them until recently to discriminate against them in long-standing bathroom arrangements.
This is not a case of sex discrimination. It is some people being rather unusual and not fitting into arrangements that suit everybody else. These arrangements regarding bathrooms, change rooms and privacy were crafted with absolutely no malice or hostility towards those who find them inconvenient such as transgender people. You just cannot please everybody.
There are certainly hostility and indeed violence against transgender people. That violence is by a minority full of hate looking for someone to hate on any criteria. There are some people are not nice and who take pleasure in being nasty and at times violent towards other people. That is separate from managing the long-standing human preference for bodily privacy.
Opposing discrimination is about telling people to stop being an arsehole. They have preferences about who they deal with that are appalling and mean. The segregation of bathrooms and changing rooms by sex is about a fundamental human desire for bodily privacy.
Must we always tread on eggshells?
03 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: free speech, meddlesome preferences, moral panic, nanny state, political correctness, trigger warnings
Trigger Warning: Those easily offended could be offended by this message. http://t.co/69NRjjeK7y—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) July 28, 2015
Helicopter parents alert: There’s never been a safer time to be a kid
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health and safety, health economics Tags: accident rates, capitalism and freedom, child rearing, economics of the family, health and safety, Helicopter parents, moral panic, The Great Escape
I roamed all over Devonport on my bike when I was a lad. No more, no longer!?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: child development, good old days, Helicopter parents, moral panic, political correctness
As a soon-to-be parent, I find this fascinating and terrifying. The diminishing range of children visualized: http://t.co/7NiFN9Eaw0—
Austen Allred (@AustenAllred) April 18, 2015
UK’s Sky News Loses It After Charlie Hebdo Writer Holds Up Mohammed Cover On-Air | National Review Online
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: Censorship, free speech, Leftover Left, media bias, moral panic, war on terror
Climate Consensus: Do Little for Now
16 Sep 2014 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, liberalism, technological progress Tags: climate alarmism, cost benefit analysis, global warming, moral panic, richer is safer, wealthier is healthier
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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