User:Evercat

If in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind.

-- Iain M. Banks [1]

Evercat is:

• A 24 year-old Scottish male
• A philosophy graduate from Edinburgh University
• A left liberal (according to the Nolan chart)
• An atheist and skeptic
• A physicalist

Evercat opposes:

• Fanaticism in all its forms
• Paternalism, imperialism and militarism
• Libertarianism and the evil of laissez-faire capitalism
• The tyranny of today's patent system
• Pseudoscience, irrationality, relativism, post-modernism and mysticism (all much the same thing)
• Most metaphysics

Evercat is in favour of:

• Liberty
• Peace, at least where possible
• Social justice and social welfare
• Environmentalism, not for its own sake, but for the sake of people

Evercat uses:

• GNU/Linux, specifically, Gentoo
• GNOME
• Mozilla Firefox

Evercat is at least partially inclined towards:

• Buddhism (but he rejects nonsense like reincarnation and karma)
• Utilitarianism (but he notes that utilitarian arguments can be used or abused by oppressors and tyrants)
• A correspondence theory of truth (but without queer entities like "facts" or "propositions")
• The Many Worlds Interpretation

Evercat is influenced by:

• Derek Parfit
• David Hume
• Peter Unger
• Peter Singer
• David Deutsch
• Nick Bostrom

On Wikipedia, Evercat is:

• Somewhere between a deletionist and an inclusionist
• A moderate supporter of the status quo
• A frequent monitor of recent changes to all articles

Evercat has made some contributions to Wikipedia articles: (this is by no means an exhaustive list, and note that these pages may have completely changed since)

Philosophy:

Aristotelian logic - Bivalence and related laws - Divine command theory - Doctrine of double effect - Existentialism and Humanism - Fatalism - Gettier problem - Hume's fork - J. L. Mackie - Meditations on First Philosophy - Mere addition paradox - Modus ponendo tollens - Modus tollendo ponens - Moral skepticism - Occasionalism - Omnipotence paradox - Omniscience - Person - Peter Unger - Positive liberty - Pre-established harmony - Punishment - Reasons and Persons - Square of opposition - Suicide - The problem of Hell - Trolley problem - Virtue ethics

TV, Film, literature, and music:

Bound - Citizen X - Count Duckula - Dead Can Dance - Evanescence - Holy Wood - In a Station of the Metro - Kiefer Sutherland - The Metamorphosis - The Truman Show

Miscellaneous:

Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 - Bolo - Buddhabrot - Chimera - Diamond v. Chakrabarty - Game of chicken - Gene Robinson - GNU Go - Griswold v. Connecticut - Halo: Combat Evolved - Henry Spira - Kenny Richey - Late Night Poker - Leah Betts - Linate Airport disaster - Project Pigeon - Romer v. Evans - S.S. Richard Montgomery - Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios - Stable marriage problem - The Master of Go - Timetable For Action - Wild Haggis

Mandelbrot images:

Buddhabrot images:

As well as the GFDL, you may use my article-space contributions and images under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 or version 2.0.

The original version of this page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evercat