Desert CollapsesPub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv15wxn95.6
Stephen Kershnar
{"title":"Responsibility","authors":"Stephen Kershnar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv15wxn95.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv15wxn95.6","url":null,"abstract":"Gun crime in the USA is wildly out of line with other nations. Obesity has taken off as a growing problem around the world in the past forty years. Homelessness is increasing, whilst the average age of home owners is rising. Governments tell their citizens that they ought to eat healthy food, tell the young to get good jobs to buy houses, and blame the bad guys for gun crime. In all cases, the problem lies with government regulation and government policy. This chapter looks at how governments blame citizens for failures which are caused by government. They have been encouraged by political philosophers who concentrate upon individual moral responsibility, freedom and autonomy, whilst ignoring the fact that governments no longer seem to want to legislate for the welfare of their citizens. This chapter sets up the argument of the book. Individuals are responsible for the choices they can reasonably make given the menu of opportunities available to them. That menu is the responsibility of government – and the menu is poor fare.","PeriodicalId":136111,"journal":{"name":"Desert Collapses","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132502400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Desert CollapsesPub Date : 2018-06-19DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvc7798g.16
Stephen Kershnar
{"title":"Ground","authors":"Stephen Kershnar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvc7798g.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc7798g.16","url":null,"abstract":". We consider a free energy functional on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, and investigate the existence of its global minimizers. The energy functional consists of two components: an entropy (or internal energy) and an interaction energy modelled by an attractive potential. The two components have competing effects, as they favour spreading by linear diffusion and blow-up by nonlocal attractive interactions, respectively. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of ground states for manifolds with sectional curvatures bounded above and below, respectively. In particular, for general Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, superlinear growth at infinity of the attractive potential prevents the spreading. The behaviour can be relaxed for homogeneous manifolds, for which only linear growth of the potential is sufficient for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":136111,"journal":{"name":"Desert Collapses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129013647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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