Russell is one of my favorite thinkers. I've never read his technical stuff, but reading Why I Am Not a Christian transformed my intuitive atheism into one with philosophical arguments. His Fallacy of the Superior Virtue of the Oppressed allows me to live on the left without falling into one of the left's more stupid beliefs, that the oppressed are good and the oppressors evil.
So if Russell wants to be called a "Lord", I have no problem with that. I generally call people what they want to be call: if a guy with beard says they want to be addressed with "she" or "they", I call them that. So fine with Lord Russell. Whatever problems the U.K. may have, I don't think that they're due to having an aristocracy and a monarchy. At least they never elected Trump.
Russell is one of my favorite thinkers. I've never read his technical stuff, but reading Why I Am Not a Christian transformed my intuitive atheism into one with philosophical arguments. His Fallacy of the Superior Virtue of the Oppressed allows me to live on the left without falling into one of the left's more stupid beliefs, that the oppressed are good and the oppressors evil.
So if Russell wants to be called a "Lord", I have no problem with that. I generally call people what they want to be call: if a guy with beard says they want to be addressed with "she" or "they", I call them that. So fine with Lord Russell. Whatever problems the U.K. may have, I don't think that they're due to having an aristocracy and a monarchy. At least they never elected Trump.