An Ad Hominem
Is your lecture of the week. On Marx. Not 100% objective, obviously, but the man was very clearly a charlatan and a self-interested preacher.
Watch “Black Mirror”
Here is a glimpse of similar themes. h/t KKairos:
Sunday Song
Ray LaMontagne – Airwaves
Objective Morality, Part II
The second and final part of the brief exploration of moral relativism and its opposite occurs below. Some of the explanation overlaps and repeats, but this iteration will be an attempt to build a positive case for morality being rooted in objective truth. Note of course, that culpability and absolute moral wrong are each not…
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Elites = Pyschopaths
The ultimate and final goal of evil is to obscure and destroy our very conception of evil itself, to change the inherent moral fiber of all humanity until people can no longer recognize what is right and what is wrong. Evil is not a wisp of theological myth or a simplistic explanation for the aberrant…
DetailsInequality Results from Advancement
Piketty, watch out!:
Bike Helmet Laws
Today is Bike to Work Day — an event that’s all about trying to get more people to ride bicycles more regularly. And here’s some advice that might help with that goal: Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets. For most bikers, this advice is anathema. The importance of wearing a helmet has been drilled…
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Ways Cops View the World
Just know when you speak to the police, that their angle is VERY different from yours… 1.) Even though you say differently, you probably don’t know your rights. 2.) If you leave your teenager in charge of the house while you go away for the weekend, he or she will probably do something you forbade…
DetailsMonty Hall, Revisited
I have posted it before, but it is worth another round for those of us with thick skulls…