Religions never give you proof. You have to take a leap of faith. If you had proof, you would no longer be obeying because ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

When one is an outsider, openness leads to wanting to understand the other. Once one is inside the society, all the ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

The third world operates by a different system: every social institution is rotted, so you have warlords who dispense favors ...

In Southern cities, people have a culture that emphasizes fairness including ensuring that your group does not get ...

A mono-ethnic society allows culture to predominate fully. “Culture” is always ill-defined, but basically means a set of ...

For those who enjoy a good lively discussion, I was on the Necropolis AD podcast episode DEATH TO POSEURS this morning ...