Tag Archives: Ethics

Consider the Chickens

Intelligence, ethics, and the inner lives of animals By Rafia Zakaria Source: The Baffler I OWE CHICKENS AN APOLOGY. Not only have I been eating them until very recently, but I have refused to even consider the possibility of a … Continue reading

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RESISTING TYRANNY DEPENDS ON THE COURAGE TO NOT CONFORM

By Barry Brownstein Source: Waking Times Social psychologist Roy Baumeister begins his book Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, with a proposition that will be counterintuitive to many: “Evil usually enters the world unrecognized by the people who open the door … Continue reading

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The semi-satisfied life

Renowned for his pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer was nonetheless a conoisseur of very distinctive kinds of happiness By David Bather Woods Source: aeon On 13 December 1807, in fashionable Weimar, Johanna Schopenhauer picked up her pen and wrote to her 19-year-old … Continue reading

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The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite

By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do … Continue reading

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When the state is unjust, citizens may use justifiable violence

By Jason Brennan Source: aeon If you see police choking someone to death – such as Eric Garner, the 43-year-old black horticulturalist wrestled down on the streets of New York City in 2014 – you might choose to pepper-spray them … Continue reading

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Newsletter: From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: Dissident Voice The work to transform society involves two parallel paths: resisting harmful systems and institutions and creating new systems and institutions to replace them. Our focus in this article is on positive work that … Continue reading

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Keeping The Portal Open: Erik Davis on TechGnosis and the Blurring “Real” & “Virtual”

By Michael Garfield Source: Reality Sandwich Erik Davis is the author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, & Mysticism in the Age of Information (recently reissued by North Atlantic Books with a new afterword).  An investigation into how our transcendental urges play out in the … Continue reading

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#ACAB: Why the Institution of Policing Makes All Cops Bastards

By PM Beers Source: AntiMedia All cops are bastards because all cops, if ordered to, will enforce laws that oppress poor people. Many people would like to believe that there are good cops and bad cops. I’m going to explain … Continue reading

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