Tag: morality
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#MorningMonarchy: March 10, 2016
Zodiac, Final Destination and Monkey Shines + this day in history w/Long Beach Quake ’33 and our song of the day by Beach Skulls on your Morning Monarchy for March 10, 2016.
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Can Moral Disputes Be Resolved?
from opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com: Moral disputes seem intractable — more intractable than other disputes. Take an example of a moral position that most of us would consider obvious: Honor killing is wrong. But honor killing has its supporters. Anyone who suggests that we can compromise with its supporters on the matter misunderstands the nature of this type…
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Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion
from edge.org: It might seem obvious to you that contractual societies are good, modern, creative and free, whereas beehive societies reek of feudalism, fascism, and patriarchy. And, as a secular liberal I agree that contractual societies such as those of Western Europe offer the best hope for living peacefully together in our increasingly diverse modern…
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South Africa: Occult Crime Unit Is Offensive to Common Sense and Morality
from allAfrica.com: Decades after its formation, the Occult-Related Crime Unit (ORCU, founded by Kobus “Donker” Jonker in 1992) continues to waste public resources, misdirect police attention, and stigmatise young people who are by and large more misunderstood than malignant. Amongst all the crimes that we can speculate police in this unit might have seen, there’s…
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6 Surprising Scientific Findings About Good and Evil
from MotherJones.com: Maybe you already know the famous hypothetical dilemma: A train is barreling down a track, about to hit five people, who are certain to die if nothing happens. You are standing at a fork in the track and can throw a switch to divert the train to another track—but if you do so,…