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Bob Ellis
Bob Ellis posted a blog entry
Sioux Falls School District Makes a Good Choice
Todd Epp at SD Watch and his friends at Planned Parenthood are upset that the Sioux Falls School District allowed the Alpha...
16 hours ago Dakota Voice | Topics: education, morality, abortion
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
No License To Be Human
Followup to: You Provably Can't Trust Yourself Yesterday I discussed the difference between: A system that believes - is moved...
16 hours ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Epistemology, Morality
 
filip spagnoli
filip spagnoli posted a blog entry
Human Rights Facts (55): China, Confucianism and Authoritarianism
Confucianism, the traditional Chinese ethical and philosophical system based on the teachings of Confucius (551 BCE - 479 BCE),...
 
29maret
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@pico morality ftw! *lho* I'm living in a 'musical' family, so.. yeah, moral.
 
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Green like Trees or Green Like Money?
Is it right to take money to become envirnmentally aware?
 
Seriously McMIllan
Seriously McMIllan posted a blog entry
No Funeral For A Mean Woman: Family Is Glad She’s Dead
I had heard about this on the radio and it stayed in my mind.What a horrible way to be remembered.What can I say?  I wonder...
 
Blue Linchpin
Blue Linchpin posted a blog entry
To Largo, With Love
So, Ladies and gentlemen, I got some evangelical preaching after posting why I hate pro-life Christians (because their God...
2 days ago Blue Linchpin | Topics: bullshit, christians, god, humor
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
You Provably Can't Trust Yourself
Followup to: Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom, Löb's Theorem Peano Arithmetic seems pretty trustworthy. We've never...
2 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Epistemology, Morality
 
Jim R
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." - Oscar Wilde
 
<em>krishna109a</em>
krishna109a posted a blog entry
Iran: New chastity patrols in the streets of Tehran
"the State Security Forces – mullahs' suppressive police – has added to its chastity patrols to control what it called...
 
Hans
Hans posted a blog entry
It’s all about pleasure?
Today's column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker's attractive opus, "10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others...
 
Alex
Alex posted a blog entry
On-road collisions and moral dilemmas
Now this gives me something to write about. It has been six years since I was involved in an on-road collision. And I’ve...
 
<em>bbadidea</em>
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Miracles and Medical Care
Via CNN comes this story detailing the ways in which people’s religious faith and belief in otherworldly intervention...
 
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Blue Linchpin
Blue Linchpin posted a blog entry
Morals Don’t Really Change
I’d like to explain a theory, or perhaps just a point of view I’ve had for a long time, and that is that morals for...
4 days ago Blue Linchpin | Topics: culture, morality
 
SriniG
SriniG posted a blog entry
J. Krishnamurti on 'morality'
Morality, which should be spontaneous, has been made to follow a pattern, a principle which becomes right or wrong according to...
 
Blue Linchpin
Blue Linchpin posted a blog entry
"Pro-Life" Christians and Why I HATE Them
You heard me.I reserve the word hate, or at least try to. Generally I don’t hate a group, but this is one group that...
 
robinhanson
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The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary?
Followup to: Is Fairness Arbitrary?, Joy in the Merely Good, Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps Yesterday, I presented the idea...
7 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Disagreement, Morality
 
Ergosum
Ergosum posted a blog entry
What Can India be Proud Of?
The celebration of Indian independence should be more than a record-keeping of years. Yes, it is undeniable that India has...
7 days ago Leitmotif | Topics: Culture, General..., India, Indian Blogs
 
Spicy Cauldron
Spicy Cauldron posted a blog entry
Location-based services, privacy, loss and exposure
There’s a big hoohah right now over Yahoo!’s new offering of location-based services, yet precious little has been...
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
Is Fairness Arbitrary?
Followup to: The Bedrock of Fairness In "The Bedrock of Fairness", Xannon, Yancy, and Zaire argue over how to split up a pie...
8 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Morality
 
bpittard
bpittard posted a blog entry
Great Editor V.K. Narasimhan Blind In Only One
The late V.K. Narasimhan - or VKN, as he was fondly known throughout India -  had long been known as one of India’s most...
 
OldSoldier
OldSoldier posted a blog entry
Reparations for Blacks (and others)
The title comes from this ‘WorldNetDaily’ article.  Go ahead and read the article if you are a mind to; however this...
9 days ago Old Soldier | Topics: Morality, Politics
 
Peter O
Peter O posted a blog entry
The point Dawkins missed
Just spent the last hour watching the second in the series by Richard Dawkins, entitled "The Genius of Charles Darwin"....
 
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robinhanson
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Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps
Followup to: Anthropomorphic Optimism Once upon a time there was a strange little species - that might have been biological, or...
12 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: AI, Morality
 
bloglady
bloglady posted a blog entry
John Edwards
I was watching CNN yesterday as they were covering the story of John Edwards' affair.I was appalled - literally - at the...
 
leticia
leticia posted a blog entry
Fitting tribute to A Great Prophet
Michael Cook's article at MercatorNet on my college hero, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn explains the complexities the rise...
 
robinhanson
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Inseparably Right; or, Joy in the Merely Good
Followup to: The Meaning of Right I fear that in my drive for full explanation, I may have obscured the punchline from my...
13 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Morality, Naturalism
 
mike hall
mike hall posted a blog entry
The Check-Out Zone
There is a check-out zone somewhere between total disobedience and complete devotion. In this zone things become two sided....
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
Morality as Fixed Computation
Followup to: The Meaning of Right Toby Ord commented: Eliezer, I've just reread your article and was wondering if this is a...
14 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: AI, Morality, Naturalism
 
bpabbott
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14 days ago Ben likes to ramble | Topics: Pat Condell, morality
 
bpittard
bpittard posted a blog entry
Small Turnout In Russia for Solzhenitsyn
Vale Alexander Solzhenitsyn!It may be argued that the genuine models of moral excellence are great and visionary but flawed...
 
Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
CANNOT ENTER HEAVEN BY FORCE: CONVERSATION WITH LITURGIST: PART 7
     Title: "Not in our name." Nearly verbatimHello again, With the long break, I've had...
 
Ergosum
Ergosum posted a blog entry
The Morality Presented in The Dark Knight
To the extent of my knowledge, nobody–not even any Objectivists–have pointed out some of the crucial complications...
 
Dennis
Dennis posted a blog entry
Do They Really Need To Brag?
I was watching the news the other night, and for some strange reason my wife and I always watch GMA 7’s “24...
 
mike hall
mike hall posted a blog entry
Weighing Your Options?
It occurred to me the other day what I forfeit when I sin. We all know that life is about the choices we make but how often do...
17 days ago Two Institutions | Topics: Biblical, Culture, Disciple, Faith
 
Tom Usher
Tom Usher posted a blog entry
FOR MINE ANGEL SHALL GO BEFORE THEE, ... AND I WILL CUT THEM OFF: MILITARY ABOMINABLE
     Title: "Mars, Jamahiriya Museum, Tripoli, Libya. From Lepcis Magna." "For mine Angel...
 
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robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
Could Anything Be Right?
Followup to: Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom, Rebelling Within Nature Years ago, Eliezer1999 was convinced that he...
34 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Morality
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
The Gift We Give To Tomorrow
Followup to: Thou Art Godshatter, Joy in the Merely Real, Is Morality Given?, Rebelling Within Nature How, oh how, did an...
35 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Future, Morality
 
Ambermoon
Ambermoon posted a blog entry
When does a person have the right to “pull the plug” on their life?
Before I get a ton of emails wondering if I am suicidal, I can assure you all I am not.  However, a person in my position cant...
36 days ago Ambermoon | Topics: Depression, Me, Personal, Uncategorized
 
robinhanson
robinhanson posted a blog entry
Whither Moral Progress?
Followup to: Is Morality Preference? In the dialogue "Is Morality Preference?", Obert argues for the existence of moral...
36 days ago Overcoming Bias | Topics: Morality
 
JonTillman
JonTillman posted a blog entry
Animals Matter Because We Are Animals
Down the road of veganism I go, one philosophical step at a time. The first step in becoming vegan was, for me, realizing that...
 
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<em>bbadidea</em>
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Double standard: Andrew Sullivan on Catholic Wafer Controversy
Blogger and liberal Catholic Andrew Sullivan was a hearty defender of the infamous Danish cartoons that depicted and poked fun...
 
Seriously McMIllan
Seriously McMIllan posted a blog entry
3 Lessons In Public Speaking With Jesse Jackson
You know, it took a while for me to make a comment about Rev. Jesse Jackson and his comments regarding Barack Obama because I...