by Carl Howard | Dec 4, 2013 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, History, Race, Science and Skepticism, Society
It’s common to hear lamentations about the stupidity of the general voting public. “And these people vote!” is a common ending to a story about stupidity as you can see in the image above. It’s not as combative as “And these people breed!” (which I might cover later)...
by Carl Howard | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism, Society
So, you still think we’re not utterly fucked as a species? I offer two exhibits. Exhibit A Namibia is having the worst drought in 30 years. At the time of UNICEF’s video (below), about 1/3 of Namibians were facing food insecurity. Crops have failed and for...
by Carl Howard | Sep 27, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy
The recent post on anti-bullying got me thinking about the irrational way we humans tend to assign people responsibility when they do something bad or careless. Here’s the meme again: The boy you punched in the hall today. Committed suicide a few minutes ago. That...
by Carl Howard | Mar 2, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
My 2.5 year old post on consensual incest continues to be the most popular post I’ve ever done. It’s drawn in a huge number of comments, probably because it’s now #5 in Google for [consensual incest] and #1 for [consensual sibling incest]. For the same reasons many of...
by Carl Howard | Feb 17, 2011 | Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Philosophy, Resources, Food and Environment
I’ve noticed that with social causes people often passionately and vehemently support improvements that are marginal/token at best. At the same time, they might be [obliviously?] engaging in actions that are contributing to the problem much more than their token...
by Carl Howard | Jun 15, 2010 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy
[This post is a follow-up to my 5 min challenge to readers I posted last week. To get the most out of it, please do the challenge first.] In the last post, I presented a disturbing video of cow/calf abuse at a dairy farm. The context was not to see it in terms of...
