by Carl Howard | Jun 24, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, History, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
Most people have probably heard of Oskar Schindler through Spielberg’s movie Schindler’s List. Schindler is the most famous member of 25,271 people called Righteous of the Nations. These are non-Jews identified by the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to have committed...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, History, Race
Last week, the Sydney Morning Herald published a turd of an article titled How racist are you? by Mark Sawyer. It was so screwed up and misguided that I thought it’s a perfect thing to pick apart. It inadvertently does a great job of highlighting some of Australian...
by Carl Howard | May 20, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Interesting Stuff, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
The image has been spreading for a few weeks and has found its way to Reddit, Imgur and Viralnova. The background is that the farmer’s wife died and he sold his possessions and worked really hard to put his son through university. And now he has, with the son wearing...
by Carl Howard | May 6, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Spirituality
It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the Dalai Lama. For starters, he is the leader of a theocracy where leaders have brutally oppressed the population. This reality, and that of him being a leader of a religion that’s just like any other sometimes peeks...
by Carl Howard | Apr 29, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Ethics, Evolution and Biology, Feminism and LGBT, Science and Skepticism
There have been some stories over the last few years of parents who are raising a “genderless” child. Of course, this always gets a severe case of moral panic and I have found even people who are usually a bit less prone to such stuff lose their shit a little. Two of...
by Carl Howard | Apr 22, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Society
I used to watch Law and Order. Embarrassing, right? For those who don’t know, it’s a long-running half-cop half-courtroom show focussing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Naturally, the characters’ bias is going to be against defendants. One scene...
