by Carl Howard | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
I once heard a comment that went something like this: Bestiality is one area where the left and right can come together. The right thinks it’s wrong because of sexual holiness, the left because of animal rights. The rest of us just say “who cares?”. Originally I was...
by Carl Howard | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
f you keep a moral belief only because of moral disgust (meaning it’s unjustified), it’s therapeutic to at least acknowledge it. I have a belief that [consensual] incest is disgusting and wrong. The paradox is that I know this is false, that there’s absolutely no...
by Carl Howard | Aug 27, 2014 | Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
This was the last event I went to at Sydney Science Festival and definitely the hardest for laypeople like me to wrap their minds around. I’ll try keep it super-simple! (Yeah right.) Quantum computing with Stephanie Simmons (UNSW) There’s a lot of hype in the media...
by Carl Howard | Aug 19, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, History, Philosophy, Society
[CN: Existentialism; emo] Ok, this is probably the most personal (and rambling) post I’ve written so if you don’t want to read the musings of a 30 year old that could well sound like the emo diary of a 15 year old, you know what to do… I’m a pretty curious person. I’m...
by Carl Howard | May 28, 2014 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy
You’ve probably seen stuff about the Isla Vista shooting everywhere (I’ll have links to good resources at the bottom of the post). Still, I thought it was worth addressing whether or not Elliot Rodger had a mental illness or not. Here’s a Facebook post by Maddox that...
by Carl Howard | Jan 7, 2013 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Yes. (At least for many of the most useful definitions of machines/beasts.) But I guess there’s a lot more to it — or so a lot of bloviators would like us to believe. There are a lot of opinion pieces out there that decry the materialism/reductionism/scientism...
