by Carl Howard | Mar 21, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Charity and Philanthropy, Philosophy
Not much. Not much at all, as I will now argue. This post is a continuation of the last two posts which were about the Japanese earthquake vs the Haiti one. I thought the intent of my posts was pretty clear but looks like people interpret commentry on tragedies very...
by Carl Howard | Mar 21, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Philosophy
Not much. Not much at all, as I will now argue. This post is a continuation of the last two posts which were about the Japanese earthquake vs the Haiti one. I thought the intent of my posts was pretty clear but looks like people interpret commentry on tragedies very...
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 | Nov 24, 2010 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
I’ve noticed an interesting disonnect between proofs some fundamentalist believers use for their religion and their beliefs about science (especially evolution). For an example, let’s take Judaism, which has a proof that the Torah is divine. This is called the Kuzari...
by Carl Howard | Aug 10, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Society
Picture me this: a maths graduate student comes up with an amazing proof for one of the great unsolved problems in mathematics. He/she submits this to a supervisor, who checks it thoroughly and points out an error. On page 137, an extra minus sign popped into the...
