by Carl Howard | Jan 9, 2009 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
’ve seen plenty of opinions that Israel’s strikes in Gaza have been excessive in terms of civilian casualties. This leads to a very natural question: how many civilian casualties would be ok? This isn’t to give an opinion on the current war, but if public debate...
by Carl Howard | Oct 10, 2008 | Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Sex
Necrophilia should be legalised because we don’t have enough organ donors. I’m serious, bear with me. Organ donation rates are abysmal in countries that require people to opt in. Most choose the default (not opting in). Not even from laziness but because people have...
by Carl Howard | Sep 8, 2008 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
You’re driving 6km over the limit, get pulled over and receive a ticket for $2,500,000,000,000. You go to court. “I plead guilty, but what’s with the typo?” “Typo?” asks the judge. “It says I’ve been fined $2.5 trillion.” “You have.” You start swearing & are...
by Carl Howard | Aug 24, 2008 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Evolution and Biology, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Since evolution is taught badly in schools (and few go on to learn it at uni), we have misconceptions. One is that evolution is “for the good of the species”, with each species becoming refined as a whole. Not true: evolution doesn’t necessarily cause a whole species...
by Carl Howard | Jun 5, 2008 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Race, Science and Skepticism
It’s common to think of the idea that babies are caused by sex as sort of the ultimate Obvious Idea. When someone wants to make fun of another’s naivety or ignorance they will sometimes quip “he/she thinks babies come from storks”. This concept even gets the grandiose...
by Carl Howard | Apr 5, 2008 | Blog Topics, History, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Sorry if you got this twice, I deleted this post accidentally being the moron that I am… When you ask [modern secular] people about Galileo’s trial (for his book promoting Copernican astronomy), here’s a common view: A case of science vs. religion Catholic Church as...
