by Carl Howard | Mar 15, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
[UPDATE: follow-up post here] There has been a huge reaction to the Japan earthquake in terms of media coverage, personal condolences and anguish on social media etc etc. While that’s a good thing I’m very dismayed at how much less support was shown in the Haiti...
by Carl Howard | Mar 15, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Charity and Philanthropy, Race, Society
There has been a huge reaction to the Japan earthquake in terms of media coverage, personal condolences and anguish on social media etc etc. While that’s a good thing I’m very dismayed at how much less support was shown in the Haiti earthquake especially considering...
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 | Oct 26, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
Now that I’ve done the pre-pre-intro, the pre-intro and the intro, time to actually start blogging some Jewish law! There are a number of cases of exceptionalism that run across different religions. One that I looked at a year ago is the idea that “my religion’s not a...
