by Carl Howard | Aug 15, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
I want to look at stoning in Judaism as a quick case study of how concepts evolve in religions as their practitioners mature morally. Early Hebrew Bible: You can get stoned for anything (there’s about 22 capital crimes, although stoning itself only applies to some)....
by Carl Howard | Jul 16, 2009 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Science and Skepticism
I usually try to keep posts concise. But I thought once a month I can splurge on my word count and try talk about something in a bit more detail. Here goeth my first attempt. A few days ago Takis Konstantopoulos wrote a reaction to my 2008 post about the Holodomor...
by Carl Howard | Jul 2, 2009 | Blog Topics, Society
So about 6 months ago my friend Alan blogs about real life superheroes. That is, those who might dress in superhero costumes and lurk the streets looking for a victim to save. One idiot actually failed to save a woman screaming because he took too long to put on his...
by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2009 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Feminism and LGBT, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness
[Uni coursework is over so woo-hoo to more blogging!] Milgram’s experiment is one of the most popularly known psychology experiments. Basically, a subject was to administer electric shocks of increasing intensity to a student (who was really an actor taking fake...
by Carl Howard | Jan 28, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Links, Spirituality
The idea of killing for inner peace isn’t as preposterous as it sounds. Or rather, it IS as preposterous as it sounds but not as uncommon as it seems. A great example comes from that Source of All Worldly Wisdom: the Simpsons. Here, Springfield stumbles onto what...
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...
