Research in cognitive psychology shows… that once we commit to a belief we employ the confirmation bias, in which we look for and find confirming evidence in support of it and ignore or rationalize away any disconfirming evidence…reasoning with facts about the issues is quite secondary to the emotional power …
In the fall of 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz faced a formidable challenge: to convince President Ronald Reagan that the time had come to jettison his favorite anti-Communist dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and openly align Washington with the forces of democracy in Chile. In September, Shultz sat down with …
How to Satisfy the World’s Surging Appetite for Meat This Huge Loophole Helps the Meat Industry Hide Its Pollution Is it okay for vegetarians to eat jellyfish? New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders Jane Goodall on her vegetarianism
Lawrence Jarach Preliminary Theses for a Longer Discussion on Essentialism and the Problem of Identity Politics: source Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of …
I have previously written an entry about David Benatar’s Asymmetry, an antinatalist argument which seeks to prove that procreation is wrong based on an asymmetry between existence and non-existence. The argument is popular, so it attracts attention from detractors as well. There is a certain level of confusion and difficulty …
The following article was written by Stephen Jay Gould Source: 1997. Kropotkin was no crackpot. Natural History 106 (June): 12-21; Transcribed: for marxists.org in May, 2002. also see: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, and Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation IN LATE 1909, two great men corresponded across …
I got hassled recently on public land by a busybody citizen, not an officer…made me think of this: