A Reverie on Failure Part 4: Gerrymandered Ludditism
A moral gerrymandering of my personal Ludditism can become disciplined if I filter that jagged line through the lens of the human condition.
Tagged: ethics
On Writing of Wrongs
We should understand that because of the technology of the day, we may well be the most recorded and documented generation in history.
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Revolutionary?
A morally justifiable act isn’t always a morally preferable. That’s an important distinction frequently overlooked in thought exercises.
Dawkins Sticks His Foot In It…Again
Eugenics is a precise word. It does not mean “selective breeding”, which Dawkins — an award-winning Oxford biologist — seems to think it does.
The Debate over Ethics and Charity: Making it Rain on Skid Row Holiday Edition
The age old debate gets a new video to go with it. Charitable display? Dehumanizing look-at-me moment? Both? What say you, Comentareum?
A Song of Tolling Bells and War Crimes
So Your Favorite Character Is A Nuremburg Defendant: Game of Thrones Season 8 and Command Responsibility
AI is Coming, But What Culture Will Influence It?
The questions surrounding AI development are heavy on the why, the how, the should, and other things; but what culture would that AI would be operating from? Naturally the designer will be reflected, but something as complex as culture meeting the complex world of AI, there are new questions to answer for both fields.
In Search of Anthropocene Ethics
The world faces unprecedented ecological challenges, and humanity remains largely lethargic to respond. It’s time to adopt a new sense of ethics that acknowledge our collective effect on our pale blue dot, and which account for the quality of the land our progeny will inherit.
Is Undercover Reporting Inherently Unethical?
Paging Elizabeth Picciuto! Paging Elizabeth Picciuto! We have an ethics emergency!
Questions From the Headlines
When headline writers use questions, Burt Likko answers them. Briefly, completely, and unabashedly expressing his own opinion. Ten questions about politics, the business of news, news of business, and grizzly bears.
Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion
I’ve never done this before — promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got a pretty decent thought out there.
A Sore Test of a New Conviction
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be “justice,” vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit will you find.
T1 – 004: Three Cadaver
We detached the sternocleidomastoid and infrahyoid muscles from their sternal and clavicular insertions. Then, I took a manual bonesaw and cut through the clavicles at their midlengths…
This American Life, Carmen Segarra, and the Federal Reserve Bank: an Episode TBTF?
Zic listens to secret recordings made by Federal Reserve regulator Carmen Segerra, and finds herself with more questions than answers.
T1 – 003: Two Cadaver
by Christopher Carr, the second part of a series on the dissection of human cadavers
The Photoshop Lawyer
Another bar discipline report leaves Burt Likko reeling in slackjawed amazement.
T1 – 002: One Cadaver
by Christopher Carr, the first part of a series on the dissection of human cadavers
The Failure of Just War Theory
Instead of calling just war theory a fraud, as Damon Linker does, I would call it a failure.
The Irrational Logic of Christ
Should the total, unconditional self-emptying exemplified by Christ be the logic of the Christian life?
