How we evolved to have self-awareness Mental compartmentalization, is a powerful defense mechanism used to avoid discomfort caused by having conflicting values and emotions. I see the success of compartmentalization as resulting from …
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What is an object’s location, without a subject?Without a subject, what is the size, or present state of any object?An object without a subject cannot be pointed at, so where is it?Subjectivity places …
Social inequality creates a state of temptation that places those who are not tempted at an advantage. If society had limited your opportunities and your status so that the way for you to …
Part 1 – The Ethics of Intention “…good intentions in human affairs are often deceptive. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it is partly because that is the road …
An audacious call to ethical visionaries to shed moral camouflage Yes, I am with Whitehead that processes not objects best describe reality. We can only grind the neuronal roads we drive, to love, …
“Because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40 This is the universal path to moral development: Remember the least of us. …
If you are an ethical vegan you have probably been told that vintage leather is “your choice.” Implying that other aspects of being vegan were not a choice but somehow used leather is …
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Many argue that there is no universal ethics. It is commonly held that morality, like the word “mores,” just means what is customary, at best maybe social contracts, but beyond cultural habits and …
Morning flight to New York, my seat marinated in thousands of colony forming units per square inch, I breathe recirculated eructations from a menu of two and four-legged miracles of evolution that need …
