When I was doing some work in Germany in 2016, I took the local train from the quaint little German village where I was living to the neighboring town where I was working. The train stop was outdoors right across from a large grass covered field with a couple rolling mounds peppered with yellow flowers. …
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The animal rights movement began taking shape right around the time when humanity began to master its environment and people’s lifespan lasted longer than ever before. With never-before-seen luxuries and an improvement lifespan, the homo sapiens suddenly had the time to ‘think’ and so they did. Although human abuse was seen as customary and vastly …
Confirmation bias is the concept that people’s currently held beliefs bias how they process information and make decisions. Any information that agrees with or confirms their currently held beliefs will be processed and any information that doesn’t will be filtered out. Confirmation bias then reinforces people’s currently held beliefs and hinders critical thinking, innovation and …
Objectivity means the absence of subjectivity, a universal standard applied to everyone equally. Gravity is an objective physical law, jump up in the air and you will come falling back down to earth. In this context, can we say that morality is objective, is there a universal moral standard that can be identified and applied …
In the same sense that I don’t deny the existence of a god, I just recognize there is no proof of one, I don’t deny there was a pandemic, I just don’t see any evidence of one. I think it’s fair to say that if people had been dropping dead in the streets, nobody would …
There’s an ongoing cultural movement to convince fat people that they are healthy and beautiful just the way they are. They don’t have to live up to some unspoken social standard of health and body shape. There’s no need to change their lifestyle, no need to learn to eat healthy and get some regular exercise. …
Why do people make their bed every morning?Why do people wash their hands before they eat but not after?Why do people wash their hands after they use the bathroom but not before?Why is it disrespectful to wear a hat indoors?Why are some obscenities considered offensive but others aren’t?Why do men stand when a woman sits …
Remember when we were children in grade school, we were mean and selfish and loud and called each other names like ‘retarded’ and ‘stupid’. We talked over one another trying to drown out the other kids so we could get attention and the teacher would have to yell and bang something to get the class …
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The state’s justification for speed limits is always the same: “Speed Kills”. So let’s remove the appeals to emotion and other hysteria and sensationalism and examine that hypothesis with rational, logic and common sense. Let’s consider the extremes, if speed kills in and of itself then anyone who ever orbited the earth in a spacecraft …
For the sake of this discussion I define economics as the choices rational people make.[1] In other words, why people make the choices they make and not just fiscal decisions but all decisions. Why do they accept one job offer over another. Why did they choose to marry this person over another? Why do they …
