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Is business... immoral?
This is not merely a theoretical question for me; it has become quite personally relevant. You see, I am the inventor of a technology, a simple, yet new technology that has the potential to benefit millions of people. I … -
Placing a value on a human life
I've recently been viewing the online video course "Harvard's Justice with Michael Sandel"; in Episode 2 the concern is about cost-benefit analysis and utilitarian calculus more generally. The first example offered is … -
Of rights and research, rats and undergrads
<!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->[JD 2455107.25] PeTA2 recently gave a presentation onthe (alleged) horrible abuses of animals in scientific and medicalresearch. I wasn't able to… -
Nature via Nurture
[JD 2455103.40] Proof we are not genetic automatons:I can speak English. I wasn't born speaking English, I had tolearn it. I could just as easily have learned Spanish or Arabic orMandarin, as indeed many people do. … -
I need no further reminders of my mortality.
[JD 2455103.21] Nor is there any justice in the livesthat chance and malice take. Anna List, 17; Jared Zumbrun, 18. Eachbrilliant, creative, kind—I saw so much of me in them, and mostlythe best parts of me. One murde… -
The AVP model of geopolitics
[Julian date 2455086.]I just started reading BenjaminBarber's Jihad vs. McWorld; I can't help but think that thisconflict fits the tagline for the first Alien Versus Predatorfilm:"Whoever wins, we lose." Themov… -
Why "it's a metaphor" is not an answer
If you are an atheist, and you haveever tried to argue with religious people, no doubt you've heard thisclaim: "Of course it isn't really true; it's a story, ametaphor." This is meant to diffuse any empirical, logical… -
A fundamental argument against abortion
The more I think about abortion, theless I can morally justify it. I don't think it's fair to call it"murder"; but I do think it is deeply immoral, indeed thatit should be illegal, punished on par with something like … -
What it's like to have a penis
Because it is a significant time spentalone performing routine tasks, the shower is often a site ofcreative thoughts. Because it is a place of nudity, sometimes thesethoughts turn to one's own anatomy, and its place i… -
An actual exchange, I'm sad to say
[names have been removed; however, for reasons that will become apparent it is significant that I appear White and my discussion partner, K.V., identifies as Black.] K.V.: Today, Harvard University professor ( and pers…
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Virulent Senioritis
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A truly excellent analysis of theology
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