I would say that there is a large variety of types of freedom, and that freedom itself is relative. No one is absolutely free; for instance, no one is free from eventual death. Things that make people relatively free includes …
Category: Sustainability
Boycott Amazon
At left are a few good reasons not to shop from Amazon. I use eBay, so as not to make this world an even worse place than it is now.
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Bizarre Moments in Western Philosophy
Schopenhauer’s pessimism is essentially everything he left us, and his quote here is representative of that. We can’t change our birthplace, but does anyone want to do that anyway? We can change anything else about us that we choose, and …
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Humans Are Unique, and That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing
Perhaps a biologist would be better qualified to answer the question at left, but I would say that none would rule. I.e., humankind is the only species that imposes its dominance over others. Predators kill to eat, but they don’t …
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How Is it Possible that the Stock Market AND Human Misery Can BOTH Be Rising?
Apparently, there are people who believe that wealthy investors actually give a s*** about human suffering.
Countries Without God
A couple of months ago, I happened to ask a friend who had emigrated from Sweden if she was religious. “No!” she exclaimed. “Almost no one in Sweden is religious.” As we see at left, there seems to be a …
The Wrath of God
Ever since I was a small boy, I wondered: What makes a loving God wrathful? Why would He be pissed at nonbelievers? Since He gave us intelligence, shouldn’t He be fine with people who simply didn’t see enough evidence to …
Hard Times for Plant-Based Meat
Plant-based meats, which once seemed destined to help us reduce our consumption of slaughtered cows and lower the vast ecological damage that the beef industry is inflicting on our planet, seems to have failed. Beyond Meat, which is the only …
A Metaphor on the Natural Forces that Support Human Life on Earth
I met a guy yesterday who told me, “We live on this planet at the generosity of the forces of nature. These privileges can be withdrawn at any time, and without notice.” I thought that was clever.
Progressivism
Everyone living in the United States benefits from our federal, state, and local governments in many dozens of different ways, from roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, banking insurance, help for veterans, national forests, public schooling (K-12), firefighting, criminal justice, fuel pipelines, …
