Category: Freedom
Genetically engineering ethical humans…
| August 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Ethics, Eugenics etc, Freedom, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Mind |
… as the only way to save the species? From Bryan Walsh at Medium: “Our morality and our moral dispositions evolved to stop us from killing ourselves within our small group and to make sure that we cooperated with our small group,” says Savulescu, the Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. […]
CT4: AK on morality: “Since the moral fabric is man made, all we are doing is seeing it change . . .”
Sometimes, one of our frequent objectors has a truly noteworthy letting- the- cat- out- of- the- bag moment that is worth headlining. In the still live CT2 thread, AK unwittingly exposes the incoherence and implied amorality of atheistical, evolutionary materialism when he comments in key part: AK, 80: >>Since the moral fabric is man made, […]
Fidel Castro passes on
| November 26, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Freedom, Geo-strategic issues, governance, Intellectual freedom, Politics/policy and origins issues, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
Overnight, his brother and successor Raul announced the death of the former longest serving non-royal head of a state. While we must condole with those who mourn, we must also recognise his very mixed legacy, as a Communist dictator leading a state that — per fair comment — has been very un-free and hampered in […]
The post-Brexit & post-Trump (etc.) “populism” canard
| November 19, 2016 | Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Free Speech, Freedom, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
It seems the impact of Brexit followed by Trump [= “Amer-exit” ?] is stirring up a sharp reaction in global halls of power, leading for instance to resort to a loaded, one-word, barbed dismissal of the presumed ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked masses: U/D: Let’s add a clip on the wave of upcoming elections […]
