This is a historical post. One thing that has weighed on my mind a lot is that I believe the existing ethics of journalism are…
Category: Morality
This is a historical post. In this post, I continued to look at what I thought “tolerance” was. As previously mentioned, “tolerance” is really an…
This is a historical post. I wrote it before even reading The Fabric of Reality. It shows my interest back then in trying to understand…
This is a historical post. In my last post, I mentioned that I subscribe to Karl Popper’s ideas about “The Myth of the Framework.” So…
This is a historical post. In this post I was struggling to make sense of Popper. Agellius (a devout Catholic friend of mine) once asked…
In my previous post, I talked about the difficulties libertarians have even just agreeing with each other over what constitutes an ‘initial use of force.’…
Libertarians claim that the foundational moral principle of libertarianism is that it is immoral to “initiate force.” This concept of “initial use of force” –…
I am planning to sign up for Jeremy Howard’s Fast.AI Deep Learning courses. They are rumored to be excellent and, after finishing my Deep Learning…
One of my favorite ideas of championed by Karl Popper is what he calls the “truth is manifest” error. After describing how successful Renaissance epistemology…
Back in 1997, a movie adaption of the Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers came out. I had read the book but was put off that…