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    Image of Any monkey can be an artist
    Any monkey can be an artist
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    We experience art as an emotional reaction to our senses. Enjoying art has a personal meaning and relevance; therefore, we evaluate art differently depending upon our own values, perceptions, and kno...

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    Image of Short-selling - the protected companies
    Short-selling - the protected companies
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    (Meanwhile, as the Italian cabinet approves a tough austerity plan, and as Nero feasts while Rome burns...) According to the AP, "France, Italy, Spain and Belgium are banning short-selling on sele...

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    Image of A culture of dependence
    A culture of dependence
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Have we become a culture of dependence? As far as we can see, the "producers" continue to support the "non-producers" instead of, say, "going on strike." Why do people generally think that they have...

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    Why are laws binding on you
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    How can laws be legally binding on me if I haven't explicitly and voluntarily agreed to them? Why is it automatically assumed that I agree to them even though I didn't sign anything agreeing to them?...

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    Image of Pronouncing moral judgment
    Pronouncing moral judgment
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Sometimes it seems that the worse things get, the more we tolerate. It's not that we become impartial to a particular wrong, but it does seem that we often "sit on the fence" when we see wrongdoing....

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    Image of Most people don't vote
    Most people don't vote
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    For those of you who refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, take comfort in knowing that you're in the majority. Politicians are always claiming their wins indicate that "the people have spoken....

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    Image of Scary - facts don't change our minds
    Scary - facts don't change our minds
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite." Before you read this article to determine where that conclusion came from, ponder that quote for a moment...

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    Image of What's worth dying for?
    What's worth dying for?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace says, "Every man dies, not every man really lives." For thousands of years, people have thought about the values to live for. Aristotle suggest we should live...

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    How to solve problems
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "Always blame yourself. It's the only way your problems get solved." DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Mar 12, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=136...

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    Image of Society and the meaning of individual actions
    Society and the meaning of individual actions
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Libertarians are often talking about freedom and liberty. Thomas Jefferson claimed in his magnum opus the Declaration of Independence that we all have a right to liberty. But freedom and liberty aren...

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    Image of Galilei vs. Carlin
    Galilei vs. Carlin
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (aka the founder of the scientific meth...

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    Image of Political regression and the meaning of words
    Political regression and the meaning of words
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    John Adams once wrote "Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man...

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    Image of TIL Plato didn't believe in Platonic love and supported erotica
    TIL Plato didn't believe in Platonic love and supported erotica
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Today I learned that Platonic love isn't what we thought it was. In fact, Plato didn't even believe in it, was pro-sex, thought erotica was a spiritual force that helps us find our true selves, and e...

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    Image of The meaning of life
    The meaning of life
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Probably the most important question for most philosophers is what's the meaning of life. Although individuals have their own values that provide meaning to each, we don't yet have a verifiable princ...

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    Image of Japanese inspiration
    Japanese inspiration
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    If we don't stand for something, then we stand for nothing. In her famous novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand asks through Dr. Robert Stadler: "Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire?...

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    Image of The Davies Certainty Principle (Two-Minute Case Against The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle)
    The Davies Certainty Principle (Two-Minute Case Against The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle)
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Most of you are probably aware of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. It states that it is not possible to know the precise position and momentum of subatomic particles such as electrons. (There is...

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    Image of What is love
    What is love
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In honor of upcoming V-day (and maybe to give you something to talk about over dinner with your significant other)... Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The nobles...

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    Image of Civil disobedience against the censors
    Civil disobedience against the censors
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In his famous treatise On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argued that individuals can promote justice by disobeying the law. History is replete with examples of civil disobedience...

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    Image of Put on your thinking caps
    Put on your thinking caps
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a process of stimulating the brain with magnetic fields that changes/disrupts the way the neurons work. Is it possible to use TMS to unlock "hidden" cogniti...

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    Image of The courage of convictions - rational people don't agree to disagree
    The courage of convictions - rational people don't agree to disagree
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Politics. Morality. Religion. Relationships. Even science. These are examples of the many categories in which you will find disagreements. These debates occur just as much with intelligent people as...

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    Image of Suppressed war crimes
    Suppressed war crimes
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The cover-up of the Iraq war is significant. Whereas many of us suspected it, WikiLeaks has provided the facts to support the truth. And the truth is - the US government has been lying to everyone (a...

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    Image of If I voted, Ron Paul is the man I would vote for
    If I voted, Ron Paul is the man I would vote for
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    First, let me make this perfectly clear: I am an anarchist (or, more specifically, an anarcho-capitalist). I do not support any kind of government, including a president. The last election I voted in...

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    Image of Imagine... what a wonderful world it would be
    Imagine... what a wonderful world it would be
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Aristotle spoke of music as having "influence over the character and the soul." He noted that "Rhythm and melody supply imitations of anger and gentleness, and also of courage and temperance, and of...

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    Image of When what you're doing in economics doesn't work, just do more of it
    When what you're doing in economics doesn't work, just do more of it
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    You can call a fish a duck, but that doesn't make it so. Does anyone else find it funny that people claiming to be anarchists - which is, by definition, being against government - are rioting in su...

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    Our biggest regrets
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Forgetting to Live for Myself (http://www.mybiggestregretever.com/) My biggest regret ever is forgetting to live for myself. I've been selling myself out for the people I want to love me. My whole...

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    Image of Slut walks, rape, and hypocrisy - what's eye candy got to do with it?
    Slut walks, rape, and hypocrisy - what's eye candy got to do with it?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    How we do love eye-candy. And, after all, "since when is a woman dressing sexy in public a bad thing?" By now, you've probably heard about the various "slut walks" that are happening all over the...

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    Image of Mine! The never-ending fight over Palestine
    Mine! The never-ending fight over Palestine
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Obama is currently getting criticized because of his recent speech asserting that the US government officially supports a two-state solution based on Israel's pre-1967 borders along with negotiated...

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    Image of Feminism - doomed to fail
    Feminism - doomed to fail
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Is feminism doomed to fail? Is there even one accepted definition of feminism? Are there any benefits of feminism? FTA: "Although it is not Susan Pinker's intention in writing it, reading her exce...

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    Minorities
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life sta...

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    Why Philosophy Precedes Physics
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    A few months ago, I was discussing certain aspects of quantum mechanics with somebody. I got around to saying that certain claims within the realm of physics can be rejected outright on philosophical...

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    Image of Rejecting evidence to the contrary
    Rejecting evidence to the contrary
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozl...

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    Standards of love
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Have you ever seen posts on social networks where someone will say to all of her friends indiscriminately "I love you all!" or something to that effect? Well, if the Beatles were right, that all you...

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    Breaking the laws of physics - will philosophy become more important?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Just when you thought you understood how the world works, the tachyons come to shake things up. For those who haven't heard by now, the masterminds at CERN who brought you the LHC rap have made wh...

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    Rules for intelligent discussion
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Our Second Life intellectual discussion group is about bringing people together who like to think. We have wonderful discussions in group chat but, in an effort to constantly improve our discussions...

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    In Defense of Joe Stack
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Which do you consider more delusional: flying a plane into a government building in retaliation of government abuse or believing that the government exists to protect your individual rights? If yo...

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    An interview with David Eagleman, neuroscientist
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    A neuroscientist is someone who studies "the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, or molecular biology of nerves and nervous tissue and especially their relation to behavior and learning." Although the...

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    Political methodologies
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Is there a proper methodology to discuss politics with? DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Dec 13, 2009 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=54
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    The goals of mankind: the state vs. anarchy
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    As Murray Rothbard put it in his marvelous article The Anatomy of the State, "Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it as an amiable, though often inefficient,...

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    Learned helplessness
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman performed an experiment on dogs by shocking them with electricity which appeared to start and stop at random. After the dogs were conditioned, he put the dogs in...

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    In the name of the best within you
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the...

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    The examples adults set for children
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Why are so many children familiar with the adage "do as I say, not as I do?" The answer should be obvious - because we, as adults, often do things that we don't want our children doing. Let's face it...

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    Epic win - making a better world with video games
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "Gamers are super-empowered hopeful individuals." They are masters at figuring things out, even medical problems. So who wants to use gaming to change the world? There are many problems to address...

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    The last line of defense when the law is wrong
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    There's a button that some wear on election day. It says "I voted." It's as if voting makes them feel powerful. But the vote they cast typically isn't for a specific law - it's usually for a polit...

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    The unreasonable man
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw...

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    No such thing as society
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.'...

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    Desires are not rights
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    All economic goods must be produced by someone. They aren't gifts of nature or something that can be conjured up by waiving a magic wand. Somehow, people have gotten the false idea that it is governm...

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    Engineering the perfect human
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Recently, Harvard University had a panel discussing the legacy of the Human Genome Project. Started in 1990, and with scientists from six countries and initial funding of $3 billion, the project publ...

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    Relative vs. absolute morality
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Are there absolutes? If so, does absolute morality exist, or is all morality relative? Why or why not? What makes something an absolute? Do objective standards exist for morality? If not, should they...

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    Ron Paul didn't go far enough - unleash the retirement accounts
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Ron Paul just came out with a plan to cut $1 trillion from the US's federal budget and severely curtail entitlement programs. According to the "Plan to Restore America," it cuts $1 trillion in spendi...

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    Madly in love - is there a rational basis to love?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    We need a new demotivational poster: "Science. A quick way to mess-up all those great love poems." The definition of rational isn't very controversial: "having reason or understanding." The defini...

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    Is there justice in the world?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Louis Pasteur once wrote that chance favors the prepared mind. But is that the way it always works? Isn't it also true that, sometimes, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad...

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    The morality of helping the poor family - where does it end?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who "passionately" believes in the welfare system, is lashing out at parents who are raising their children through social welfare programs. He thinks the issue is a...

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    Atlas Shrugged changes lives
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Noam Chomsky said Ayn Rand was "... one of the most evil figures of modern intellectual history." Yet I find Atlas Shrugged an amazing book (and so do many others, like the man who recently drove aro...

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    Thinking about thinking
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Thomas Jefferson warned that "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." A high I.Q. does not necessarily transla...

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    Sports socialism
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Discussing sports, Noam Chomsky once remarked: "Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people so...

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    Better ideas - the Socratic method
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Socrates, the philosopher who claimed the contradiction "I know that I know nothing," provided us with a method to help us question what we think we know and to demonstrate otherwise: the Socratic me...

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    Let's raise the debt ceiling to $1 quadrillion
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Remember the guy who talked about change? Where'd he go? In 2006, Obama said this: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a...

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    What men are made of - 'ifs'
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Robert LeFevre is said "If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one." What is it that makes a good man? What are the aspirations of a good man?...

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    End justifies means?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The end does not justify the means; you cannot achieve anything good by evil means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. - Ayn Rand DISCUSS! Original posting...

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    Ayn Rand: The Wired Interview (1998)
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    I'm a month late on this, for the spotlight of public attention, but I have an Ayn Rand story, too. 11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked...

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    America's leading leftist intellectual is angry
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    "America's leading leftist intellectual" and MIT professor Noam Chomsky once remarked that "The U.S. is a leading terrorist state, as are its clients." He has said "that there is no War on Terror." H...

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    Beauty and the eyes of the beholder
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Many women like having big breasts. They also like looking good. According to the American Society for Plastic Surgeons, of the 13 million cosmetic plastic surgeries performed annually, women seek 9...

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    No way not to consent
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Many of you here have often made the claim that you consent to the "social compact" by living where you live, or receiving the benefits from the state that you do. How can you call it consent if ther...

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    Apathy - ignorance going through the motions
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Considered the third, best-selling poet of all time, Khalil Gibran once said "Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death." Apathy is defined as having a lack of emotion, interest, or conce...

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    Teaching robots to lie
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Technology is so grand. With the research from this experiment, we might finally be able to replace the lowest form of humans - politicians - with robots. After all, if you can teach robots to lie, t...

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    Political correctness, sticks, and stones
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    It's interesting to trace the history of controversial subjects. Take political correctness for example. Political correctness, "used to describe language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seekin...

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    Morals vs. preferences
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Morality is basically the principles/ideals that should direct everyone's conduct. What is it that makes moral fundamentals different than personal preferences (if there is, in fact, any difference a...

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    Ayn Rand vs. Mike Wallace - liberty vs. collectivism
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Ayn Rand warned us. She did it in her books such as Atlas Shrugged (and, to a certain extent, >The Fountainhead). She did it on TV such as in this famous interview between her and Mike Wallace on...

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    Child exploitation
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    If we are to believe UNICEF, there are about 158 million children aged 5-14 engaged in child labor, "working in hazardous situations or conditions." Most people give this a scary name like "child ex...

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    Other people are not your property
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Ron Paul has entered the US presidential race for the third time as a Republican. But he's not really a Republican - he's a Libertarian. Ron Paul, like all Libertarians, is always talking about limit...

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    People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The US government consists of a bunch of hypocrites. I know, tell you something you don't know, right? Recently, Hillary Clinton and her lackeys at the US State Department released the Country Re...

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    The morality of animal testing
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the movie Extreme Measures, a brilliant doctor attempts experimental surgeries on live patients (who eventually die), trying to find a way to help spinal cord victims walk again. I think most agre...

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    Feeding the homeless banned
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Meanwhile, as people in Haiti continue to starve in a country "occupied" by 10,000 aid organizations under the government umbrella of the United Nations (an organization designed for war)... They're...

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    The central tenet of morality
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Let's assume for a moment that morality is a system of values that a group of individuals (i.e., society) must generally follow in order to live. Let's also assume that the closer individuals get to...

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    Step-up and be a man
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Contrasted with being a "good guy," what does it mean to be a "real man?" Putting aside the obvious requirements of XY chromosomes "and a pair of testicles," what determines masculinity? Is there a w...

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    The rationality of alternative medicine
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    As many mourn the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, they use words such as visionary, brilliant, innovative, leader, entrepreneur, capitalist, and philanthropic to describe him. Many aren't aware th...

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    Religion and moral truths
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Can a moral relativist and moral absolutist have an objective debate on morality if you don't share the same core values? In physics, a scientist will say that time is relative, but he will not say t...

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    The Fountainhead Howard Roark speech
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to dist...

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    Hero worship - no cape required
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Through John Galt, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand discussed the "hero in your soul" in her famous book Atlas Shrugged: "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless s...

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    Your philosophical premises
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    What are your premises for your life? Have you ever thought of your philosophical base in concrete terms? What principles do you uphold and to which do you just pay lip-service? Were your premises de...

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    To criticize or not to criticize
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In order to avoid offending, is it proper to limit your criticism of someone's beliefs? Which is more respectful: critically examining someone's belief system or ignoring the topic to keep the relati...

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    How to get decent people to do terrible things - put them in positions of power
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Einstein once wrote that "our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears." Many agree. For example, David Hume suggested in A Treatise of Human Nature that humans are prone to letting emoti...

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    Is neurobiology making us morally ill?
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Getting people to agree on objective moral principles is difficult, to say the least. Moral codes seem to span the gamut of culture, time, environment, experience, geography, gender, race, etc. Could...

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    Reducing HIV/AIDS by eliminating IP laws
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the adventure film Sahara, General Kazim states: "Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa." In 2009, it's estimated that 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with almost 70% liv...

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    Is being a Libertarian hypocritical
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Libertarians and others who don't like government (e.g., anarchists) are always talking about limiting and shutting down government programs. Yet they continue to use the benefits of these programs....

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    Rats and the rat race
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the future, will you look back, shake your head, and regret that you didn't follow your passions? Feel that you went against who you really wanted to be? Don't wait until another New Year's Eve -...

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    The social contract defined and demolished in less than 5 minutes
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    By definition, a contract has to be an agreement. It's intellectually dishonest to call something a contract without an agreement. To paraphrase Lysander Spooner, a contract made hundreds of years ag...

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    Good form - etiquette and manners for politeness
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Good etiquette facilitates relationships, and good relationships help us live better lives. We've previously discussed proper manners in communications. Continuing in our etiquette and manners series...

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    Three cheers for capitalism - not two
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    As scary as it might sound, we already know that evidence doesn't matter much in the context of politics. So, even when there is clear evidence of a certain idea being factually true, many people don...

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    Dealing with pain during the holidays
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    The holidays are often difficult, and can be downright depressing, especially for those who have pain from a loss, a traumatic experience, or just plain loneliness (e.g., not having a date for holida...

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    What really matters in life - it should be our first lecture
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Life is a constant struggle, especially because the lessons we learn are oftentimes knowledge gained after we really needed it. It's one of the reasons mentors are so important - they've "been there,...

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    Abortion and rights
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the...

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    Good will among men
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In her interview with Playboy, Ayn Rand stated "My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in h...

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    Politics by Aristotle
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Written in 350 BCE. 'nuff said. FTA: "Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim t...

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    Mixed economy fundamentals
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    There's a funny sign that reads: "Confused Socialist Party. Smash capitalism! Then blog about it on your $2500 Macbook." All of the major economies in the world are known as mixed economies. You migh...

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    What happened to the "we" in "yes we can?"
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    How we do like to complain about politicians. We vote them into office (well, some don't vote) and expect them to change the world. To reduce war. To make our lives better. To keep their promises. Af...

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    Philosophy - Everybody Needs It
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    We deal with philosophy in one form or another, multiple times every day. For instance, every time we form an ethical viewpoint or act on such, we are forming a philosophical (ethical) idea or applyi...

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    If women ruled the world
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    Do a search on the web and you'll find all sorts of criteria for what makes an effective leader. People can't even seem to agree on the definition of leadership. As a result, theories abound. But wha...

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