Jul24
Who kidnapped the IDF soldiers? Is it Hamas, or Hezbollah?
I am getting confused here.
How does Lebanon, a free market country, have anything to do with the kidnapping?
And why do civilians’ infrastructure, like roads, and airport get whacked?
I thought only terrorists target civilians. Why does Israel kill civilians?
Can anyone from both sides enlightened me of what’s going on?
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Jul2
In front of TV, I saw a bunch of people discussing the merit of the new anti porn regulations.
A Muslim candidate says that the anti porn regulation is not a Muslim issue. She argued that in US, the Christians oppose porn too.
This while in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, kids are free […]
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Jun8
Often we use words to describe abstract concepts such as good, bad, war, and peace. The problems then become classification problems where we classify events or objects into words.
Our boundaries of what count on those words are imprecise. When we use our intuitive boundaries, we will often see that the boundary of one word often […]
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Filed In: Education
Jun5
Facts are facts. Any beliefs, whether factual, imaginary, realistic, or preposterous, can and often are used as justification for many political acts.
You will think that those political acts are good, when they match your interests. You will think it’s bad when it doesn’t.
So, we can agree that some beliefs are used to justify some “good” […]
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Apr17
Different individuals have different ideas of what is fair.
However, some ideas have certain very practical consequences.. Fair means you’re good to those who are good to you and bad to those who are bad to you.
We should be fair within that definition. Why? So people are good to us.
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Apr13
Many people want to prohibit porn and prostitution. Some do so to protect religions and morality.
We can only wonder. Stealing and robbing are also immoral. Religions also prohibit stealing. Why there are no terrorist that commit suicide bombing to kill thieves, burglars, and robbers.
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Filed In: Unmasking Moral Prejudices