What I learned in Legal Philosophy is that you shall not create an ought out of an is, which is very plausible to me. Beyond that this dichotomy did not bother me practically.
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How do we construct a personal ethical framework that honors empathy, fairness, individual autonomy, and accountability…
How do we construct a personal ethical framework that honors empathy, fairness, individual autonomy, and accountability without allowing one principle to consume the others?
The Open Question Oct 21: Will billionaires c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ prevent the next violent revolution?
In two weeks, Californians vote on Prop 40, a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state’s ~200 billionaires. Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna have introduced a federal version, a dozen states have pushed millionaire or billionaire taxes this year including four that passed.... Honest question What do you know about world history in regards to the same crimes, atrocities? It is very easy to go down the dark negative rabbit hole I’m not saying to dismiss what has been done but to properly form an argument you have to look at both sides of the coin What... When is there a person? yeah this feels like a root question. and then what are the rights of people? and do they change as they age? in some ways, obviously; we make every decision for our children, and one big part of the process of parenting/them growing up is one of letting... SHADOW is only seen in the LIGHT 😳🫣🤫🫵
True righteousness is only manifested in the shadow of profound wrongdoing…😶🫵
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What is social justice? The problem is that it is very subjective. It’s like saying what is fair. If you treat everybody the same then you are not treating everybody fairly. The term can be traced to an Italian Jesuit and it appeared in 1840 and was based in natural law.... - onI’m passionate about the power of storytelling—whether through music, writing, visual art, or conversation—to inspire change and bring people together. Much of my work focuses on women’s empowerment, resilience, social justice, and finding hope in difficult circumstances.byRolric...
Im interested in understanding how our humanity will catch up with technology. We've advanced so far in such a short time, our ability to remain human in that is being challenged.
I love this question. I think it's absolutely critical for going forward. Our material technology is too far ahead of our interpersonal technology, and eventually that leads to mass suffering.... - onHow should we think about AI and technological systems when the deepest problems are not computational but philosophical — involving attention, value, meaning, and the nature of the human person?bylightseeker...
Information Isn't Orientation That's an important distinction. AI may actually be quite good at synthesizing enormous amounts of psychological research and recognizing patterns that an individual human could never see. But that still leaves the deeper question untouched.... - Serpardum...
Heaven and hell is not punishment and reward, just separating people in how they want to live. Heaven is a place where people who want to help each other and not use each other all live in peace, with everyone helping each other because all the selfish people are not there.... - Paulleverich...
What strikes me most about this isn’t the word “slut” or even the event itself. It’s the deeper contradiction you’re willing to sit with. We live in a world that loves putting people into neat little boxes: religious or secular, respectable or promiscuous, traditional or... - WCDurbin...
If we could finally know what animals are really feeling, what would we do differently, and what might we prefer not to know?
Not sure I'd want to know what an animal was thinking just before it was killed to put meat on my table.
- onHow is it we can celebrate anything while human beings are still dying from drugs and homelessness? by
I want to add, I see why celebrations can feel like betrayal when people are dying from drugs and homelessness. That moral anguish is valid to me. Celebrations look like negligence when children in our cities are suffering from things we should be able to fix.... - JustJacki...
Absolute Power and its Relationship to Corruption
I love today's alchemy post: “When a leader profits hugely while in power, what would actually change your mind about whether that is a problem?” We're supposed to think on this together. My gut reaction is it would depend entirely on how that politician made that huge profit.... - Michaels706...
Altruism is believing that love of your neighbor and goodness will prevail in rewards over self-centeredness. In my opinion.
What the Pope said on AI, and where it leaves us
Last month Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's about artificial intelligence, and what it might be doing to our sense of being human.... - onok, not to be a downer or start a fight or offend anyone , I just would like to ask if anyone here has thoughts on the global political scene. I am 58 and have never given two fucks about politics because I just always knew it was a joke, a scam, a game being run on the people. But the moves lately have caught my attention. Yet, I do not watch TV at all. for almost 10 years. Because it is an tool used to control perception and thereby behavior. And I like to be free from control. I have some very radical beliefs, but I am always interested in learning how other people feel and think about their life. I know I am intelligent enough to believe I do not know everything and also that every belief I have now has been expanded from something that came before it so all of my beliefs are subject to be expanded. so if you engage with me be prepared to not take anything I say as something I expect you to adapt to. I have strong feelings, radical beliefs, and I would love seeing if anyone else is fed up with the entire system as I am. 🤸🤸🤸🌼byccsweb3...
Why must it all come down to right/wrong or agreeable/disagreeable. That truly implies there being a foundational, rooted, moral(like) almost universal agreement. Which Thank the Loveliness there is not..... Read the full post - Paulleverich...
Natalism
The natalism debate often sounds like four different conversations happening in the same room. One group looks at declining birth rates and sees a long-term civilizational challenge....