Ethics

I always wondered who she was and it came up in this AP article - bit of an oddball and not the kind of person you would think starred in one of the biggest cases troubling America at the time: https://apnews.com/25a89c0caf19df066ccfa8dc18e22a1a

1% of the world wakes up every morning to rollicking wealth. The other 99%-5 billion people- die a bit more every day as they struggle on with life. Tow pretty straightforward solutions here: 1.carpet Bomb the poor and the unhappy off the face of the earth, send them all to la la land, with the objective of not only finally helping them out of the dreary cycles of their unfruitful lives, but also open up vast new space and resources for the Deserving Remnant one percent. 2.Share all around, even up the wealth gap a bit. A world full of ONLY RICH PEOPLE- PARADISE? When you think about it, casting aside all morals for a moment, does that not seem like …

I recently saw "The Island," and just wanted to know what opinions other people have of it.

I've seen a troll roaming about For a definition see http://www.peorian.com/technology/technology-news/trolls-cyberbullies/1079-how-to-identify-and-defeat-an-internet-troll

Defining objective expertise on the matter is difficult as well. Take law degrees for example; You've got your Ruth Bader Ginsberg's and your Clarence Thomases. In Philosophy you've got people like Saul Kripke being published in peer reviewed journals before going to college and people with PhDs in some branch writing weird utilitarian arguments for why people should eat their babies, just for for the sake of being contentious. I'm at least an expert in following curiousity to the core root and how polymathy works, if nothing else. Yet I'm a highschool drop out who works on a farm. I mean you've got paid credentialed experts in most fields hired by some indust…

I myself do not like that man. He is perfect and ideal to be charged. Last week I heard on television how they said that a woman was released after 23 years in prison because the judges and jurors were wrong and the witnesses were just... It is easy to believe that Weinstein committed those crimes, but at the same time I would not be surprised if those women invented it because they just did not like him for various reasons. Can you think of any changes that would help improve..?

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Yesterday, the Brazilian Supreme Court accepted the embrionary stem cells research as legal. And again, the Science wins... and I can't understand why all those religious groups can't figure out that we're not killing people, just saving them from death. More one point to Brazil

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Hello, my name is Daniel McKay and I'm a philosopher from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I am offering a prize of $10,000 to anyone who can solve a philosophy problem that I have spent the better part of a decade working on. The problem of how to weigh freedom over different things within the normative theory of freedom consequentialism. This challenge is open to everyone, so feel free to share this around your departments and to anyone else who might be interested. The rules for receiving the money are listed below, and the problem itself is detailed in an attached word document. Rules: All solutions to the pr…

Nature 437, 794-795 (6 October 2005) | doi: 10.1038/437794a Special ReportThe 1918 flu virus is resurrected Top of page Abstract The recreation of one of the deadliest diseases known could help us to prevent another pandemic. Or it might trigger one, say critics. Andreas von Bubnoff investigates whether the benefits outweigh the risks. It is thought to have killed 50 million people, and yet scientists have brought it back to life. In this issue of Nature, scientists publish an analysis of the full genome sequence of the 1918 human influenza virus. And in this week's Science, researchers describe how they used that sequence to recreate the virus and study its ef…

Sort of scary. But! will such a rationale of interaction ever exist in this world, other than incidents like this? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69c_1324490734

The existence of Life on Earth is the only problem faced by life on Earth, discuss. I used to be a tree-hugging hippy, at least by my current values, life is beautiful, biology is fascinating. But then I realised that the higher order of complexity; the "balance", between good or bad, the great interconnection on all life on Earth, has no value. I argue that animal antinatalism; reducing the amount of animal birth to prevent poor welfare, is legitimate biology. Conservation is considered to be legitimate biology despite being a philosophy; it is an attempt at finding a biologically accurate version of morality to apply to wild animals, and I argue that …

A doctor has just been jailed for faking some blood test results: http://society.guardian.co.uk/publichealth/story/0,11098,1378756,00.html For there to be anydoubt over whether this doctor will be struck off shows the incompetence of the GMC. The GMC really is just an old boys club which will be lucky to survive another few years. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, which is both a regulatory and representative body has far better disciplinary procedures than the GMC (which is only regulatory.)

Many of you may think something like this is my favorite kind of topic. But I assure you, there's nothing farther from the truth. I would much rather be talking about an Ice Cream Social, Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas, New Years Eve, A Wedding, Birthday Party. Anything other than madness such as this. Can it be stopped? I doubt it. But it could be reined in to some degree if we tried. Tim McVeigh lived years and months too long after his horrific deed in Oklahoma. Another madman, who committed the Ft. Hood massacre will likely be around far longer than he should, for his "Unholy Deed". The Hinkley kid who gunned down Presisent Reagan? His life should have ended a c…

I would like to talk about the killing of animals and consumption of meat. This is generally unethical by itself, and the way the animals are treated today is EXTREMELY unethical, using very cruel methods. Man can survive without meat, and this way all the animals will be spared. Every kind of meat food can be copied in a vegeterian version, and it being even similarly as tasty. There are professionals in this field that can do this, it is not necessarily a common and obtainable thing. I think killing of animals should be against the law. And then tasty vegeterian food will be created massively and be obtainable. Making our society much more ethical and humane.

This thread is about the competitiveness of society, and the need for grades from early age, what I call the meat grinding machine. From the age of 6 kids are forced into schools, where the competitiveness is high, and also the demand from them, to bring grades and school accomplishment, mainly through tests they have to take. From the age of 6 they are thrown into the meat grinding machine. The parents want their kids to succeed, and push them towards the earning of good grades. The competitiveness is not just at school, but also at home, from their loved ones, from those who need to look out and care for them the most. Is this really the best system ? Why not a system o…

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What if some group of people who dislike some person will constantly call his phone number and pretend they made mistake and entered a wrong number? And in this way will block any useful calls to or from his phone? Police suppose to investigate a phone harassment cases, but what if people will always pretend they just entered a wrong number?

How can a person brutally murder another, and then only expect to be locked up in an asylum for the remainder of their life or until they are fit to stand trial? And all at tax payers expense? Me, I believe these individuals should be dispatched as soon as the law permits. The guy in question butchered a female psychitrist because she happened to be in the office he went to rob. A meat cleaver no less, to do the job. What I am saying is; where do we draw the line? If you are unfit to stand trial for such a murder, why should you be fit enough to live at tax payers expense for God knows how long? We shoot horses and sick cattle don't we? http://ww2.cox.com/myconnectio…

It seems majority of people on this forum support designer babies. I don't claim I do support it myself, but would be glad to know opinion of other people: if designer babies will ever become a commonplace, should humanity try to erase any difference between males and females and any sexual inequality by means of genetic engineering and modification? Should females become as tall, physically strong, having brains of the same size as males? Should they have the same ability to aggressive self-defense and military jobs? Or even humanity may go so far some day and endow females with ability to impregnate the males, making equality complete in this way? Or perhaps we ne…

This country is not in the best or worst condition it has ever been in, but it in a struggle to maintain a good standing. The links are a good indication of where we came from, and it's up to the people of this nation to maintain that integrity, or hand it off to the winner. Two different sittings, but the same version and message are in each. Some may need to hear them more than once before it sinks in, so give them a little time. http://thecountryclassics.com/jukebox/music/americana-by-moe-bandy-revisited

Many believe that the search for extreme lifespan prolongation is unethical on several grounds, citing overpopulation, depletion of resources etc. I want to live for centuries. In order to achieve this I need to eliminate ageing as a cause of death, and hope that I won't die from an accident or injury. But if ageing is eliminated, then it would necessarily mean that all age-related degenerative diseases would be eliminated as a consequence. So, those who oppose the search for an indefinite lifespan are de facto opposing the elimination of these degenerative diseases. Or, looking at this from another angle, many people I ask say that they would like to live heal…

hello would you consider it if a woman retained cell samples from a fetus that was aborted, but used the cells to clone the fetus at a later date and brought the child to term. ain't science wonderful strange thoughts mr d

The abortion debate has been largely centered about whether or not a fetus has all the rights of a fully-grown human being. Recently, I heard an argument from the pro-choice camp regarding rape victims even given that those rights are in fact secured to that fetus, which is what makes it interesting. It basically argues that even if the baby were a fully-grown human being, it would still be morally acceptable to abort in the case of a forced pregnancy. [disclaimer: please don't get offended, this is not intended to be politically charged at all, and the characters are in no way intended to reflect upon the practices of real people whose relationship therewith may be c…