Ignoring the crimes of the powerful/revered
I read an article on Kemal Ataturk. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-ataturk-path-to-islamic-modernity/ . It goes over his achievements.
Violence towards children in history
Childhood for most people was brutal. The notion of children as innocent and sacred and especially valuable is recent. From
Legal Disfunction: Immigration Edition
I watched a show following police enforcing immigration laws in the UK. They would find someone who was an illegal
Against expropriating the founder of wework
The founder of wework is held to be immoral and to have exploited and mismanaged his company, costing thousands of
2019: Year 2 in Review
Posts
Total Posts this year: 39 (+1 vs 2018)
Decent posts this the year:
* Roughly Book Reviews
* Against Bryan Caplan
Minimizing slack is not a good long term strategy
TheViz has a post on slack, the concept not the app. Slack as applied to organizations and teams is interesting.
Optimizing for learning vs education
There are two competing objectives to education. One is to grow as a person. The other is to gain things
Empirical facts can falsify moral beliefs.
I've usually assumed that moral beliefs cannot be disproved by empirical facts. That's not really true.
Two sides of rationality.
One approach to rationality is to seek nirvana. To be free from all desires, for one side or the other.
Solutions to the problem of suffering.
Assume god exists.
If a just god exists, how is it that evil exists in the world. A better question.