Be it for tribe, nation, or race, barring people from the freedom to do any harmless thing they please is Oppression. Repressing half of ALL people, is an Atrocity. Wherever people are denied the freedom to learn, that entire civilization is likewise deprived of their contributions, condemned to the foulest of ignorance. Ignorance that, in …
Tag: politics
On Populist Apologetics for Imperialism
DISCLAIMER: While the USA is not the focus of this piece, it is not to suggest that we are ignorant of, or in any way attempting to justify-by-comparison, the history of its founding upon the backs of generationally enslaved Africans and amidst the systemic genocide of the native civilizations its national crimes, like the nuclear …
On Karmic Justice
The word Karma seems to have become very much a part of the common language. Non-Hindus and non-Buddhists tend to use it in the negative sense, of someone getting what is coming to them. Essentially, there appear to be three interpretations. The original religious one, regarding consequences from past lives the casual common-use bastardization of …
Sam Harris on Israel: An Ancient Tribalism in the Modern Day
The once excellent atheist/anti-theist moral philosopher Sam Harris, who had previously written intelligibly regarding threats from Islamist ideologies has, in recent years, lamentably exposed himself as quite tribalistic and hypocritical in his opposition to theocratic nationalism. Imagining himself a proponent of secular, liberal democracy and Universal Rights (and unquestionably believing himself to be just that) …
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On “Good” vs “Evil”
In brief, my position on this is a modified version of Bentham and Mill's views on Utilitarianism, as well as Socrates' on Ignorance as the root of evil (harmful) actions, and Immanuel Kant's on our universal responsibility to each other. See also Panpsychist Non-Duality and Sam Harris' "Moral Landscape". Basically, we must strive to minimize …
Israel and Palestine (Tyranny of the Minority): Part Two
Israelis and Palestinians are national identities; Jews and Arabs are ethnic identities; Judaism and Islam are religious identities. Two of these can coexist but not three. By the founding principles of both religions, unequivocal domination and/or total genocide of the outgroup is a divine mandate. Hebrew scripture: Joshua 11:8-23 “And the Lord delivered them into …
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Plant-based Prisons (An Open Letter)
Hello Ethical Comrades, I have been struggling to live my vegan lifestyle while incarcerated since my arrest for a horrific accident back in 2017. For two and a half years, while I was in county jail, and the most conservative court in the State was taking its time deciding my fate, I subsisted on under-cooked …
Two World Leaders – A Simple Script
My Fellow Citizens! I have come before you today to speak about the ongoing crisis in ________ and _________. While we should all be unequivocal in our condemnation of the heinous brutality of the _______ terrorists upon the helpless civilians of ______, we must likewise be steadfast against the retaliatory targeting of innocent _____ civilians …
The Helpless (A Prose)
It is an awful thing when your people are attacked by your enemies; when your young and your old are helplessly slaughtered inside the trap of useless shelters; when your women are raped with knives and nails; when the massive army of your tiny country somehow manages to somehow show up 6 hours too late; …
The Desert War-Gods: Israel and Palestine
One of the greatest friends of my life was an Israeli Defense Forces veteran who turned to hospice work after her rather disastrous tour. She was an irrepressible, exuberant, Mary-Poppins-like personality who was relentless in her passion to raise the spirit of everyone she met. She was killed by the Islamic State in 2016 doing …
Enchained Empirical Ethicist 