Tag: evil
The Ultimate Zinger: Just Call Something ‘Evil’
Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.
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We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen
We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.
What connects Trump’s likely arrest with the bank bailouts?
Let's start with multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and follow the money.
3 children, 3 adults killed in shooting at Christian elementary school in Nashville
If thoughts and prayers alone worked to stop gun violence, there wouldn't have been a shooting at a Christian elementary school. It's your actions - including weakening the state's gun laws - that's killing kids in Tennessee.
Researchers develop method to permanently destroy toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in water supply
“The results we obtain from these real-world field studies will allow us to further optimize the technology and have it ready."
English lawyers refuse to prosecute climate protestors in ‘declaration of conscience’
“Young lawyers are being placed in an impossible position. We’re being told by our firms and regulators it’s a professional obligation to act for fossil fuel projects, knowing that doing so will poison our own future and all of life on Earth."