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Comment by Chris G on February 21, 2011 at 11:35pm

- just for conversation:

The Chimpanzee isn't the only sub sapien.
The Bonobo is a kinder unstudied genus.

Comment by T A A on February 21, 2011 at 6:34pm

sorry :)

LoL my intent was really to keep it focused on ethics revealed by gamer motivation as opposed to the impact of games on society, whole other debate!

Comment by T A A on February 21, 2011 at 10:08am

Saddly, I agree :(

Comment by Jaume on February 21, 2011 at 9:37am

Why should we care about Kant?

 

Short answer: we shouldn't, because abstract reasoning is useless. Brute force, that's what drives the world.

Or in other words: because Immanuel Kant, but Genghis Khan.

Comment by Don on February 20, 2011 at 1:44pm

Jerry Coyne (author of WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE) is one who remains convinced that Obama is a closeted atheist, partly because of allusions to nonbelief he has made in his books and partly because, as others suggest, he would not have gotten far in politics if he had not declared himself a Christian. 

See this:  http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/obama-is-still-a...

Pete Stark may be the only out atheist in Congress, but Bernie Sanders, the junior senator from my own state (the country's least religious state), Vermont, is known to be a secular humanist--though he would not invite distracting condemnation by commenting publicly on his beliefs. 

Comment by Jaume on February 16, 2011 at 10:48pm

It's not that big a concern in my neck of the woods, where secularism is a given, and politicians keep their religious feelings private - when they're religious at all. Guess I'm lucky.

Comment by Herk on February 16, 2011 at 10:31pm

That's easy. Crippling religion so that those who can think can run the world. If we have intelligent people at the helm we can't help but improve things. That means promoting atheism and secularism and stonewalling efforts like the latest bill in SD to make it legal to kill abortion doctors. How crazy is that?

Comment by Jaume on February 16, 2011 at 10:15pm

With so many members, I think time is ripe for a big poll. What is, according to you, the biggest moral challenge of our times?

 

I'd cast my vote to reforming the socio-economical model we chose post-WW2: consumerism; mass advertising; planned obsolescence; spending more than we own; turning oceans and third-world countries into waste dumps; and the absurd belief that a finite world is compatible with ever-increasing, infinite growth. Do we want our children to inherit a dilapidated planet?

Comment by T A A on February 1, 2011 at 5:15am

Oh how I miss my 80s OMNI subscription! so much fun :)

Comment by Jaume on January 31, 2011 at 10:39pm

Crapping or not crapping is not a moral issue.

I'm not so sure we don't subconsciously attach moral 'values' to the byproducts of our physiology. Read this short story, and then try to figure out, say, Kirk and Spock's reaction to their discovery of a new sentient species made out of fecal matter.

"They're made out of shit..."

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