I have a tendency to keep a whole bunch of tabs open in Chrome that I want to think about or talk about more. I have not been doing a great job of blogging, there is much else taking up a fair bit of my time these days. Including the band. That being said, I
I've mentioned this a few times on Twitter, and I think I'm going to expand a bit here. Fear-mongering is nothing new on the part of the media. We need to be careful though when the New York Times throws a figure like 10,000 Swine Flu deaths since April. 10, 000 seems like a big
I'm not sure if this is an original idea. I'd be surprised if it is. I've just never heard any discussion of it before. My idea is this, instead of yet another fare hike for the TTC, the City of Toronto finds a way to put tolls on the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway. These
It seems like basic courtesy is a dying art. A friend of mine is in the process of organizing an event. He sent out an email to the invitees. Almost immediately someone replied with two snarky sentences about how he should change the options, options people. Like somehow his planning wasn't enough because he didn't
I had been thinking about this a lot recently. Some of the more right wing people I read from the States have been arguing that this crisis does not mean that the markets need to be regulated. While I have tended to agree with this I've often wondered about what regulations mean. Then I read
Today in my History of Psychology class we were discussing (or perhaps being discussed to) Neitzsche. I'm fascinated by his view of the consequences of atheism on ethics. So far as I can tell from Beyond Good and Evil Neitzsche* believed that when ethics meets relativism right is decided by the most powerful. So
I love G.K. Chesterton. N.T. Wright referred to him on a video I was watching today when being open minded came up. I searched for the direct quote and found this: Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on
I haven't had much time to blog, I'm on reading week, which is attempting to live up to its name. I've finally gotten around to answering my good friend Matt's (who should blog) response to my thought's on torture. I meant to keep it short but it kind of exploded. You can read and
For torture to be condemned requires absolute morality. Atheistic utilitarian ethics eliminates restraint in information gathering provided more lives are at stake than the one being tortured. As we have seen with nations like China and Soviet Russia, when God is removed from the equation torture becomes a viable option. Torture's use can be for
Biology is a history, not a science. Any thoughts?