Are Democrats or Republicans more caring about others? One study of the role compassion plays in politics provides some surprising answers. And then there were the outliers: Trump voters.
If you don’t want to be facing down an angry dinosaur, pay attention to what happens on screen.
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As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.
The #MeToo movement and more recent allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have posed questions about past conduct.
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Whether the sins of our past stay with us forever has become a pertinent question of our time. A philosopher argues we don’t need to carry our past burdens – although there are some moral conditions.
‘I helped my neighbour move yesterday - you can’t rescue everyone.’
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Friendship requires that we be open to our friends’ ways of seeing things, even when they differ from our own. Is being a good person necessary for a good friendship? Who is a good person?
Many believe their morality comes from their religion. But evidence suggests that people’s opinion of what God thinks is actually what they believe is right and wrong, not the other way around.
Salon de l'agriculture, Paris (2007).
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A vegan and anti-speciesist society is based on a somewhat simplistic view of the animal world. And its principles cannot be implemented in a globalised world.
“No, I didn’t eat any cake.”
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While people often want to cheat in certain cases if it would benefit them, they also want to think of themselves as honest. Here are three steps to stay honest while filing taxes.
A police officer portrays an active shooter with an assault rifle loaded with dummy rounds.
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While emergency drills may help schools feel safer, they contain underlying and often unintended moral messages about the nature of school and life itself.
A shepherd with his flock in the Netherlands.
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Social and economic inequality is a serious threat to the sustainability of liberal democracy. It cannot be addressed by declaring that identity claims are democratically suspect.
Large-scale adoption of a plant-based diet could have a great impact on climate change mitigation and anti-microbial efficacy.
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Individually rational actions can lead to collectively undesirable outcomes. Rethinking our individual moral obligations as forming part of a collective pattern of action can lead to positive change.
Modern surveillance cameras can use artificial intelligence to identify targets.
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Too often, we automatically dismiss ideas with unsettling implications. We need to focus on evidence, and on ordinary fairness and compassion towards others.