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More on the banality of evil

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

[In my browser, at least, several of my recent posts have disappeared, but I'll worry about that later.]
I’m reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, by Philip Zimbardo. I’ve blogged about Zimbardo’s work before, but I want to share a remarkable quote in the book by C. S. Lewis, in which [...]

Hope versus terrorism

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I am so thankful for the doctors, nurses, clinic workers and volunteers who risk their lives everyday to ensure that we have not only a “right” to abortion in this country, but the actual ability to get one should we decide we need to. The below letter-to-the-editor is from a long-time Ethical Society member [...]

Salads and SUVs

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Worried about global warming? Have a bean burrito. This Times article talks about how some vegetarian groups are trying to get the word out that the meat industry is worse for the environment than the auto industry. It also reveals that mainstream environmental groups are not promoting this information, because they don’t [...]