I have been thinking about a few things this week. This post can serve as a reminder to write something about them in the future. I think there’s an important connection between having a good life and the accumulation of “defining moments”. Of course it’s self-evident that defining moments in one’s life are what one [...]
Draft of an essay I may or may not get around to finishing. No guarantees as to readability! Click more if you really want to read my idiosyncratic ramblings.
What I’d like to know is the percentage of people that are pro-life that also eat meat. By my reasoning, it’s brazenly hypocritical to say an unfeeling, unconscious, undeveloped, barely existing foetus deserves more of our respect than a living, breathing animal which can feel pain, is conscious, does feel happy and sad and does [...]
The flaw in my previous post is my assumption that in order for us to make a legitimate judgement on irrationality, we have to be able to say all irrational decisions are bad. This is wrong. In order for us to generalise in such a way, it is just necessary only to assert that because [...]
Something I think that people often underestimate both the truth and significance of is the fact that human beings are not always rational creatures. All the time we make decisions that are not rational, yet often the first criticism we make of other people’s decisions and actions is that they are irrational. I think that, [...]