by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 28, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
Vending machines for collectible Human DNA specimens? This somewhat bizarre TED Talk has more profound implications than it realizes, important unasked questions, ones the fill an unusual space between issues of privacy, choice, and patents. Do we own our own voice?...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 16, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
I find it frustrating that on so many encroachments upon rights and privacy we have gone from “it could never happen” to “it’s no big deal” in a single generation. The citizens of 1930s Germany were not all that different from you or I or...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 6, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Science & Pseudoscience
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 21, 2013} What does it mean to have intellectual integrity? It means you admit error, changing your mind when the evidence says you should. Someone who uses the trappings of science to masquerade as a scientist, but...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 18, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
If guns are really inherently a problem, a cause of violence, then why do police have them? They’re only for “killing”, right? Some people actually unthinkingly mouth this, glaring contradictions aside. But any time you can breach the emotional...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 11, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
Just a quick thought: Terrorism is about attention more than anything. Violence is the tool, and fear is the fuel, but in the end it’s about attention. On the micro level, I have never seen strangers so enraged as when they are angry AND ignored. Now I would...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 2, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk is one of urgent distinctions, namely that the attitude of Free Markets has a place in economics but not civic life. From corporatism to law to education, inequality is more and more based on net financial worth than standing as a human being and...