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Ninjas and Arabic Women Need Not Apply

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 13, 2015 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Who is behind that mask? Man? Woman? Terrorist? (Sorry, i was supposed to capitalize these for effect.) You don’t know, do you? Actually, I do, because I have common sense. The odds are astronomically high it can be nothing other than an Arabic woman. Someone...

How Many More People Have To Die?

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 6, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture

Anti-gun arguments can no longer be ignored.  But before we tackle something so dear to red states and protected by an archaic parchment from a time before drone strikes, let’s use this same compassionate rationale to tackle a statistically greater, more...

The Consequences of Less Privacy

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 4, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism

This TED Talk is a series of pointed assaults on the “[[Nothing to hide argument]]”, and declares that lack of privacy actually changes our behavior in fundamental ways. An excerpt: The people who are actually saying that are engaged in a very extreme act...

The Importance of Intellectual Integrity

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...

TED Tuesday: Non-Violent Answers to Violence

by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 16, 2014 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture

This TED Talk talks about how to “deal with a bully without being a thug”, something that applies to both individuals and nations. It talks about channeling anger instead of fueling conflict with it. Much more could take away from the deeply meaningful...

Are Terrorists the Ultimate Attention Whores?

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...
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