by Barry Fagin | Mar 31, 2014 | Politics & Law
{Published November 1st, 2012. The audio of a debate of this topic by this author and a contrary speaker can be found here.} The numbered amendments on Colorado’s ballot may not seem to have much in common. What could legalizing marijuana and limiting campaign...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 24, 2015 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
In a LinkedIn discussion on the allowance of extremist thinking, I suggested a line be drawn in terms of intolerance as a determining factor of clearly undesirable extremism. Why? Extremism is NOT hard to qualify. The line drawn between belief and fanaticism is when...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 14, 2010 | Psychology, Society & Culture
A while back, there was an article in the Boston Globe by Barbara F. Meltz, called “Criticism can eat away at a youth’s self-worth”. It contained some important points, but by being one-sided, it MISSED the overall point of criticism entirely,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 20, 2011 | Philosophy & Ethics, Psychology, Society & Culture
Hitler has been the most used and abused figure in heated debate since … well … Hitler. It was around the birth of the World Wide Web that [[Godwin’s Law]] was discovered, namely that as a “discussion grows longer, the probability of a...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 1, 2010 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2005} To the management of the Colorado Springs IMAX theater: Dear Sir or Madam, I write to beg you, in the strongest possible terms, to show the best science films that you can find. Especially if they mention evolution. The best films...