#Moral

Zero HP Lovecraft

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A common misconception is that morality is "caring for your fellow man," but if in our time together I could persuade you of only one thing, my friends, I would

Duncan McLaren

mclaren_erc

In my chapter for “Has it Come to This: the promises and perils of geoengineering on the brink” https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/has-it-come-to-this/9781978809352 I seek to explain why promises of enhancing justice through #geoeng

Simon Ubsdell

SimonUbsdell

The moral case against Brexit is so obvious it shouldn't need restating but, given that even Justin Welby can't see it, let's run some easy tests.- Does it help the

David B. Easton

DavidBEaston

The way we think and talk about the accumulation of wealth as a virtue has its roots in The Protestant Work Ethic and has everything to do with the way

Ben Yong

BYMYong

Thread on jerks and UK politics. @eschwitz has a theory: ‘The jerk culpably fails to appreciate the perspectives of others around him, treating them as tools to be manipulated or

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clbolt

The Anabaptist Option:Neo-Calvinist Cornelius Van Til was a lifelong Republican voter, but couldn't crack the application of Reformed theology to politics. How does the Christian worldview manifest in the political

Kyle Garner

KyleGarnerMO

A good thread from a great Prof at Mizzou Law. A few points to expand upon without disagreement and one large point of disagreement. A thread/https://twitter.com/profthomlambert/status/1357192882676002817 Regarding the religion>culture&g

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

Violently overrunning police to storm the seat of government during a joint session of congress in a bid to overturn the result of a presidential election is categorically different from

joma | جوما

comradejoma

Kwame Ture on liberals"The way the oppressor tries to stop the oppressed from using violence as a means to attain liberation is to raise ethical or moral questions about violence.

Xeni Jardin

xeni

There is another aspect of our shared trauma to consider. Moral injury. When I was a kid I was traumatized by witnessing my father brutally beat other family members. Yes,

Yeerk.P ❤️

PYeerk

Shit like this really makes u realise that so much of what seperates 'dangerous' conspiracy theory from Science™ is the literary register in which the information is presentedhttps://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1326690035450716163

Philip Purser-Hallard

purserhallard

Some more stray thoughts about this Joss Whedon business. Firstly, I've seen people saying, "Lol, I always said Whedon was a hack." Well, perhaps they have (though if so, they're

Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi

RJELevi

Read this thread--on biblicist Jan Joosten's conviction for child porn and how his work is actually entwined w/that. As a sexual ethicist who also does text I want to focus

Terezi Pyrope and Celeste

NihilistPanther

Fuck it, thread explaining anti-moralism, what it is, and why morality sucks. What is morality?morality is a system for the ascription of the essentialized qualities of 'goodness', 'justice' and 'merit'

CHRIStmas with the king

theodramatist

I do wonder now if “The Spirit of Christmas” is a necessary consumer capitalist mythos to absolve people for their (necessary for the holiday) excessive consumption. That there is a

Ken Boessenkool

KenBoessenkool

I took a pretty vitriolic run at this piece in an earlier tweet, and got taken to task for denigrating rather than debating. So here’s a thread quoting from the

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