#Virtue

Indic Kartavya

IndicKartavya

Thread: How to Whitewash Mughal Kings: Lessons from NCERT Grade 7:Step 1: Paint a grand picture of the family lineage Step 2: Mention only the military success of a King

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

It's hard to describe to people who weren't politically aware during the Bush years and some of the Obama years -- there was a very strong war fever then that

Nitin Gupta

Nitin_Rivaldo

Speaking truth to power (in ur industry) is the real anti establishment act. Becoz that affects ur livelihood directly.So, for a bollywood actor/director/singer. Its easier to speak against PM

Theric Jepson

thmazing

Lines allegedly written by Democrates follow in this thread: "It is beautiful to impede an unjust man; but, if this be not possible, it is beautiful not to act in

Brad Edwards

cbradedwards

A vitally important thread. Much isnt new, but is so in the air we breathe we forget how RECENT it is & therefore how unaccustomed we r to coping w/it.

Julia Galef

juliagalef

One underappreciated difference in worldviews:When judging other people's virtue (or lack thereof), do you grade on a curve?For me it's "yes" - I think it's almost-by-definition impossible for 90% of

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Willyoubegome

The modern push to give people cremations or other alternatives to burial is evil Most importantly are the religious implications, but another thing is the fact that even in death

Robert Patrick Lewis

RobertPLewis

Fortune 500 companies are not likely to give millions of dollars to an organization without a healthy amount of due diligence. What if an executive made the decision to donate

Jonathan Birch

birchlse

Here are 10 philosophy articles I liked in 2020, in no particular order (a THREAD with links). 1: Do animals have a concept of death? @Susana_MonsO sets out what it

Mori

moritheil

Let me talk about this explicitly; this is #marketing 101 and story writing.If people are HAPPY, FULFILLED, and HAVE A PLAN, the subtext is "these are people you want to

A Little More Optimistic

Lazybastid

This is my first real experience with tech businesses doing, I assume, what is the tech business way of doing things and...woo. It's a lot of "let us all reason

Ben Wrobel

BenWrobel

Stephen Colbert is smart enough to know not to do this. This is virtue signaling of the highest form, and he’s doing it for ratings. Very dangerous. IGNORE HERhttps://twitter.com/nicolehockley/status/1355240901845594112 “Holy

The Virginia Project

ProjectVirginia

Hey, I'm all for "unity".If any of y'all racist Democratic Party Nazi Communist antisemitic white supremacists want to talk, door's open.Let's have a nice long talk.a nicelongtalk Genuinely confused as

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

The thing about the objections people are throwing up to the combat wheelchair is that almost all of them (and I'll get to the exceptions) fall into the pattern I

Jack Schneider

Edu_Historian

One of the misconceptions I run into most often is that private school teachers are better than public school teachers. Untrue.1/ Private school teachers, who are untrained, derive prestige from

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

This is why I so insistently rail against individualist perspectives on the pandemic. The problem with that mentality comes into sharp focus when you see cruel statements like this from

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