I feel like I cannot be the only one who is disgusted every time I walk through someones exhaled cigarette smoke while walking on a public sidewalk or entering/exiting a public building. In populous areas, this equates to every few steps. People crowd around the doors to their establishments, which happen to be right on the sidewalk, and…
How to Build a Just Society
I was re-reading a part of Moral Landscape this weekend and came across a concept I had not shared yet. It’s the idea of building the ultimate society by creating all the social structures, advantages, disadvantages, tax codes, rules, laws, etc.–but with no knowledge of who you will be within it. So you build out whatever the world…
Is It Wrong to Have Children?
I’ve thought a lot about having children over the years. Not so much whether I wanted to have them, but why people in general want to have them. More specifically, I’ve been trying to determine whether or not it’s becoming immoral to do so. Everyone knows that once a good parent has a child they become rather selfless.…