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Discrimination: In Sport and Work Ethics is entirely about discrimination. In sport we do not have intermixed chaos. Men and Women competing in most sports. Lighweight boxers fighting heavyweights. If a women or men, by no fault of their own have unusual genetics, then this may make it unfair for th...

Mechanical Altruism An altruist person or society is altruist because that is what is believed. Albeit, pragmatically, he and society may have unworkable or inadequate ideas of altruism in its application. Altruism that is adopted in obedience to authority, even where termed ‘god’ is mechanical and ...

Time and Freedom In retrospect, it may eventually be decided unsurprising that the material world can be expressed in dimensions, and the ethical world in values that are much like dimensions. And that we do not directly experience elementary values or dimensions, but only in they way they relate, a...

Beyond Life We may well be approaching the time when robots will be walking the earth and it will be impossible to decide, at least externally, whether they are sapient beings or biological constructions. They may be made organically, or even constructed like machines. p**** them and they will react...

The term Free has a purely mechanical meaning as a wheel that is free. Or that people are capable of doing or acquiring something. It also has an ethical meaning And that can only be expressed in ethical terms, as defining the social-personal purpose that it is used for. And the social purpose is no...

God is a term that can mean the reason for existence. But if it is held to mean something that causes or creates the universe then it needs a reason for how it exists. What then needs explanation is why anything exists and that includes space and time. Rationally we must start with the absurdity of ...

Happiness We may all walk about the world with silly grins on our faces while the earth collapses in ruin. Happiness is an emotional state and it is not an ethical value. It would be excellent if all people were justifiably happy, but that would require a world managed in a way beyond imagination. A...

A Confluence and Melting Pot of Cultures A good travelogue and documentary of Sicilian history is currently on TV It is seen as a confluence of cultures and a melting-pot. But there is a problem here. It was what it was because of being a fairly small place, at the centre of much more vast areas of ...

Rights and Religious Freedom Do the rights that are promoted have priority over the ethics expressed by religion? Are the rights merely an amalgam of values expressed by religions where they happen to agree? Does a community of a particular religion have the right to educate for and ensure conformit...

A Corpus of Meat Religions have had their fashions and the ‘secular’ religion of today has its fashions. Usually by being selective of values. Objects are not good or bad and are have moral equality in that respect. A corpus of meat is in that category, with all human being equal as objects. But we ...

Objects and Ethics and Equality and Tolerance In the altruist society all people are equal, but everything they do is open to criticism or legal redress for its purpose. Within the bounds of what is tolerable everything must be open to criticism, with the freedom of individuals to disassociate thems...

Altruism There appears to be little reason to doubt that Altruism is seen or approached and defined from three different directions. Only one of which is comprehensively complete. Individualists tend to see it as an expression of feeling between individuals. Society is merely a sum of individual int...

Political Rhetoric Nothing is more tedious than political rhetoric. Its focus today is largely on the subject of trade, with free-trade vaunted. But it is patently obvious that nothing is free if it is regulated, unless the regulation simply says ‘hands off’. The tripartite significance is plain eno...

Patriotism Trumped President Trump has vaunted the idea of Patriotism and Nationalism. The great problem with the term, Patriotism, is that it is favoured everywhere in all forms of state-society. Therefore, it is almost certain to be flawed in its usage, or inadequate ethically. From the vantage po...

President Trump Speech to the UN 25/9/18 His rampaging oration which no doubt left many delegates bemused no doubt proves one thing. How difficult and even impossible it is to talk rationally in a world that is wedded to the idea of politics-ethics as a simple dimension between the Left and Right. H...