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A Moral Question

Video – We must begin to incorporate moral questions into our governing process or, as Oren Lyon says, you won’t have a process that is going to survive.

Minds Don’t Create Morality, Morality Creates Minds

Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease Waking Times People often think that something must have a mind to be part of a moral interaction. However, the present research suggests that minds do not create morality but that morality creates minds, which fires further debate on the illusion of self. Commonsense morality in our society is more tolerant of

The Virtue of Dissent: A New Concept of Moralism

Z, Contributing Writer Waking Times “Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.” – George Bernard Shaw “At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the

Religious Exemptions to Vaccines are Life or Death Rights

Sandor White, Contributing Writer Waking Times Over many years, the media and corporations have mounted a concerted effort to demean religious faith and to portray certain religious groups as dangerous to modern society. Darwin and evolution are often the means, pitting “modern science” against “religious dogma.” The problem is that “science” has become the pawn

Survey Shows How Easy it is to Get People to Reverse Their Moral Compass

Waking Times A simple survey trick can cause people to unwittingly change their views 180 degrees, even causing them to fight on the side of their new viewpoint. How does this under-the-radar trick work and is it possibly implemented on the people, but on a bigger scale? Last week, PLoS ONE reported the results of

Are Cows Still Being Forced to Cannibalize?

Elizabeth Renter Waking Times  It’s illegal to feed cows food containing beef products. That doesn’t only seem common sense, doing otherwise almost seems inherently evil. It’s not moral grounds on which the law was written, but in an effort to control the spread of “Mad Cow Disease”, also known as Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy (BSE). Mad

Balancing Act: Sustainable Morality for a Better World

Adam Lanka, Contributing Writer Waking Times “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” – Albert Einstein A balance always exists. Our world lives and labors under

Expanding Our Moral Universe

That we can go back to a completely harvesting society is a pipe dream, similar to the nineteenth century dreams of infinite progress and complete social equality. But it is equally apparent that unless our moral decision-making does not encompass at least a larger part of our natural and social environments, we cannot achieve what we cherish and aspire toward.


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