AB 1043 doesn’t protect children. It protects the appearance of protecting them, while creating real harm for the people it claims to serve. You can’t protect privacy by mandating surveillance infrastructure.
Hossenfelder raises valid concerns about the decline of scientific progress, but her analysis overlooks several critical systemic issues that may better explain the apparent slowdown. The current academic and corporate research environment actively discourages long-term research projects, particularly those extending beyond a single researcher’s career span. This creates a fundamental misalignment between scientific advancement and…
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s moral. Likewise, just because something is illegal doesn’t make it immoral. Laws are often grey. That’s the topic of this segment.
One of my favorite plant groups on facebook has been flooded with BLM posts. The group’s rules are that nothing but plants questions should be posted. It’s a public open group, so anyone can post anything, even though the honor system suggests we should only post about plants. What’s happening here?
Each of us gets a vote. Sounds fair right? Well, I’m here to tell you, it’s not. Hi, this is Chris, the Amateur Ethicist, and on this channel we discuss the crossroads between convenience and technology. If you’re into that kind of thing, why not subscribe, like and share. But I just said our voting…
If you could make it so your party would win every election, would you do it? Would you take the steps necessary to fix the vote so that even if your party became a minority, it would still take a majority of legislative seats?
We can’t all be the smartest person in the room, Right? Hi this is Chris the Amateur Ethicist. Today I’m talking about what it takes to become president, and a common sense view on voting for one. On this channel, I talk about the crossroads between convenience and technology. If you’re interested in that kind…
