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Category Archives: Ethics
Phrenology Is Legit: Wide-Faced Men Are Untrustworthy
From the Chateau: Researchers spanning many scientific domains, including primatology, evolutionary biology and psychology, have sought to establish an evolutionary basis for morality. While researchers have identified social and cognitive adaptations that support ethical behaviour, a consensus has emerged that … Continue reading
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Jews & Cheating
In the aftermath of reading The Israeli Mind by Alon Gratch, I watch the 2015 movie True Story. Twenty three minutes in, the protagonist, disgraced New York Times journalist Mike Finkel, says he doesn’t know why he invented stuff. Watching … Continue reading
Do The Strict Ethics Of Torah Make It Difficult For Jews To Compete?
“I know the Torah is pretty clear about certain practices. I know that the Talmud interprets the law in ways that may seem to contradict the letter, if not the spirit of the Torah. I know that business practices by … Continue reading
Should American Black Be Grateful That Whites Fought A Civil War To Free Them?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Ta-Nehisi Coates–among many others–insists that the American Civil War was solely about slavery. I haven’t read enough Civil War history to know whether that’s the case. One of the things that puzzles me about that … Continue reading
How To Spot Bad People
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Here are five biographical questions which can eliminate, IMO, 95% of bad people (based on my experience and seeing patterns): Did he or she grow up in a two-parent household? Are his or her parents … Continue reading
Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor
by Garrett Hardin, Psychology Today, September 1974 Environmentalists use the metaphor of the earth as a “spaceship” in trying to persuade countries, industries and people to stop wasting and polluting our natural resources. Since we all share life on this … Continue reading
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The Jewish Laws Of Proper Speech
I’m listening to some classes on lashon hara (forbidden speech according to Torah) on YUTorah.org and I am disappointed by how ignorant they are. YUTorah.org presents Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman as an expert in this topic. Fourteen minutes into one … Continue reading
Whatever Happened To Right And Wrong?
Elliot Resnick writes: In recent decades it has become increasingly popular in Orthodox circles to answer every question by appealing to halacha. Must I inform a cashier that she has undercharged me – what does halacha say? May I attend … Continue reading
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Are Jews Honest In Business?
WASPs are the most honest people I’ve met, closely followed by Mormons, Germans (including German Jews), Japanese and Koreans. Chinese in China strike me as duplicitous in business. Catholics seem to be all over the place. In my life experience, … Continue reading
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Do You Really Want To Become A Better Person?
I remembered how charged up I got about becoming a better person when I started listening to Dennis Prager on the radio in the fall of 1988. It’s been tough. My progress in this department has been spotty if at … Continue reading
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