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Are we ethically obliged to help North Korea? – Dee

December 3, 2015 askmeMorality

I personally think we do have an obligation to help in cases where we have the knowledge and the power to help. I don’t believe those conditions are met in this case. Helping another sovereign[…]

Why do we continue to evade the truth? …Are we dumb or are we evil?

May 28, 2012 askmePhilosophy

Everyone in the Western World and beyond knows that we hold the key to personal/societal/cultural/financial transformation. We know that everything we do is wrong. Instead of going out and doing exactly what we should, ie[…]

what is life ? i am not able to understand the things around me. i am not able to define myself, my position.

November 24, 2011 askmeIdentity

In the old days, prior to Individuality, your Identity was entirely a function of what slot your community plugged you into. You might be the Village Idiot, the Village Chief, the Village Medicine Man, the[…]

Science

November 10, 2011 askmeScience

Third in a series on ending war. If Sport can neither take the place of War, nor of Consumerism, then how about Science and Technology? Together they compose a powerful economic engine, with advances in[…]

Sport

November 3, 2011 askmeWar

Second in a series on ending war. The most obvious and ancient substitute for War is Sport. The origins of the first athletic game are lost in the mists of history, which means that Sport[…]

I grew up in a generation that vowed never again to go to war. And yet here we are, in it up to our eyeballs all over again. It doesn’t seem to matter who’s in office, or how many protests there are. When will it ever stop? *

October 27, 2011 askmeSocial Change

In the previous series of blog posts we explored the question of why unemployment is so high, which led to the ways in which Consumerism is coming to the end of its usefulness as an[…]

The Cake is a Lie

September 29, 2011 askmeThe Economy

Tenth in an ongoing series about the deeper reasons behind the difficulty of finding work After reading last week’s post you may be thinking that War is such a wonderful thing that we should just[…]

War, What is it Good For?

September 22, 2011 askmeThe Economy

Ninth in an ongoing series about the deeper reasons behind the difficulty of finding work I’m a huge hippie pacifist. But with all due respect to those great Motown songwriters, Mr. Whitfield and Mr. Strong,[…]

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