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How One U.S. Soldier Blew the Whistle on a Cold-Blooded War Crime
William Langewiesche dissects the murder of four Iraqi prisoners, the military's response, and how one warrior fought to become a better man.
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21 Republicans Voted Against a Torture Ban
The opposition in the effort to make sure that American interrogators never inflict severe pain or mental anguish on prisoners again
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Justice Clarence Thomas cites NFL player’s memoir to support executing mentally disabled man
Even his conservative colleagues John Roberts and Samuel Alito thought this was odd.
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Is Porn 'Morally Acceptable'? Almost Half Of Men Say Yes, Women Less Accepting, Sex And Relationship Survey Finds
Polled American men and women almost agreed on the issue of sex outside wedlock, but disagreed on the morality of pornography.
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Dehumanisation is a human universal
You don’t have to be a monster or a madman to dehumanise others. You just have to be an ordinary human being. By David Livingstone Smith. (2014)
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The Anatomy of Hell
The power of the “Holocaust” as a concept has all but obliterated other aspects of the crimes of the Nazis and the sufferings of their victims and driven the history of the concentration camps from cultural memory. By Richard J. Evans.
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Why we need Arnold Toynbee’s good life
As the dreams of Silicon Valley fill our world, could the dowdy historian Arnold Toynbee help prevent a nightmare? By Ian Beacock.
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Commonly prescribed drugs affect decisions to harm oneself and others
Healthy people given the serotonin-enhancing antidepressant citalopram were willing to pay almost twice as much to prevent harm to themselves or others than those given placebo drugs in a moral decision-making experiment...
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Are killer whales persons? The more we learn about orcas, the more our assumption of innate superiority looks like a presumption
They have big brains, complex social structures, rich emotional lives -- how can we still hold them captive?
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Healing a Wounded Sense of Morality
Many veterans are suffering from a condition similar to, but distinct from, PTSD: moral injury, in which the ethical transgressions of war can leave service members traumatized. By Maggie Puniewska.
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The Logic of Effective Altruism
Opening the Debate: Peter Singer. Responding: Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Jennifer Rubenstein, Larissa MacFarquhar, Leila Janah, Emma Saunders-Hastings, Rob Reich, Paul Brest, Iason Gabriel, András Miklós, Catherine Tumber. Reply: Peter Singer.
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Dead on the 4th of July: Time for a revolution in Philly crimefighting
Those pop-pop-pops you heard in Philly on July 4 may not have been fireworks. But there are ways to bring the murder rate and police brutality down at the same time.
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Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
The scathing report, commissioned by the American Psychological Association, says the C.I.A. used prominent outside psychologists to quell internal objections. By James Risen.
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How Could God Have Screwed Up Morality?
This idea of mistake-proofing has been around for 60 years within Japanese manufacturing, where it’s called poka-yoke. We can apply this idea to Christian morality, where it’s glaringly absent.
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Preventive Wars: The Antithesis of Realpolitik
“Like torture and genocide, preventive war is a foreign policy option which civilized countries deny to themselves, at some cost if necessary.” By Michael Lind.
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“These People Need to Know What We Have Gone Through”
The victims of crime who go to prisons to confront criminals, and why they do it. By Mark Obbie.
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Sola fide: Does Christianity always promote morality?
When I was chatting with Linda Calhoun at the goat dairy, she brought up the “justification by faith, not works” issue as an argument against religion. What kind of God, she argued, would forgive someone who lived a life that harmed others (Hitler is the classic example), if that person simply confessed on his deathbed that he accepted Jesus as a personal savior?
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The moral failures of America’s prison-industrial complex
Barack Obama toured the El Reno Federal Correction Institution in Oklahoma last week, making him the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. He took the occasion to reiterate some points from his lengthy speech about criminal-justice reform, delivered earlier in the week before the NAACP in Philadelphia. He was philosophical, too, as he reflected on the way some young people end up in prison for mistakes...
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This Device Brings “Brave New World” to Life
A new implant that wirelessly delivers drugs directly into the brain brings up challenging questions for neuroethicists. By Zachary Siegel.
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U.S.-Taliban Fight Goes On, So Guantánamo Detainee Stays, Court Says
A judge found that an accused Taliban fighter may still be held even if the administration considers the United States’ war in Afghanistan to be over. By Charlie Savage.
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