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Raccoons Invade Brooklyn
City law requires any of the animals that are captured to be euthanized in a humane fashion, but many exterminators and homeowners aren’t doing it. By Annie Correal.
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Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms
A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep. By Antonio Regalado.
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Stories that force us to think about our deepest values activate a region of the brain once thought to be its autopilot
Everyone has at least a few non-negotiable values. These are the things that, no matter what the circumstance, you'd never compromise for any reason...
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It’s Almost Impossible to Ethically Justify the Use of Animals in Research
A conversation with ecofeminist Lori Gruen by Dayton Martindale.
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Obama’s Anti-Torture Team Has One Job — And Nobody Wants Them To Do It
A congressionally-mandated initiative to overhaul U.S. interrogation strategy is bringing to light the frustrations -- and fragility -- of Obama's post-torture legacy. By Ali Watkins.
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Killings
A New Essay from One of Our Favorite Southern Writers — Daniel Wallace, Author of “Big Fish” — About an Elemental and Universal Dilemma.
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Victim of Obama’s first drone strike: ‘I am the living example of what drones are’
Faheem Qureshi was 14 when a drone attack on his home left him with horrific injuries, several family members dead and his dreams for the future in tatters. By Spencer Ackerman.
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From Pickup Artist to Pariah
Jared Rutledge fancied himself a big man of the “manosphere.” But when his online musings about 46 women were exposed, his whole town turned against him. By Rachel Monroe.
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Fresh Air: Today’s Slaves Often Work For Enterprises That Destroy The Environment
Kevin Bales’ book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment. With Dave Davies.
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Birth of the moralizing gods
“The gods of today’s major religions are moralizing gods, who encourage virtue and punish selfish and cruel people after death. But for most of human history, moralizing gods have been the exception. If today’s hunter-gatherers are any guide, for thousands of years our ancestors conceived of deities as utterly indifferent to the human realm, and to whether we behaved well or badly.” By Lizzie Wade.
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The truth about sex robots
Robots for sexual relations might seem just round the corner, but as Rose Eveleth argues, the reality is complicated.
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In Response: “6 Reasons We’ll Always Need Fast Fashion”
Dear PopSugar, I do not really believe your recent article, entitled, “6 Reasons We'll Always Need Fast Fashion,” warrants a response... However, to promote fast fashion in such a blatant manner without at least making mention of some of the truly atrocious byproducts with which it is so closely associated is simply irresponsible. As a result, I will do just that...
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Is a Surrogate a Mother?
A battle over triplets raises difficult questions about the ethics of the surrogacy industry and the meaning of parenthood. By Michelle Goldberg.
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The Untold Casualties of the Drone War
Former members of the U.S. drone program expose the hidden price of remote control combat. By Vegas Tenold.
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What Should We Say About David Bowie and Lori Maddox?
“Word choice is hard here. Should we say ‘raped’ automatically if a grown man has sex with a teenager? Does it matter at all if the 15-year-old, now much older, describes their encounter as one of the best nights of her life? What is our word for a ‘yes’ given on a plane that’s almost vertically unequal? Does contemporary morality dictate that we trust a young woman when she says she consented freely, or believe that she couldn’t have, no matter what she says?” By Jia Tolentino.
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One Ethicist’s Compromise to Stop Killer Robots
A Yale bioethicist says the United Nations won’t stop killer robots, but the United States could right now start setting a few rules limiting their development and use. By Patrick Tucker.
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I’ll Be So Proud When My Daughter Is President and Runs a Corrupt Oligarchy
Other parents might say they want their mediocre children to make the world a better place. But my girl is destined to do more than that, mostly for white people. By Kiese Laymon.
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Coming Out
A gay-marriage opponent changes his mind. By Michael Coren. (July ’15)
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The Psychologists Take Power
It is only recently that the claims of psychologists to moral expertise have come to be taken seriously. Contributing to their new aura of authority has been their association with neuroscience, with its claims to illuminate the distinct neural pathways taken by our thoughts and judgments. Neuroscience, it is claimed, has revealed that our brains operate with a dual system for moral decision-making. By Tamsin Shaw.
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Are Moral Facts Not Natural Facts? Everything Wrong with the Shafer-Landau Thesis
Is moral truth a priori and not a natural property of the universe? So says Dr. Russ Shafer-Landau (as articulated in Whatever Happened to Good and Evil in 2003; and Moral Realism: A Defence in 2005). Even though I’m sympathetic to his project, he’s just wrong. And not merely wrong, but too obviously wrong for this to still be a thing in 21st century philosophy. Here I’ll explain why I think that.
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