A vegan and anti-speciesist society is based on a somewhat simplistic view of the animal world. And its principles cannot be implemented in a globalised world.
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Children lying is rarely cause for concern and actually means your child is developmentally normal.
The scale and brutality of Trump’s family separation policy was like nothing that has gone before.
It is just as much for our own sake, as for the sake of robots, that we should begin recognising the rights of intelligent machines.
Children develop a sense of morality as they grow, similar to how literacy and numeracy skills develop over time and with practice.
South Africans expect former president Zuma him to take responsibility and remedy his undemocratic and unconstitutional behaviour.
While people often want to cheat in certain cases if it would benefit them, they also want to think of themselves as honest. Here are three steps to stay honest while filing taxes.
While emergency drills may help schools feel safer, they contain underlying and often unintended moral messages about the nature of school and life itself.
Humans have long been trying differentiate themselves from the rest of the biological world. Is it because we’re superior, or just insecure?
Social and economic inequality is a serious threat to the sustainability of liberal democracy. It cannot be addressed by declaring that identity claims are democratically suspect.
Individually rational actions can lead to collectively undesirable outcomes. Rethinking our individual moral obligations as forming part of a collective pattern of action can lead to positive change.
Technology isn’t value-neutral. Unless we understand the ethical assumptions behind our technology, we can’t trust the solutions it offers.
Too often, we automatically dismiss ideas with unsettling implications. We need to focus on evidence, and on ordinary fairness and compassion towards others.
We are not yet “post-truth”, but truth-telling remains vital in sustaining open and democratic societies.
The greatest moral challenge of our time is our flawed conception of morality itself.
Conservatives on migration claim that allowing the DACA recipients to stay shows disrespect for the law. The moral principles that underlie the American legal system, however, tell a different story.
When we include someone (or something) in our moral circle we feel a sense of moral obligation for their treatment. But the factors determining who is in or out are more complicated than you may think.
Power imbalances and inequality lie at the heart of the international development industry. But the Oxfam scandal shows that organisations mustn’t succumb to it.
The debate around photos of two Nigerian Salafi clerics taken in London wasn’t a trivial conversation about dress and recreational choices. It was loaded with symbolism.
Schools have a duty to teach children morality, but which moral values should they teach?
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