Australia votes NO to Nazi ideology, but there is more denazification work to be done. Australians must now focus on eradicating numerous instances of Nazi ideology in the legislation and improve the understanding of Nazi ideology in the education sector and in local government.

It is not possible to reconcile with people for whom equality is not enough. Before reconciliation is possible, people have to come to the understanding, by argument or experience, that equality is their best possible option, and this of itself is already reconciliation.

How the War on Terror works.

Team A:

1. We must eliminate the terrorists (Team B) at any cost, or 'our people' will never be free of terror.
2. 'Any cost' includes killing civilians, women, children, the sick and the elderly who happen to be in the way. We may have to kill everyone over there to liquidate the terrorists among them.
3. We know that killing civilians, women, children, the sick and the elderly will motivate a new generation of terrorists.
4. This way we invest in future terror attacks against 'our people'.
Go back to 1.

Team B:

1. We must eliminate the terrorists (Team A) at any cost, or 'our people' will never be free of terror.
2. 'Any cost' includes killing civilians, women, children, the sick and the elderly who happen to be in the way. We may have to kill everyone over there to liquidate the terrorists among them.
3. We know that killing civilians, women, children, the sick and the elderly will motivate a new generation of terrorists.
4. This way we invest in future terror attacks against 'our people'.
Go back to 1. (It is a business model)

Paul Offit deleted my comment:) at least he knows WHAT he deleted and where he stands in the hierarchy of right vs wrong. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical

Last week, this comment was uncontroversial. This week, ‘they did it to themselves’ echoes on both sides of the Wall. https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/3308

If “trans women” cannot safely use men’s toilets because males are dangerous to women, then “trans women” must not be allowed in women’s toilets because males are dangerous to women.

There is no better advertising for equality than Aboriginal white supremacists expressing their frustration with not being equal enough.

Ethical Realism

The value of human life consists in our self-reflexive capacity for intentional action. By discriminating between more of less valuable actions and choosing to act in a particular way we unconditionally affirm the value of being a rational agent. The commitment to the value of being a rational agent is a necessary condition of all other value-commitments, including the belief in God. It follows uncontroversially that without the capacity for rational discernment and intentional action there can be no awareness of value, therefore any life-form that does not possess this capacity can have no meaning or value to itself. This is a crucial insight for ethics, as it presents us with an objective reference point with respect to which we can asses the value of any human action. If ethics stems from the awareness of the value of rational consciousness, and the value of all actions derives from this common source, then any action can be assessed as either Right or Wrong on the basis of enhancement vs. diminishing of rational consciousness. Moreover, if rational consciousness is not individually self-sufficient but requires (reflexive) social relations to construct meaning and therefore rationality, then our relationship to other beings of the same kind is subject to objective ethical criteria that can be discovered.

https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3737433

We do not need one world government to save us from one another, but only to realise that one set of rules governs all meaning, and that all being is meaning.

The primary mistake made by people who contest the existence of viruses is that they take science to be a form of knowledge of what ‘exists’. This is not the case. Existence is a question of philosophy, ontology, or convention, not of empirical science. Science is a system of abstractions and their relations, constructed to predict how a particular action can bring about a particular reaction. The inputs and outputs only need to be real (we generally agree on those, for example, on the reality of our headache and on the physical existence of the colourful pill taken to stop the pain); all the theoretical steps in between need not be real, but merely symbolic transformations for consistently achieving the desired outcome.

We should not ask whether a theory is true (no theory is true in every respect), but in what sense it is true and in what sense it is false. When a 'better' theory is created, the sense in which it is true is more relevant to conscious agency, and the sense in which it is false is less relevant to it.

All those who fail to resolve existential disagreements by rational deliberation will be compelled to fight to the death, and ultimately cancel each other out. It seems the time we were given to deliberate is nearly up.

Terrible things done by groups of people are a force of nature, because ‘humanity’ is still to a significant degree just a blind force of nature. At some point no resistance to mass aberration is possible; one can only step out of the way. The primary moral challenge in times like these is not to become what one hates, not to become just a force of nature.

Anthony Fauci receiving a prestigious ethics award is great news for ethics. When ethics associations and academic ethics organisations confess that they have become the anathema to sound ethical judgment we have the opportunity to free ethics from the clutches of these corrupt associations. People will start to think ethically all by themselves, no longer able to rely on the opinions of some Centre for Ethics without looking like a fool.

BREAKING NEWS: An indigenous white supremacist lashes out for not being allowed to play Weekend at Bernie’s with Aboriginal ancestors.