Category: Culture & Ethics
Anti-Humanism Infests the Environmentalist Movement
The 2008 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Keanu Reeves, is so telling.
Human Origins and Human Self-Image
It’s remarkable how many smart people condemn trends toward barbarism and irrationality in our culture without ever questioning the origins of those trends.
Your Personality Uploaded to a Robot Wouldn’t Be “You”
Transhumanism is a materialistic religion that seeks to attain the comforts provided by faith through belief in technology as savior.
“I Think We’re Alone Now”
Earth as a privileged planet and humankind as a privileged species fit together well with other lines of inference.
Some Bioethicists Are Not as Smart as They Think
Witness this attack by University of Ottawa professor Stuart Chambers on the disability rights advocacy organization Not Dead Yet.