Category: Culture
Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?
Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people.
Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”
A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program “sentient.”
How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe
Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause.
In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso
Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked.
Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion
Federico Carboni wanted suicide because he had no autonomy, saying in an interview, “I am like a boat adrift in the ocean.”