People Think Morality Is Declining. Surveys Suggest They're Wrong.
Asked about people in general, respondents perceive moral decline. But when asked about specific acts or people in their personal worlds, the data tell a different story.
Asked about people in general, respondents perceive moral decline. But when asked about specific acts or people in their personal worlds, the data tell a different story.
The thinker's views of human sympathy, beneficence, justice, and the division of labor still resonate.
It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.
If you want to abstain from drinking or observe the Sabbath, then abstain from drinking and observe the Sabbath.
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In new studies, many people "reported that morally good beliefs require less evidence to be justified, and that, in some circumstances, a morally good belief can be justified even in the absence of sufficient evidence."
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In a world in which terms like common sense too often serve as covers for coercion, the power of no is underappreciated.
We need to leave ourselves room for making good when we inevitably convict the wrong people.
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
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By rejecting classical liberalism, Sohrab Ahmari and his ilk deny the dignity of the human person.
Political theorist Jacob Levy reminds us that the arc of history doesn't always bend towards justice. Moral retrogression has happened before, and could well occur again.
The George Mason University economist and Marginal Revolution founder explains why a richer world is a better world.
Does the right to self-defense apply against agents of the state?
Must we have cultural commitments as well as political ones?
"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.
A amendment from Democrats says no state money can go to defending the law in court.
A group of coffee industry workers sues Everett, Wash. over city's new anti-bikini ordinances.
Otherwise, with Trump as president, America would never recover from the moral damage
"Our findings reveal widespread suspicion that morality requires belief in a god."
Everyone should be highly skeptical of state-sponsored eugenics.
Perpetually raging about the world's injustices? You're probably overcompensating.
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Algocracy and the moral and political legitimacy of government decision-making
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The strangling of free, open commentary on Islam in Europe has had an impact that is as predictable as it is dire.
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For those ages 30-44, it rises to almost 10 percent. But most Americans still think prostitution is "morally wrong."
Ordering people to reproduce in only government approved ways is tyrannical and unethical.
Taleb's anti-GMO precautionary nonsense is unethical and harms poor people
Fallacious arguments against developing and growing modern biotech crops is cause for great moral concern.
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Cosby's own testimony provided the impetus for prosecutors to reopen the case.
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The problem of programming ethics into autonomous vehicles