EthoLiberal Society

The Catholic Church gained immense power during the Middle Ages, and it extended its financial power after the enlightenment took away...

Business and politics have always been linked. After WW2, it appears governments had real power over business and more importantly it...

The US trade wars benefit no one except Russia. Why are US Republicans going along with this? The modern Republican Party prioritizes...

Why do Republicans in the USA vote against their economic interests and stated moral values? This question has been widely debated in...

The economics of 2,000-years ago, and the economics of 1900’s and the economics of today are very similar. Why is that?   Because the...

This blog post is a continuation of "conversations with AI (ChatGPT)." Read www.EthicsDefined.org . Let me know when you have completely...

I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to have a conversation about ethical understanding with AI... you know, as one does. I...

Politics is acceptance of an imperfect world with imperfect tools and working to make a more perfect system to deal with pressing...

The book,"What Went Wrong" by B Lewis details how the Arab world rejected modernity because it thought its culture was superior to all,...

Updating mental models: Everyone, everywhere is critical to keep the world going. There’s a company in the Netherlands that makes...

Stupidity is willful ignorance. Avoid stupidity, don’t avoid being wrong. If you want to be right, i.e. have accurate mental models of...

Fear and ignorance are powerful, self reinforcing mechanisms of personal and group control. Fascism tends to take hold when it’s clear to...

Why are we here? What is this all about? Evolutionary explanation : We exist to grow, mature, mate, and produce offspring. The next...

Do your best.  Most people do things “good enough” …and if everything was done good enough, would anything be good enough? If you try...

External reality exists and there are facts about the world that we can be certain of. Ethical knowledge (know-how) is innate and ethical...

Ethical matters arise between two feeling entities over matters of harm/care and fairness/reciprocity. When discussing abortion, there...

Debating someone who entertains magical thinking is an exercise in futility. If they want to engage with you, or if you want them to...

The world is complex. To make sense of the world we construct ideas of how things work; termed “mental models.” Mental models are your...

Let's say you are in the military. You are dropped off in a location and given a map of the drop zone and surrounding area. You parachute...

Are all feelings created equal? Let's explore the moral intuitions and confusion relating to disgust. Disgust is an interesting, often...