Metarationalist Ephemera

An aspect often overlooked in normative theory is the intricacy of irrational feelings and personal reality. The boundary between “feelings/intuition” and “objective perception” is a murky one that most ideologues like to conveniently ignore. Politicians are unlikely to become politicians under the assumption that they’re not objectively right as to what is best for everyone. [...]

5 July 1996: Dolly, a sheep cloned from an adult somatic cell unknowingly kicks open the doors to the realm of legal chaos. When Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Scotland proved that a single cell was capable of reproduce a whole body, they were probably too caught up [...]

An insight on the current educational system or why and how it should be radically changed. Education as it is known in developed countries has been the object of much debate and subsequent changes throughout recent years. Yet, we, the authors of this article, are convinced that it is not close to being a step [...]

In the first part of this article, we tried to redefine the way in which a member of society is considered a legal adult, hinting that major changes would have to occur for such a reshaping of society to be achieved. In this second part, we will try to offer some insight on some of [...]

Preamble All over the world, the concept of adulthood has been intertwined with legal age in what is in reality a slapdash way of deciding when one acquires control over one’s person, decisions and actions, and terminates the legal authority and responsibility of the parents (or guardian(s), in lieu of parents) over the child’s persons [...]