Tag: Society
Freedom, Reality, Morality…
An ideally free society isn’t a utopia where there would be no murderers and no rapists. There will most likely be humans exhibiting excessively anti-social behaviour for as long as mankind exists. Investing resources towards the eradication of crime as a concept is the broader problematic approach that comprises absurdities such as the “war on [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2010 under Free Speech, Politics.
Tags: Crime, Free Speech, Freedom, Morality, Reality, Society, Utopia, Violence
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Thoughts on Radical Feminism etc.
People in “civilised” societies seem to think that men and women are somehow two different species living on the same planet – and somehow “owning” that planet… but that’s a different issue. This post is more or less about radical feminism, and incidentally racism.
Posted: November 6th, 2010 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Ethnocentrism, Feminism, Humanity, Ideology, Life, Patriarchy, Racism, Sexism, Society
Comments: 3
Rethinking Education
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 [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Education, Law, Politics, School, Society
Comments: 2
Redefining Maturity, Part 2
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 [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Adulthood, Law, Legal Age, Maturity, Politics, Society
Comments: 9
Adulthood: Redefining Maturity
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 [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Philosophy, Politics.
Tags: Adulthood, Law, Legal Age, Maturity, Politics, Society
Comments: 7
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