Tag: ethics

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The Stain on the Shirt: Perception, Passivity, and the Weight of Goodness

Evil does not overwhelm the world, yet a single act of cruelty can feel larger than life—like a stain on a white shirt. Goodness is the quiet backdrop of daily life, but it gains meaning only when it resists. This essay explores the dichotomy of good and evil, the silence of the good, and the weight of responsibility that makes moral choice luminous.

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How Many Trees Make a Forest? Truth, Relativity, and the Blurred Lines of Perception

How many trees make a forest? This essay explores the blurred lines between subjectivity and objectivity, the relativity of perception, and the thresholds created by language. From forests to fairness, poverty to truth, we uncover how meaning emerges not in absolutes, but in the gradients and relationships that shape our shared reality.

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The Cost of a Pulse: When Healthcare Becomes a Weapon

When healing becomes a liability and prevention is unprofitable, what we call “healthcare” becomes something else entirely—a weapon of economic control. This piece explores the true cost of privatised medicine and why public healthcare is not just a policy, but a moral imperative.

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The Canyon Between Ideals and Reality: Manmade Morality, Ethics, and the Machinery of Order

There is a vast and often invisible canyon between the ethical ideals we claim to uphold and the lived reality of power, law, and social order. This post explores how our morals, ethics, and legal systems are not eternal truths, but manmade constructions—malleable, political, and often weaponized. To live ethically in a world built on contradictions requires more than belief; it demands confrontation, courage, and the refusal to look away.

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The Eight Axioms of Reason: A Framework for Thinking in a Fractured World

In an age of accelerating complexity and digital noise, reason can feel both urgent and elusive. We live in a world that talks constantly—yet thinks rarely. A world obsessed with being right, but unsure what right even means. The old maps of logic are still valuable, but they were drawn in a simpler time. Today,

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