Just Deserts

With science and technology, we can either (1) explore lifeless worlds while creating one; or (2) do more with less while nurturing life.

Creative Blinking

Thinking outside of the box is easy when you realize that the box is simply a common delusion.

Simpleton Solutions

Don't like climate change? Take away funding from climate research!  Don't like poor people?  Make it harder for them to get government aid!  Don't like another country's ideology?  Start a war with it!  Don't like people asking uncomfortable questions?  Feed them propaganda, sabotage public education, and restrict their ability to protest!

Globicide

Humanity is unlikely to survive the continued diminishing of the natural world - not so much because we need its "resources," but because, in a real sense, we are diminishing ourselves as part of it.

Safety vs. Risk

In our culture, "playing it safe" is bad, and taking risks is good. If survival is valued as "good" and death is "bad," then it is bad if everyone either plays it safe or takes risks. On the other hand, most people playing it safe, and a few people taking risks, is good.

Dumb Defense

Ignorance doesn't absolve you of responsibility for your actions, it just means you're guilty and stupid.

Meaning of Death

If the goal of competition in Nature is to increase the amount and longevity of life, why does the goal of human competition appear to be the exact opposite?