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Many have argued that morals are relative, but Russia's war crimes reveal the hollowness of that belief. Morality is universal and objective.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
What if your best friend was an informant?
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
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Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
John Templeton Foundation
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
Turning away is a natural response.
Why, exactly, don't you trust that person's opinion?
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
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More than mindless bloodshed, the gladiatorial games were organized sports. Gladiators were treated as world-class athletes, receiving superior diets and medical care.
We're still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
There are two conceptions of free will: "straight" and "mixed."
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous "trolley problem," saying that it "hurts too much."