Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
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Chaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different –…
God couldn’t be everywhere…
God couldn’t be everywhere, so He created mothers – or so the Jewish proverb goes. Mothers like, Las…
The Banality of Heroism
Philip Zimbardo, the psychiatrist in charge of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment has a new venture – he’s…
Save the Children
Butterfly Effects for Change – Part 3 – Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon From December 1940 to September 1944, the French…
Are Human Rights alright? Part 4
Imagine what might happen if the results of the Human Genome Project really rocked the world. People would stop…
Are Human Rights alright? Part 2
Many people throughout the world are still deprived of the most basic human rights. They don’t have food, shelter,…
Are Human Rights alright? Part I
The recent riots in the UK have started a debate about the nature and scope of human rights.…
The Principle of Principle
The best way to approach many issues, both in our private lives and our societies, is to spend…
Love is a Dynamo*
Love is not always a virtue. We can love the most inappropriate and destructive things, in the most…