Abortion

• Majority of Americans are pro-choice: 

Animals

• There’s an app where you can walk someone else’s dog and get paid for it.

Anti-Natalism

• Listen to an interview with David Benatar about the Harm of Coming Into Existence.  Note: I’ve written about this before.

Death

• A very sad, yet telling story of a woman who found out she will acquire Alzheimers, and her decision to end her life before the disease overtakes her.  Just imagine this: “a mind that could be so alive one moment with thought and feeling building toward a next step and then someone erases the blackboard. It’s all gone and I can’t even reconstruct what the topic was. It’s just gone. And I sit with the dark, the blank.”

Emotions

• Being bullied as a child isn’t just a rite of passage; it has serious long-term mental health problems, more so than maltreatment from an adult.

Ethics

• How do meat eaters justify their meat consumption?  Through 4Ns: It’s natural, necessary, normal, and nice.  The paper also indicates that meat eaters were more tolerant of social inequalities.

Gender

• Early men and women were equal, says a scientist.
• Rebecca Reilly-Cooper on the political implications of gender.  Here is her views continued.

Health

• People who try to do change their health lifestyles for the better do significantly better when their significant other was also doing the same change.

Justice

• How America’s failing public transportation system increases inequality.
• 7 Things People Who Say They’re ‘Fiscally Conservative But Socially Liberal’ Don’t Understand

Marriage

• There is an assumption that having an open marriage may be detrimental to one’s health and well-being.  This study concludes that “[p]articipation (or interest in participation), in consensual non-exclusive sexual relationship styles can be rewarding and contribute to personal health and happiness, as much as or more than monogamous marriages.”

Philosophy

• Philosophy Bro is going to write Descartes’ Meditations.

Race

• A fantastic article explaining that reverse racism doesn’t exist, yet non-whites can be racist and women can be sexist.  Clue: it has to do with the difference between psychological racism and structural racism.
• An explanation how cops can still feed into institutional racism.
• How Thug Life leads into problems like Baltimore.
• Impressive!  Someone made a syllabus about the Baltimore uprisings.

Sexuality

• 11 women who helped change the way we see (women’s) sexuality.
• “For some, there is little innate temptation to cheat; for others, sexual monogamy is an uphill battle against their own biology.”  Read the article about how infidelity lurks in our genes.

Social Issues

• Many Americans are shifting to the left on many social issues.