Soon after, politicians at the upper echelons of the Canadian government rushed to express outrage at the incident, even though details remained scant.
What’s at stake if both the legal protection and cultural environment sustaining free speech continues to deteriorate?
The conservation of nature is an ethical imperative. Every sentient being’s welfare – human or non-human – should be taken into account in our moral considerations.
As explicit discrimination decreased, social scientists began proposing alternatives to explain remaining gaps.
If we hope to maintain our privileges – and work towards securing them for others – we must be aware of the bad ideas that threaten them.
The internet is not a TV station, a babysitter, a shopping mall, a kindergarten, or a support group.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation – by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that “life is suffering” and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely.
Walls are potent political issues today because citizens of afflicted nations are suffering real costs from illegal mass migration.
The claim that “hate speech” causes hatred, and thereby causes violence, is superficially appealing, but the more one thinks about it, the less sense it makes.
Where did the social justice advocates, and their associated attitude, come from?
If you are young, that typically involves re-installing an app like Tinder and giving the dice of fate another proverbial throw.
Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy.
The disproportionate backlash that Deneuve and her co-signers have incited is indeed a sign of the fracturing within feminism.
Happiness experts have argued that happiness is not a stable, unchangeable trait but something flexible that we can work on and ultimately strive towards.