Post No.: 0416 Fluffystealthkitten says: Bioethics relates to the ethical issues arising from, the ever-increasing, advances in biology and medicine. There are innumerable dilemmas when it comes to bioethics. These include issues related to informed (or misinformed) consent, weak/soft … Read More
Post No.: 0415 Furrywisepuppy says: Let me try to extend on Fluffystealthkitten’s post on enforceable and unenforceable contracts in Post No.: 0305. I recognise that I may be vastly overstepping my expertise here but hopefully it’ll serve to … Read More
Post No.: 0414 Furrywisepuppy says: Education evidently isn’t enough sometimes to get people to do what’s good for them. For example, there are many health professionals who don’t even lead healthy lifestyles when they obviously know what they … Read More
Post No.: 0413 Furrywisepuppy says: Stress is a physiological and psychological response to a real or perceived threat. But not all stress is bad – short-lived, short-term acute stress is a sign of motivation and physiological preparedness, and … Read More
Post No.: 0412 Fluffystealthkitten says: Siblings frequently squabble with each other, particularly when young, and this is totally normal! Sisters and brothers who are within a couple of years apart in age, and who share the same gender … Read More
Post No.: 0411 Furrywisepuppy says: There are a multitude of ethical or problematic issues in journalism or reportage that we as the audience must be aware of. These include freebies – you may be surprised how many times … Read More
Post No.: 0410 Furrywisepuppy says: Everybody’s got a personality or character unless they’re dead! So what most people (narrow-mindedly) mean when they think someone ‘lacks personality’ is that they lack an ‘outgoing’ character. It’s like everybody has a … Read More
Post No.: 0409 Furrywisepuppy says: When someone is trying to express their feelings of depression, generalised anxiety, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or to other people, one of the worst attitudes and responses they can receive is, “Yes but…” … Read More
Post No.: 0408 Fluffystealthkitten says: To recap from Post No.: 0403 – to develop a productive economy from scratch, a population first evolves from: 1) anarchy, to 2) exploiting scale economies in violence, then forms 3) a tax … Read More
Post No.: 0407 Furrywisepuppy says: Perhaps due to a lack of better technologies or alternative ideas and solutions, there are situations when aggression is legitimate. Law and violence have an incestuous relationship – you cannot really have one … Read More
Post No.: 0406 Furrywisepuppy says: A huge variety of crash or fad diets will work to reduce one’s weight because there are limitless ways to reduce one’s calorie intake, for which a common way with such diets is … Read More
Post No.: 0405 Furrywisepuppy says: Some people worry that trying to critically analyse the things we enjoy that involve feelings and emotions, such as art and music, will ruin their enjoyment for those things. For others, it’ll potentially … Read More
Post No.: 0404 Furrywisepuppy says: Weirdly, if you ask people to list only 6 instances of when they behaved assertively then they will generally deem themselves as quite assertive people. But if you had asked them to list … Read More
Post No.: 0403 Fluffystealthkitten says: Economic development and production stalls under anarchies – it needs polities that are centralised and preferably inclusive. Inclusive means that they should serve the interests of everybody within the state, including ordinary citizens. … Read More
Post No.: 0402 Furrywisepuppy says: Near the end of Post No.: 0394, I briefly remarked that overly comfortable lifestyles can perhaps breed weaknesses in us because we’ll get used to a high level of comfort and this may … Read More
Post No.: 0401 Furrywisepuppy says: We are generally overconfident in our ability to do multitasking. Doing a lot of media multitasking is actually related to lower performances in formal tests of concentration and task-switching. There are auditory-verbal, … Read More
