The Countless Dilemmas in Bioethics
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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

Making a One-Sided Promise, and Detrimental Reliance
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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

A Nudge in the Right Direction
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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

Avoiding Exhaustion and Burnout
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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

Squabbling Siblings, Loving Siblings
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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

Ethical or Problematic Issues in Reportage
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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

How To Be a Better Judge of Character
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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

Don’t Dismiss What Someone is Going Through
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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

Power From the Elite to Ordinary Citizens!
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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

War, What is it Good For?
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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

Crash and Fad Diets, and Yoyo Dieting
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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

If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On
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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

The Ease of Which Something Comes to Mind
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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

The Path from Poverty to Prosperous Production
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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

Comfort and Perceived Hardship
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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

Multitasking and its Effect on Productivity
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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

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