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US drone bombings

mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 13:00

US targeted 24 specific men in Pakistan with multiple drone bombings each. The bombings killed only 6 of them, but killed 868 other people including about 140 children.

Some fraction of the other people killed may have been Taliban soldiers, but clearly a large fraction were bystanders and relatives.

Humans imitating other humans

mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 13:00

Great apes imitate fellow apes when there's an advantage in it, but humans imitate other humans even for no reason.

Human see, human do.

Psychological harm of religions

mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 13:00

How religions cause psychological harm to some (many?) believers.

Societies with little religion

mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 13:00

Societies with little religion can be quite good to live in.

This does not prove that Atheism, by itself, will make a society good to live in. (It did not make the Soviet Union very good.) But this does show that religion isn't necessary for a society to be good to live in.

Please don't buy the book from Amazon.

Dismissal of "Defense" secretary

mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 13:00

Obama appears to have dismissed "Defense" secretary Hagel because Hagel wasn't suited for Obama's war plans.