In the UK, a creditor can easily make it impossible for a debtor to rent a place to live. That is not an officially mandated consequence, but that is what results in practice.

Perhaps it is still possible to pay to use a room in someone else's apartment.

A captain in the Belarus army showed the press a secret order that told the army to attack protesters. He has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Some real biologists say there is not yet sufficient evidence to rule out the possibility that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

Morally, I don't think it makes much difference. Everyone makes mistakes.

People are raging about the treatment of the corpses of the people who were killed when the Philadelphia thug department dropped a bomb on the MOVE house.

I think this is a side issue, and a distraction from the real moral issue, which is how they died, and why.

They died by murder. The Philadelphia thug department killed 11 people, gratuitously — it could easily have let them live. This is the issue that matters. Living people are important in their own right; living people (which they were) have rights. Corpses don't.

I don't believe that corpses deserve any special sort of "respect." That goes for all corpses, includes my corpse when it some day exists. I've signed papers for it to be used for scientific or medical purpose, because that's a constructive use. You can do that too!

Let's not shift our moral focus from respect for people's rights to respect for taboos.

*Will Movement for People's Vaccine Open Doors to Larger Revolt Against Big Pharma?*

We can't possibly know the answer to that question, but it would be good if that happens.