In Raqqa, PISSI is forcing civilian human shields to move the place where it plans its last stand, Russia and/or Assad are dropping cluster bombs, and the US shoots indiscriminately at every boat that heads out of Raqqa.

There has got to be a way to capture the people in boats when they don't fight back (as civilians won't).

Saboteur of Energy Perry altered a report so that it would support subsidies to power plants burning fossil fuels.

However, the honest report is still visible inside the coating of ashes.

Once in a while, the troll repeats a valid point that people aren't supposed to talk about — for instance, about the 12 US presidents that owned slaves at some time in their lives.

To demand that past heroes measure up to modern moral conclusions is anachronistic. We stand for these conclusions on the foundation of many years of further moral thinking, which those of the past did not have the benefit of. That Washington and Jefferson failed to anticipate the arguments and conclusions of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, which we know by hindsight, does not negate the good they did for fighting for an incomplete freedom.

But we should recognize that they did wrong by keeping people in slavery. We shouldn't demand perfection in our past heroes, either.

Dosing men with testosterone makes them more impulsive and less intelligent.

Arguing against a sale of rhino horn from farmed rhinos.

I don't know whether this argument is valid, overall.

I agree that the sale is really intended to be illegally exported. Does that mean it is wrong? Being illegal does not imply something is wrong. Exporting poached rhino horn is wrong because it is leading to extinction of rhinos, but whether exporting farmed rhino horn is wrong is a different question. Indeed, that is the crucial question here.

A sufficiently large supply of farmed rhino horn, together with a fairly effective anti-poaching program, ought in principle to drive poachers out of business. But that depends on making the anti-poaching program effective enough to drive up the cost of poached rhino horn, and a large enough supply of farmed rhino horn to drive down the price they can charge. Is that feasible to achieve? I don't know.

Counterpropaganda against the medical myths about rhino horn is clearly a good thing to do.