I think people get very passionate about Great Humans and find it hard to separate their emotional connection with what they have seen with the silent evidence of what they have not seen. At its heart, the great man fallacy is this– we do not know who would have risen to the occasion. Her biography […]
This is a work-in-progress. What is an election? An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Public office can mean many different things. In Singapore we elect Members of Parliament, that’s it. And we elect our President. That’s it. (In the US, for example, they […]
– 1 – [–]NO_LAH_WHERE_GOT 6 points 3 hours ago Anti-censorship folks are usually intellectual, educated types who can think critically, sniff out BS, analyze intent and so on. If you spend any time on the Facebook comments sections of any of our news organizations, though, it becomes clear that lots of people are troublingly impressionable. […]
A friend asked me for my thoughts on this – was it insensitive, or is it stirred out of proportion? insensitive is an interesting word haha i think i’d describe it as tone deaf, or a faux pas an apology is fine “stirred out of proportion” is also an interesting question what is the appropriate […]