Moral Event Horizons

I’ve been listening to Overly Sarcastic Productions Lightning Round with Red and Ludohistory (here it is!). And they are talking about the trope known as: moral event horizon. TVTropes defines this in its laconic entry as: “A horrendously evil act that marks its perpetrator as irredeemable.” Obviously this trope is subjective. But I can’t helpContinueContinue reading “Moral Event Horizons”

Bigotry and the In-Group

The human mind has developed over two million years of hominid evolution. It developed to divide people into two groups: the in-group and the out-group. When animals go about the process of surviving in the world, they must deal with competition. And interspecies competition, competition between different species can be intense. Lions and hyenas bothContinueContinue reading “Bigotry and the In-Group”