Uncomfortable Ideas Blog: Challenging Ideology for the Sake of Reality Podcast
1) Arguing with Social Justice Activists and Conspiricy Theorists: You Can't Win
A few years ago, for some odd reason, I decided to engage a flat-earther in an online debate regarding the fact that the earth is not flat. Hopefully, you will agree that the facts were on my side. Bu...Show More
Arguing with Social Justice Activists and Conspiricy Theorists: You Can't Win
0:00 | Jun 28th, 2017
2) Do I Really Want President Trump To Succeed?
In the first version of the book, I wrote an article about giving the winner of the presidential election a chance, and supporting him or her no matter who it may be (this was before the election). Al...Show More
3) Age of Consent and Sex
In the book, I write about how older men being attracted to sexually-mature younger women is not "sick," "perverted," or "immoral," rather it is a typical human, automatic, affective (feeling-based) r...Show More
4) The Concept of Equity is Not That Simple
A popular image that has been circulating the Internet shows the difference between the concepts of "equality" and "equity". Equal means the same, where equity means fairness. In the image, we can see...Show More
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A baker in Colorado refuses to bake a cake for a gay couple because, "Gays are an abomination." The owner of a coffee shop in Alabama has a sign on the door that reads, "No Muslims Allowed." A persona...Show More
6) Is the Existence of God an Uncomfortable Idea to the Atheist?
It depends on how one views God. The God believed by the Westboro Baptist Church or the fire and brimstone God believed by millions is very different from the gentle Jesus God believed by the more "li...Show More
7) When People Die, Their Strengths Live On But Their Weaknesses Die With Them
I was listening to an interview where a gentleman was talking about how he lost his father when he was two years old. He continued to talk about what an amazing man his father was, and he knew this be...Show More
8) Mental Illness Should Not Be Treated the Same as Physical Illness
One of the many ways that the PC culture has disregarded science and reality has to do with the claim that we should treat mental illness the same way we treat physical illness, implying that people h...Show More
9) We're Getting Sicker
Go back a few hundred years before modern medicine, life-saving medical procedures, and medical technology. If a person had a genetic anomaly that resulted in a sickness or disease, they would often d...Show More