At its core, morality is about empathy: it is about “putting ourselves in others’ shoes, treating their interests as we do our own”2 and deriving meaning from helping others. Moral obligations arise when a course of action is morally required, and thus a moral agent is blameworthy if they
Philosophers have long debated the epistemic status of moral intuition. I reorient the debate to the pragmatic implications of trusting this intuition. I begin by defending three propositions. (1) Normative statements, comprising moral intuitions/beliefs and normative statements about reasons, are truth-apt claims. (2) An individual trusting their moral intuition
Why must we define terrorism primarily in terms of attacks on civilians? This is a fundamental question. Here, the term “civilian” is presupposed as a passive, inert, and de-agentified entity—an “othered” mass stripped of resistance, rather than a spontaneous, subterranean current, a dynamic, centralized, revolutionary subject in the classical
The overrepresentation of Indigenous women who are missing or murdered calls for the need of tangible change. Looking at the various attempts by the Canadian government to combat this allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the inequality faced by Indigenous women from all walks of life. On May 16,
In this paper, I will argue that the current standard demarcation criteria provided by Popper and Lakatos demarcate alchemy as a pseudoscience. First, I will give a rigorous definition of pseudoscience. Then, I will provide an example of the significance of the problem of the demarcation of science and pseudoscience
Where national security marks diasporic bodies for suspicion, the university marks them for erasure. After 9/11, Anglo-American higher education abandoned its pretensions of neutrality and transformed itself into an anticipatory carceral regime, where Afghan and Iranian women scholars became living counter-archives of exclusion. Their presence unsettles the juridical architectures
🤫The author chose to remain anonymous due to the politically controversial nature of their essay In the United States, as inflation-adjusted working-class wages stagnate and upward mobility appears inaccessible, the public’s scapegoat has been voiceless undocumented immigrants. In the recent federal election, curbing undocumented immigration to promote economic prosperity
There is an ongoing debate on the extent to which religion impedes or expedites social movements. Here, the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) is used as an illustrative example of how religion can be key to a movement’s success. The reason why the CRM is used is that it was
The age range that the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act falls under is from 12 to 17., which, at first glance, seems fair enough. When people turn adults, they’ve fully matured, right? However, this is often not the case. But if so, why is the act the way it
Rehabilitative measures have long been abandoned in favor of lengthy, frequently lifelong prison sentences in American criminal justice systems. The modern criminal justice system's punitive and aggressive tools and methods have crept into schools during the past ten years in an effort to pull kids out of the
The vast majority of democratic countries share a similar standard in the prosecution of potential criminals – the presumption of innocence, that no one shall be punished without proof beyond a reasonable doubt. For good reason – the incarceration of the innocent can ruin lives, stripping away the fundamental rights that one
The International Criminal Court is a court designed to prosecute crimes against the world — genocides, war crimes, etc. However, anyone even remotely familiar with the ICC will know that it is commonly criticized as a “toothless” or “symbolic” institution without any real ability to bring horrible people to justice. What
On August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of men, women, and children were instantly vaporized. Others were charred into ghoulish forms. Radiation slaughtered many more through the slow rotting and peeling of their flesh, and the introduction of leukemia into their
In 2024, two billion people voted in 50 federal elections globally, and one theme emerged between countless parties running for office: nostalgia. For instance, in France, a left-wing electoral alliance, the New Popular Front, positions itself as the counterbalance to rising far-right politics in Europe, as the original Popular Front
When people think of resilience they often picture someone who has bounced back from a breakup, lost a job or failed a test. Resilience is a word that is plastered across motivational posters and said proudly on stages. It is portrayed as something which can be easily earned. But for
Many behaviors across the board are engendered by a desire or a need for profit. Some, beneficial. Others, harmful. Many parallels can be observed between government enterprises and private companies; the hope for profit still exists in both, just in different forms with different goals. Quoting Milton Friedman: “there is
At dark nights in regions far away from chaotic urban areas, stars cluster and glitter over the vast cosmic arena, emanating rays of comfort and pleasure; yet with our eyes fixed on the night sky, the Milky Way flowing and shining above our heads, we couldn’t help being reminded
Arguably, Vogue has been the blueprint for fashion magazines since its rise to prominence in the 20th century. Since then, designers, fashion fanatics, and everyday people alike have held Vogue in high regard. Despite tremendous changes throughout its years of publication, the magazine's reputation remains intact. Or so
In The Trial, Franz Kafka tells the story of a man who wakes up to find himself under arrest, though no one will tell him why. Josef K., a mid-level bank employee, has committed no crime, yet he is summoned to court, expected to defend himself, and slowly pulled into
How does it feel to watch the world speed past the life you once knew—while you're still here, your heartbeat a quiet witness to time's relentless rush? My grandfather, whose weathered hands once held the authority to shape destinies as a respected commissioner, now trembles
