Americans Think The U.S. Has Lost Global Influence And Moral Authority
The number of Americans who believe the United States is the moral leader of the world has plummeted over the last decade, a new Ipsos poll shows, with Democrats and independents the most skeptical of the country’s position.
The primary argument for #LandValueTax as the #SingleTax is not that it is demonstrably the most effective and efficient means of #taxation, it's the moral argument that #LVT is the only tax which comports with the requirements of #morality based on the #NaturalRights theory of #Equality, #Liberty, and #Justice for All.
Acceptance of this is unnecessary, because even if you don't believe in #libertarian #philosophy, you still believe in the authority of government to tax anything it wishes.
Thanks to Ev Fedorenko, I published the first of (at least) 2 new essays.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/10/language-as-interface/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
In this one, I postulate that 20th-century accounts of language origins need to be revisited if her fMRI findings are correct that cognition is pre-verbal. This also means that moral language is post hoc rationalisation.
#philosophy #language #morality #emotions #maps #territory #neuroscience #cognition #rationalisation #science #blog #podcast
"Cowardice for Sovereignty!"
If you won't call out foreign depravity, you won't stop it here.....
#InternationalLaw #Morality #ClanOfPeadophiles #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Brexit
Watching this documentary now, extremely dark stuff but also extremely human. Starts off with an anthropologist who provides nuance to the entire 'hunt for pedophiles' thing. These eejits who have a youtube channel but have NO idea what they're gonna do when they 'catch' a pedophile who turns suicidal because they feel their life's just been ruined. Is this entertainment? Is this public service?
Making and watching shows like 'To Catch a Predator' says a lot about morality and humanity, I think.
From a review:
'At the time, Jimmy Kimmel, still just starting out as a chat show host, gleefully described To Catch a Predator as “the funniest thing on television”, likening it to prank programme Punk’d “but for paedophiles”. But no matter how how repellent the “victims” are, nothing about the show or situation seems funny now, especially when we learn about a suspect who killed himself when the cops arrived.
How does the punitive, ritualised humiliation of To Catch a Predator, or any of the many gonzo made-for-YouTube knockoffs, like the one we see being filmed here, help stop child abuse or change anyone’s life for the better? No one wants to think about how to break these cycles of abuse; instead we’re all trapped a veritable hall of mirrored cruelties in which predators are targeted by morally indignant predators armed with cameras who are in turn filmed by quasi-predatory documentarians. It’s a mise en abyme of despair.'
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "JD #Vance's comments💔justifying the death of #ReneeGood are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith.🚨His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Since there doesn't appear to be anyone with a moral compass inside Trump's⭕, it's important to amplify influential orgs that've "some" history of⚡defending #HumanRights, other #rights & #morality.
#Murder #DHS #PopeLeo #USPol
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield/115859298428497849
He has admitted that he doesn't care about international law, and is restrained only by his (non-existent) morality.
We should expect an invasion any day now.
Trump says the only limit to his global power is his ‘own morality’
So that is the world stuffed (well the bits that can be looted for profit anyway.
'Donald #Trump has said ‘I don’t need #internationallaw and that his power is limited only by his “own #morality .'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/trump-power-international-law
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