Mastodawn

Some #islanders in #Orkney attend weekly #vigil on #Kirk Green in #Kirkwall every Saturday between 1 and 2pm

hey have been doing so since the end of October 2023. #Photographs & #films are made which are seen by #Palestinians in #refugee camps, and those who have been displaced. It gives them hope when they find that even as far away from them as Orkney is, that there are people who know of their #suffering, and who care.

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/04/people-as-things-thats-where-it-starts/

#humanity #humanism #morals #compassion

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“People as things, that’s where it starts.”

This week the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, voted to impose the death sentence (which would be by hanging) on Palestinian prisoners. Israel runs an Apartheid system. When most people think of…

The Orkney News

Paul Houle 4d ago

🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-brain-region-moral-inconsistency.html

#brain #morals #ethics #neuroscience #biology #research

The brain region associated with moral inconsistency

Why don't some people practice what they preach? Researchers reveal that a brain region called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is involved. The researchers used fMRI imaging to identify brain activity patterns associated with moral behavior and judgment. People who behaved dishonestly despite judging the same behavior as immoral in others had less activity in the vmPFC, and when the researchers stimulated participants' vmPFCs, they became more morally inconsistent. The work is published in the journal Cell Reports.

Medical Xpress

Philosophics 4d ago

I've finally published my essay resolving the Frege–Geach problem.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/04/when-syntax-is-asked-to-bear-too-much-v1-2/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Or have I? You tell me. I had worked to dissolve the problem in February, but I wasn't satisfied. I revised the manuscript in March, but I wasn't satisfied because I felt I could go further – and so I did.

#philosophy #language #expressivism #essay #blog #semantic #identity #morals #ethics #emotivism #categoryerror #syntax

Wisdom in Space 6d ago

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Ethics #Morals

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

Aubrey Taylor, Editor Mar 30

brother lawrence…and a key to gaining inner peace

n the beginning of my quest for gaining peace, this Catholic individual gave the first insight into the solution for that journey. But there is more to the story...(Republished from September, 2023.)

https://thedignityofman.net/2026/03/30/brother-lawrence/