Tag: morality ethics
This party’s changing on the issue of Israel
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There are several obvious reasons this is happening. But the one rarely mentioned mainstream is everyone knows 10/7 was a MIHOP attack, which 1000000% undermines any moral authority Israel has to do mass murder in Gaza. Kelly is no dummy and surely knows this. ABN
Jewish Supremist response to criticism
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No one who actually watches Owens can honestly claim she is irrational, let alone so crazy she should be committed to a mental hospital.
She did at one point show the speaker had not been telling the truth and displays conspicuous self-aggrandizement.
Owens is the best reporter by far on the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Her work has been fascinating, factual and appropriately speculative.
Very importantly, it is crowd-sourced, which makes it super up-to-date and ever deepening, as new facts appear.
Owens is pioneering the journalism of the future. No one else is at her level.
If you have not been watching her, I highly recommend you start. This episode is topical and a good place to begin: Charlie’s Final Hours. What Else Is Josh Hammer Lying About? | Candace Ep 250.
As a side-note, Hammer appears to me to be a JS but I cannot be certain of that.
I can be certain, however, that his response is classic Bolshevik-era JS, where critics were cruelly incarcerated and silenced for ‘mental illness’, when all they were really doing is telling the truth, as is Candace. ABN
Women, we need to do better
Student at Peking University feigns fainting to see how his classmate will respond
In China, a student conducted a human behavior experiment, secretly setting up a small camera, then pretending to faint to see how his schoolmates would react, and the results were quite shocking.
中國一個學生，做人性實驗，偷偷架了一台小攝影機，然後他假裝昏倒，看看學校的同學會有怎樣的反應，結果相當的讓人吃驚。
Christmas concert at Trump-Kennedy Center is canceled after woke host pulls out in protest of rebrand
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Trump Kennedy Center was canceled after the show’s woke host pulled out in protest of President Donald Trump.
Famed drummer and vibraphone player Chuck Redd has been presiding over holiday Jazz Jams at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William Keter Betts.
But he canceled the annual concert, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, this year after being ‘saddened’ by the performance hall’s rebrand.
‘When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,’ Redd told AP in an email Wednesday.
As of last Friday, the performance center in DC‘s façade reads The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.
This is a good example of the power, the cognitive and emotional valence, of psycholinguistics. ABN
Chinese girl’s eyes allegedly removed for illegal organ harvesting
Chinese Transcript of mother’s spoken narration in the video:
“我的孩子在河南省人民医院做了一个喉部血管瘤手术，手术之后孩子就成了植物人，然后我发现孩子的眼球没了，被人摘走了。医院各个科室都在改病历……为了牟利，偷摘病人的器官卖钱。”
English Translation:
“My child underwent surgery for a throat hemangioma at Henan Provincial People’s Hospital. After the surgery, the child became vegetative, and then I discovered the child’s eyeballs were gone—they had been removed. Various departments in the hospital are altering the medical records… For profit, stealing and selling patients’ organs.”
- The video details an alleged incident in Henan Province where a 9-year-old girl underwent throat surgery at a local hospital, emerged in a vegetative state, and had her eyeballs removed without consent, with hospital records reportedly altered to cover up suspected organ trafficking for profit.
- The 24-second video features the girl’s mother recounting the events, hospital exterior shots, and the child in a bed with bandaged eyes, aligning with broader 2025 reports of a surge in Chinese organ harvesting claims, though this specific case lacks independent verification from major outlets.
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As with all things in China, it is impossible to prove these allegations.
This story has been appearing in social media and is believed true by many Chinese commentators.
Grok has this to say about the case: This mother’s narration describes an unverified organ trafficking claim. Officially documented facts of the case involve only medical negligence and record tampering, not organ removal.
It is widely believed in China and around the world that illegal organ harvesting is practiced in China for sale to the wealthy and elite.
In Cambodia, Scam Compounds or Scam Parks have repeatedly been accused of organ harvesting. These compounds appear to be a major reason for the Thai-Cambodia conflict raging today.
The most chilling claims against Cambodian Scam Parks involve ‘baby-farming’, where young women are kidnapped and forced to bear IVF pregnancies, so their babies’ organs can be removed and sold. It is widely believed the CCP is running these compounds. ABN
Continue reading “Chinese girl’s eyes allegedly removed for illegal organ harvesting”Deception (or truth elision) in communication
To communicate, we often must ignore the truth or falsity of a statement, our own or someone else’s.
I believe it is an instinct to do this; that it is part of our instinct to communicate at all. Communication requires cooperation, an agreement to be agreeable enough to get the message through.
We might call ignoring truth or falsity in communication “truth elision” or “psychological elision.” Elision means to omit something. Psychological elision would mean omitting or not mentioning psychological truths.
We do a lot of truth elision to save time. In professional or group settings it is hard to communicate any other way because there is not enough time to be perfectly truthful and most people will not care. They just want to socialize and/or get the job done, not search for truth.
Most communication is like that. Most messages are not even superficially analyzed. Semiotics glide through our minds without any thought to their deep origins or interpretations. Truth and falsity are frequently elided.
Like all instincts, our instinct to cooperate by ignoring the truth or falsity of many statements can be misused to consciously deceive.
Indeed, we frequently deceive even ourselves by accepting our own statements as true when analysis would show they are not. One way we succeed in doing this to ourselves is by simply avoiding the analysis—analysis elision.
This is where a simple instinct starts to go bad. A basic need to cooperate on the signs and symbols of communication gets twisted into tricking people, deceiving them, even deceiving ourselves.
The way to see this most clearly and to stop doing it with at least one other person is FIML practice. One of my main goals for this website is to show how and why communication goes bad and how and why it harms us. At the same time, I present a practical way to fix the problem described—FIML.
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I think the above sheds light on false confessions and pretty much all self-abnegating lying on the spectrum trending down from a false confession with legal consequences.
Abusers work these ill-defined and difficult to grasp areas to dominate, entrap, and manipulate others. Narcissists and other “strong” or “clever” dark personality types use our fundamental willingness to cooperate against us.
Gas lighting greatly relies on people’s willingness to ignore truths and accept falsities about themselves. If there is more than one gas lighter at work, victims may even accept blame for things they know with certainty are not true.
As with so much in this world, immoral people put time and energy into fooling those who have not put time or energy into the dark arts.
Mass mind-control preys on our mass susceptibility to believe the story that first comes out; the story that is approved by the ‘authorities’ and mass media; the story that is embraced and recited by our friends and family. Mind-control relies on our need to conform and our fear of being ostracized and criticized for straying from the mass instinct to be the same as others.
Buddhists all know about wise compassion. We also need wise understanding of the world and wise cautiousness about the full scope of human motivations.
Our tendencies to go along with falsity can be seen in every part of life, from small corners of our own lives to the great expanses of entire societies.
Alex Jones at his horrific worst
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I’ve never been a fan of Jones but have been OK with his doing what he does, until this — implying Candace Owens might be having a ‘mental-breakdown, psychosis’.
That is disgraceful, super-dishonest and dangerous to Owens, who is arguably the best journalist in the world today.
I don’t know how much Jones was paid to say this or if he is just a total POS. Either way, he went from sort of OK in my mind to total garbage, a backstabber.
Jones’ talk is classic mind-control preprogramming before someone is suicided, lobotomized, drugged into psychosis or murdered in public like Charlie Kirk.
It is chilling, horrible. No way, Jones doesn’t know what he’s doing
Candace Owens is pioneering crowd-sourced journalism in real-time.
The information she discovers herself and receives from others is provocative, relevant, significant and fascinating.
Her handling of it is superb. ABN
Bullying in China
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This video is appearing today on social media as if it were new, but is actually from an incident in Henan in 2019. Read comments at the link above for a variety of reactions. Bullying is not uncommon in China, though as with everything in China, there are no reliable statistics. In Japan it is widely known that bullying is a serious problem. ABN
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Chinese translation:
- 「打她！」（多次重複）
- 「踹她！」
- 「別錄了！」
- 受害者哭喊：「不要！」 「啊！」（尖叫與求饒）
English Translation:
Victim’s cries: “No!” “Don’t!” “Ah!” (screams and pleas for mercy)
“Hit her!” (repeated several times)
“Kick her!”
“Stop recording!”
Bullying in China
Bullying in Chinese schools is a significant and complex issue, with research indicating a high prevalence. A 2016 nationwide survey of over 100,000 students across 29 counties found that 33.36% of students experienced bullying, with 4.7% reporting frequent incidents and 28.66% occasional ones. However, reported statistics vary widely; one study cited in a YouTube video claims 75% of children in China have experienced bullying, while another suggests only 11% report being bullied, highlighting inconsistencies in measurement and definition. This discrepancy underscores the difficulty in accurately assessing the scope of the problem.
The nature of bullying in China is often described as more indirect and subtle compared to physical bullying common in Western countries. Tactics frequently involve social exclusion, verbal abuse, and psychological torment, such as mocking a student’s appearance or using symbolic items (e.g., watermelon-themed objects) to humiliate them in a way that may not be immediately obvious to adults. Group dynamics play a central role, with bullying typically involving multiple students ganging up on a single victim, reflecting China’s collectivist culture where group identity can reduce individual accountability.
The causes of bullying are multifaceted. Research identifies factors such as family environment, including authoritarian parenting and corporal punishment, which may model aggressive behavior. The influence of Confucian values and social Darwinism—where success is tied to competition and survival of the fittest—can justify bullying against those perceived as weak, such as students with poor academic performance or social awkwardness. Additionally, the normalization of teacher-led humiliation and physical punishment in schools may contribute to students imitating such behavior.
Bullying in Japan
Bullying in Japan, known as “ijime,” remains a persistent and serious issue across all school levels, with recent data indicating a record high in incidents. In fiscal year 2024, the Japanese education ministry confirmed 769,022 cases of bullying, marking the fourth consecutive year of record-high numbers and an increase of approximately 36,400 from the previous year. The majority of cases occurred at elementary schools (610,612), followed by junior high schools (135,865), with smaller numbers at senior high schools (18,891) and special needs schools (3,654).
The problem is particularly severe in terms of its consequences, with serious cases such as suicide and truancy rising to a record 1,405, an increase of 99 from the previous year. This reflects a broader trend of escalating severity, with incidents often involving group dynamics where a student perceived as “different” is ostracized by peers, sometimes leading to the entire class participating in the bullying. This form of group bullying, or “shūdan ijime,” is deeply rooted in Japanese societal values that emphasize conformity and group harmony, where deviation from the norm is met with social punishment.
Identity and signaling
Identity is constructed of memories, memories that have to be tended to, and this takes time and energy.
You have to remember who you are and often have to work pretty hard just to maintain that image within yourself, to say nothing of projecting it toward other people and getting them to accept it.
A big problem with this way of constructing a “self,” an identity, is it’s probably based on misinterpretations and a good deal of self-deceit.
Our identities, such that they are, are complex fictions. They are a central flaw in our internal signaling system.
If your identity is large and complex, it will use a good deal of energy. As you signal internally to yourself about your identity, you will also be receiving signals from other people, and these signals will necessarily be processed by your large and complex identity. And that, of course, will lead to serious misinterpretations, both internal and external.
If you belong to a group that defines, or helps you define, your identity, you can save some energy but will have as much fiction, maybe even worse fiction.
Consider the codes of group behavior (group signaling) for Stalin’s NKVD officers who purged so many millions of innocents in the 1930s. All of those officers had identities that were largely determined by signals coming from the NKVD and Joseph Stalin.
There was a weird sort of ethical behavior among those officers in that they were trying to adhere to a group signaling system and not go their own way. This same problem in less serious form can be observed all over the world in every culture.
One problem with ethics and ethical signaling within groups is ethical questions can be difficult. There are few formulas that will always work, and formulas are what hold groups together.
Back to your identity. I hope it is clear that you have to be careful when you base your identity on group signaling systems. If you are a banker, you might do many bad things out of loyalty to your group. Same for all of us.
While ethics are hard to codify, the will to behave ethically is simpler. I want to do the right thing but I don’t always know what it is or how to do it. That is a good statement to make. If you can honestly say that to yourself, that is good because that means that your internal signaling system is seeking greater integrity, great clarity.
When we seek clarity and integrity within our signaling systems, we are seeking better ethics. We are changing our identities, or allowing our identities to be transformed by a higher desire for clarity, purity, integrity, goodness.
When we seek to improve our signaling systems, our ethics, we begin to abandon static identities and poorly constructed fictions about ourselves by subjecting them to a higher order of thought. If we can take a meta-position on ourselves, we will find the process of improving signaling is easier and more enjoyable than clinging to a static fictionalized identity that may have been constructed years before, or by other people..
For people who fail to understand that traumatizing and maiming children is a military strategy
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This video is from 2021 and well illustrates my point. The children, ages 8-12, are being detained for picking flowers and wild vegetables near their homes. That alone will affect them emotionally, but how many of them are going to be lobotomized? Not saying that has happened to these kids, but psychosurgery is a very simple way to subdue an entire population if enough of the children and young people are maimed. Put on your strongest realist hat and realize how effective this strategy is, especially when done over several generations. I bet there are few authoritarian states with hated minorities who are not doing this. ABN
Why not just cut the sh*t instead
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