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Reading Time: 8 minutes Of course, we always care about the consequences. But the important thing is that’s only one constraint among many. Moral decision-making is a constraint satisfaction process whereby your brain takes many factors and integrates them into a decision. According to utilitarians, it’s not just that we should care about consequences; it’s that we should care about maximizing aggregate utility [as the central moral rule].
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Reading Time: < 1 minute 50% of women med students and 28% of women nurses have experienced sexual harassment — so these doctors are bringing #TimesUp to the health care industry
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Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice, tend to embrace and accept it, even though they might not understand the feelings. By age 5, white children are strongly biased towards whiteness. To counter this bias, experts recommend acknowledging and naming race and racism with children as early and as often as possible. Children’s books are one of the most effective and practical tools for initiating these critical conversations; and they can also be used to model what it means to resist and dismantle oppression.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Each of these storylines is a distraction from the wider issue of ongoing, extremist-hosted fights meant to distort the conversation about the rising body count in the name of the American far right and shift the focus onto the anti-fascists who meet them in the street. Since Trump’s election and the rise of extremist groups like the Proud Boys, the number of people killed by anti-fascists at these rallies remains zero.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The battle for third place among Democratic presidential candidates is heating up after a stellar showing during the debates. California Sen. Kamala Harris is now tied for third with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) behind former Vice President Joe Biden and America’s favorite H&R Block tax consultant, Bernie Sanders.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A woman in fear of her husband turned in his guns to police — and she was arrested for burglary.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes “Today, Marshae Jones is being charged with manslaughter for being pregnant and getting shot while engaging in an altercation with a person who had a gun,” Reyes said in a statement. “Tomorrow, it will be another black woman, maybe for having a drink while pregnant. And after that, another, for not obtaining adequate prenatal care.”
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Reading Time: < 1 minute BREAKING: Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in an open session on July 17. Over 1,000 ex-federal prosecutors say the Mueller Report contains clear evidence that Donald Trump committed felony obstruction of justice.
More details: https://cnn.it/2JcJskS
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Celebrities including John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Annette Bening and Aidan Quinn took part in a play called “The Investigation” which read excerpts from the Mueller Report.
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