Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS STILL A NECESSARY EVIL
Many white South Africans believe that a large percentage of the black population is too uneducated to fully understand the importance of education ( which, according to them, leads to Blacks placing underqualified blacks employees in charge of large corporations, causing them to become less efficient ,make less profit, pay less tax and employ fewer…
-
WHY YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ISLAM
Islam seeks to replace democracy and the Western legal-system with Sharia, which reduces non-Muslims/infidels to second-class citizens (allowing them to be enslaved, exploited and dominated … forcing infidels to pay a protection-fee known as Jizya and reserving all important positions for Muslims and ARAB MUSLIMS in particular). This poses a huge problem, for people who…
-
AM I A CHRISTIAN?
I – an agnostic – do not reject the idea of a God of love (one who wants us to treat our fellow man with compassion and kindness and grants eternal life to anyone (atheists and agnostics included) who strives to help his fellow man and make the world a better place). However, I find…
-
IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT -THE OSCAR PISTORIUS/ REEVA STEENKAMP STORY by Terence Grant
Above: The entrance to Oscar Pistorius’ security-estate, Silver Woods Country Estate, which is part of the Silver Lakes Golf Estate. Silver Lakes was voted the most secure estate in South Africa in 2009. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/feb/14/pistorius-home-estate-most-secure-south-africa http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Oscar_Pistorius/3-crimes-reported-in-Silver-Woods-in-3-years-20140325 BY TERENCE GRANT Oscar Pistorius lived in a prestigious security-estate that was surrounded by an electric-fence (mounted on a 3 metre high…
-
IF WE WERE ALL VEGAN, ANIMALS WOULD SUFFER A WORSE FATE by Terence Grant
If there were no meat-eaters, animals would routinely die of thirst and hunger, surrounded by the rotting corpses of animals that had died months earlier. This would hardly constitute an improvement. Consequently, vegans are often forced to fall back on the argument that domestic animals suffer intolerably and should be allowed to become extinct -an…
-
TRANS-WOMEN COMPETING IN WOMENS SPORT A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. by Terence Grant
https://affirmativeactionarecipefordisaster.blog/2023/12/14/affirmative-action/ Transgender women could walk away with all the medals at sporting events like the Olympic Games if allowed to compete against biological females .This has the potential to deprive female sports icons like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price and Sha’Cari Richardson of the ability to make a living off sport. In addition, it could lead to a…
Got any book recommendations?
global politics 