When we think of evil, the first image that comes to mind is usually not the concept of evil, but an evil thing. This gives insight into what evil is in its essence: something that robs innate goodness from something else. The word for this is called “privation,” the classical philosophical understanding of evil. Evil
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First, a note on my invented word: craxy. Like crayons in a box, some words in English exhibit a variety of shades and colors. Crazy is one of these, attracting synonyms like butterflies to milkweed. Call someone crazy, and we run the gamut from foolish to eccentric to fanatical, and end with psychotic. Consequently, context
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I’ve never used ChatGPT. Nor have I used Claude, Grok, or Gemini. At least, I don’t think I have. Large language models, artificial intelligence, and technologies that use them are spreading so fast that it’s impossible for me to say with certainty that I’ve stayed away from them. But I’m doing my darnedest. The downsides
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Dr. Renata Moon, former clinical associate professor of medicine and critic of the COVID-19 vaccines, was recently dismissed from Washington State University (WSU) for her views on the vaccine. This loss of employment was shocking, particularly given Dr. Moon’s role as a founding volunteer of the university’s medical school. “I was on the school’s first
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