Philosophy for teens

An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian understanding of free will

It is credible because it is from the Stanford Encyclopedia 

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Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is incapable of defending himself at his own trial. The reason for this is because he has become insane due to the conditions that he has been living in for six years. He has been living in solitary confinement in a tiny cell for over 22 hours a day. He eats all his meals in the cell and even uses it as a washroom. He has become suicidal, he talks to himself, he hears voices, and he has flashbacks. His laywers have asked for the trial to be postponed and that his living conditions change. The way he is living is psychological torture.

This website shows how much taxes companies have to pay in different countries. It shows the percentage of tax in each country and how it can vary from country to country.

"For a country to function properly, i.e., offer services (roads, schools, hospitals, etc.) to its inhabitants, it needs a certain amount of tax income. Whether it gets these taxes directly as corporate taxes or more indirectly as labor taxes doesn't really matter." Why or how are you going to use this to suuport your side?

This website shows a study on the taxes that people need to pay. This study took into consideration the income levels of people and how taxes can be a big problem for many people.

Credibility is in question on this one. The site maintains that Vermont is fairer in its taxation. How will this support your side?

Great video with a strong argument on why animals have no rights.

This text ultimately boils down to the fact that animals have no capacity of free moral judgement. Therefore, they exercise no rights.

This video speaks about the human evolution, and what makes somebody human. It helped me write my blog because it gave me some other ideas that I had never thought of.

Dan Dennett is a philosopher and in this video, he speaks about how hard it is to change people's consciousness. Basically, it's hard to change the opinion of somebody. I watched this video because it helped me write my blog on: what it means to be human. This video also helped me with my sociology project on teen ignorance. Dan Dennett speaks about apathy near the middle of the video, which has to do with my project.

I have a problem with the philosopher but I listen to him anyway because he's so intelligent.

This is about Canadian soldiers torturing people of Afghanistan. Most of the people were picked randomly; they were just local people. they were all most likely innocent. Steven Harper denies that he knew anything about it.

This article found in the New York Times discusses how the Department of Justice is finally bringing charges to the C.I.A for more that two dozen abuse cases of suspected terrorists.

This website is a description written by Jim Manzi one the utilitarians point of view as to why torture is wrong. This man is currently the chairman and managing director of Applied Predictive Technologies (a business analytics software company which is a contributing editor at the National Review), a senior worker at the Manhattan Institute, and a continuous blogger. In his writing based on a utilitarian case against torture, he describes how in no matter what was a person looks at torture, you will always be dehumanizing a human being.

This site is more of a blog post explaining various reasons as to why torture continues to look like a process that really does nothing for our societies. The blogger, "Thurstjm," even brings torture back to the topic of terrorism which is a constant discussion world wide.

This website is basically book notes from the book titled, "Morality Matters," by Roger Trigg. It gives us a detailed definition of torture and continuous to explain how the process or torturing in clearly ineffective.

This website shows how torture is used in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. There are many examples of torture and what is going on there. The government knows about what is happening in this prison.