MOGO in daily life

What does it mean to do the most good and the least harm? How can this become a guiding principle, and how can one always know the answer? After all, we can’t predict the future; we can’t know every detail of every effect of our choices, and it can be awfully difficult to balance our [...]

Human v. Animal rights

The L.A. Times had an article (http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept) about the conflict between animal protection advocates and those supporting ritual slaughter of bulls in South Africa. It boils down to this (from the beginning of the article): “Thousands of animals are killed every month in South Africa in tribal cleansing ceremonies, and rituals marking births, deaths and [...]

Money and MOGO

While last week’s United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was widely circulated and discussed, The American Enterprise Institute’s offer to scientists of $10,000 to critique this global warming report was a blip in the news. In fact, when I heard about the report – casting little doubt that current global warming is a [...]