Rationalistic / Atheistic Video

Entertaining. 10min. long. Hat tip to The Macho Response.

The End of Empathy

Since when do we have to care about everything and everyone. Is it possible and even desireable. How functional would you be if you had infinite sensitivity to every perceived ill in the world? The link is to an article to a seemingly left-leaning author who is worried about his own ambivalence towards violence halfway across the world. Maybe ambivalence isn't the right word. Rather, he's concerned that he can still function day to day in America, with terrible ills happening to others.

I think humans are wired to naturally care most strongly about immediate family for evolutionary reasons. To me, it seems counter-productive to rock back and forth in the fetal position if Kim Jong-Il continues to violently oppress his own people. I think it's terrible, I'm not sure if we need to act militarily because of it, but ultimately I'll still go out and water my flowers all the same.

George Carlin on Environmentalism

There's a good stuff here. I'm surprised I haven't seen this one before.