That's not self-pitying but rather diagnostic. It becomes foundation of “Mr. Nobody Against #Putin,” Academy Award-nominated #documentary offering the clearest portraits of how #Russian #authoritarianism sustains itself through routine #moral abdication and prioritizing one’s own #survival
After the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the school where #Talankin works is methodically repurposed:
What was once an #educational institution becomes ...
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@msfreund makes a #Moral & #StrategicCase for #RecognizingSomaliland—drawing on #Jewish history, #DemocraticPrinciples, & the urgent #Security realities of the #HornOfAfrica. '#Somaliland has done the hard work of #Governance. Will the world #recognize this?'
https://saxafimedia.com/a-jewish-case-for-recognizing-somaliland/
#MissKittyPolitics
Extremely insightful about the #moral #compass issue. It indicates that loud is a good thing. Stay loud. 🔦🔦🔦
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tsksqpjisdvtusxq6ide5tzj/post/3memxddschc2c
Knöllenbeck meets AI
Wie so oft in letzter Zeit sass Kriminalkommissar Knöllenbeck, der tüchtigste und einzige Kriminalkommissar Markscheids, an seinem Tisch und starrte vor sich hin. Die hohen Aktenstösse rund um seinen Arbeitsplatz suggerierten eine enorme kriminalistische Aufgabenflut und intensives Eingespanntsein in tägliche kriminalistische Herausforderungen. So war es
https://markscheid.com/knoellenbeck-meets-ki
#Bewusstsein #KI #MamM #markscheid #Moral #ProfessorRabe #Schmerz
#Media organizations hold #power.
With power comes #duty. That duty is simple: show #reality as accurately as possible. Not only what is comfortable. Not only what feels safe. Also what is uncertain, complex, or uncomfortable.
If a highly powerful political leader repeatedly confuses countries, shows sudden speech disruptions, or displays noticeable physical changes, this is not #gossip. It can be an indicator of #cognitive decline. In medicine, patterns matter more than isolated events. One mistake can be random. Many similar mistakes over time are a signal. #Science works exactly this way: it looks for repeated deviations from normal baselines.
This is where the #moral #responsibility of the media begins. Media do not need to #diagnose. But they should not completely ignore signals that are being seriously discussed by qualified experts. Because omission also shapes public reality. In #psychology, this is known as #normalization through #exposure. If something is ignored often enough, it starts to appear normal.
Pop culture illustrates this clearly. Imagine a sci-fi series where a spaceship crew keeps ignoring warning lights. Every episode they say, “Probably just a sensor glitch.” Eventually the warp core explodes. Not because nobody could see the problem. But because nobody wanted to say it out loud.
Or think about multiplayer games. When one player is clearly lagging, the team adapts strategy. They do not pretend everyone is perfectly synchronized. Recognizing reality is the basis for good decision-making. Politics works the same way. Voters and institutions need an accurate situation assessment.
The concept often described as “sanewashing” reflects a broader social tendency. Humans and institutions prefer stability. The #brain likes predictability. That is why deviations are often downplayed. But science shows that early #warning signs are crucial. In #medicine. In #climate #research. In #engineering safety. And in political #analysis.
A common counterargument is: without a confirmed diagnosis, nothing should be discussed. This sounds careful. But it is only partially scientific. Science often operates with probabilities, not absolute certainty. Evidence-based expert hypotheses are not taboo. They are part of #knowledge formation. The key is #transparency: What is proven? What is #hypothesis? Who says it? Based on which methods?
If media avoid all relevant expert hypotheses out of #fear of being wrong, an #information vacuum forms. That vacuum will be filled by uncontrolled sources. Social media rumors. Extreme narratives. This weakens #trust in professional #journalism.
Honor in journalism does not mean #perfection. Honor means #responsibility. Moral #integrity does not mean zero risk. It means pursuing #truth despite risk. The principle “tell it as it is” remains correct. But “what is” constantly changes. Reality is not a frozen picture. It is closer to a live stream. Showing only old frames is no longer truth.
In pop culture terms: Reality is not a finished movie. It is an open-world game. New events constantly appear. If media only show the starting map, they mislead the players.
Therefore, media institutions should evolve their #tools and standards. They need clear, ethical frameworks for discussing medical or cognitive warning signals in extremely powerful public figures. Not sensationalist. Not #disrespectful. But also not #blind.
Because ultimately, this is not about individual politicians. It is about systems. About #democracy. About informed citizens. Truth is rarely comfortable. But ignoring it does not make it less real.
Moral journalism means this: Do not only report what appears stable. Also report when #stability itself may be in #question. That is where real responsibility begins.
#press #economy #mainstream #health #politics #world #globalization #future #humanity #wisdom #ethics #compass #system #matrix #trump #biden #usa #whitehouse #government #humanrights #law #justice #epstein #epsteinfiles #epsteingate #conspiracy #sanewashing
Günther Patzig: Ethik ohne Metaphysik (1971/83)
...irgendwer muss doch den Stutz des globalen (Kinder-) Puff der Mächtigen händeln...
https://www.srf.ch/news/international/ubs-konten-von-maxwell-epstein-und-der-bankenplatz-schweiz
#CH #Gesellschaft #Moral #Banken #TransnationaleVerbrechersyndikate
'“We know that cows are #conscious and chickens are conscious. There’s a good scientific consensus about it. Have we given them moral consideration? No, but already there’s an active conversation, especially here in Silicon Valley, that we should be extending #moral consideration to machines. I think that that would be a tremendous mistake.” How so? “Because they’re not going to be conscious, but they’re going to convince us they are.”'
De jure vielleicht, moralisch nicht...
Drawing on decades of political experience and personal struggle, Varoufakis argues that the #left has #lost its #connection with the very #people it set out to represent. He explores how decades of #neoliberalism, technocratic politics, and #moral #detachment have driven #working-class #communities toward the #farright...
@log @ambiguous_yelp this is a reductio ad absurdum of your position. You literally just admitted that you believe toddlers have no inherent moral value. What if the moral agents whose guardianship they’re under are abusive? How does your faux-morality handle that?
@markhburton
Many think #banks are #neutral (for it's #speculation? investment into #war? #paying for what #profits most devastating in a short time?) and it isn't #moral actually passing through those hands full of #bad actors (#immoral #investments) and growing what #fucks people best and #sucks most out of them.
#Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math #People #Extraction
Those inversions can be demonstrated to be incoherent. If good and evil are immature, that implies that there is no reason to act one way over another. If that is true and someone really believes, the question is why aren’t they behaving randomly.
Believing incoherent notions of good and evil is bad as is the case with evangelicals.
#philosophy #moral #morals #ethics #MoralRealism #metaethics
→ Silicon Valley Goes To War
https://www.noemamag.com/silicon-valley-goes-to-war
“War drones are unlikely to be what most people picture when they think of the Silicon Valley that led the consumer internet revolution.”
“For years, the Valley shied away from military technology. But that was then.”
“The moral gravity of actions or errors can be far greater than a glitch on a smartphone app.”
@jagodamarinic
...auf feine #Unterschiede in der Hochkunst der #Moral ist zu achten...
#GEDANKENBLITZ | Moralischer Kompass
Photo by Bakr Magrabi on Pexels.comVor langer, langer Zeit wurde mir folgender Satz mitgegeben: „Denken Sie immer daran: Sie tragen Verantwortung.“ Egal in welcher Rolle oder Funktion. Am Ende beeinflussen Sie immer Menschenleben.“ Dieser Satz hat sich tief in mein Gedächtnis eingegraben und ist Teil meines moralischen Kompasses geworden. Dazu gehört auch die oberste Direktive des Grundgesetzes: „Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar.” Und das nicht nur im Berufsleben, sondern auch im privaten Alltag. Meiner Meinung nach ist dies ein guter Kompass für das tägliche Handeln und den zwischenmenschlichen Umgang im Berufs- und Privatleben.
Interessanterweise spiegelt sich diese Aussage auch im Nordstern von Toyota wider, der den Menschen und seine Bedürfnisse in den Fokus stellt. Die Sicherheit der Menschen hat oberste Priorität. In diesem Kontext habe ich das Prinzip „Die Welt der Dinge richtet sich an der Welt der Menschen aus” kennengelernt und verinnerlicht. Ein schöner Beleg dafür, dass sich ethisches und unternehmerisches Handeln nicht ausschließen.
Wir tragen Verantwortung. Wir alle. Und das jederzeit. Es liegt an uns, unsere Werte und unsere Haltung mit Leben zu füllen. Für mich bedeutet das, ethische Grundsätze nicht hart zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben zu trennen. Ebenso gehört es für mich dazu, mein Handeln an diesem Kompass auszurichten – auch wenn das nicht immer einfach oder angenehm scheint.
#Ethik #Handlung #Kompass #Moral #Resepekt #Verantwortung #Würde
Für #legitimes #interesse #Demokratie muss man nicht #Moral bemühen. Und auch nachdem sich #Ost und #West erledigt hat, bleibt es #basic #interest des #Mensch rund um die Welt; alles #Egoist ,alle wollen Mitsprache und #gemeinnutz
Our Collective #National #Trauma
TheThinkingAtheist
The daily headlines in Trump's #America feel like body blows. If you're feeling #traumatized, it means you've still got a beating heart and a #moral center.
@jagodamarinic
Wir sollten nur noch von Interessen reden.
was auch sogesehn das moralischere, weil ehrlichere.
Und die Interessen sind ja real und unanfechtbar, realer als die #Moral dazu. Unsere Interessen sind Demokratie, Gemeinnützigkeit, nicht weil es moralisch ist, sondern weil #Demokratie und #Gemeinnützigkeit die bessere Art zu leben ist.
mit den sich wiederholenden Lippenbekenntnissen nerven wir nur die ganze Welt; wir brauchen also nicht davon zu reden, wir müssen es einfach tun.
