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May 17, 2022

On Compassion for Fascists

The Buffalo Mass Shooting occurred yesterday. A young white man shot thirteen people, eleven of them Black, and killed ten. Prior to doing so, he published a manifesto in which he espoused the Great Replacement Theory and associated ideas. The lineage of Great Replacement Theory goes via Hitler’s Mein Kampf…

2022 Buffalo Shooting

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On Compassion for Fascists
On Compassion for Fascists
2022 Buffalo Shooting

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Mar 30, 2022

Moral duty, discipline, happiness: the Buddhist paradigm shift

Having dinner with friends one evening, someone commented on how well Taiwanese vegan cuisine is able to imitate meat. ‘Kind of defeats the point, doesn’t it?’ someone scoffed. My initial feeling was to agree: it did seem like a cheat, if you’re serious about veganism, to be trying to simulate…

Buddhism

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Buddhism

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Michael Springer

Michael Springer

Thinking about emotions, ethics, and human flourishing, via the various perspectives from which they’ve been approached.

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