Morality
The art of ignorance
Category: Morality Written by Ryan Denison

But, as the BBC's Georgina Kenyon describes, Proctor's study was first inspired by a secret memo from the tobacco industry that was released in 1979. The memo, called the Smoking and Health Proposal, was written a decade earlier by the Brown & Williamson tobacco company and one of its most interesting parts was the recommendations for how to effectively market tobacco. Its authors noted that "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public."
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New Year Resolutions: are we lying to ourselves?
Category: Morality Written by Nick Pitts

Resolutions are not a new phenomenon. For ages past, women and men alike have been setting goals and muttering under their breath, "New year, new me." According to a Marist poll, weight loss is the top priority when it comes to resolutions (twelve percent). This is followed by getting a better job (ten percent), which jumped five percentage points from last year. Unfortunately, US News and World Report finds that by the second week of February, some eighty percent of those resolutions will have fallen by the wayside along with confetti from New Years.
An atheist's approach to Christmas
Category: Morality Written by Ryan Denison

Hemant Mehta, a blogger for The Friendly Atheist, sums up this reality well when he says "Christians don't own December. Even if Christmas as a Christian holiday didn't exist right now, I think there would be plenty of reason that it makes sense to take a couple weeks off at the end of the year…This is a nice way to just relax and spend time with your family. If it coincides with the majority's religious holiday, great."
250 McDonald's drive-thru customers 'pay it forward'
Category: Morality Written by Nick Pitts

As the cashier described, when the other driver was told that her meal had been paid for, she was so grateful that she decided to do the same for the driver behind her. The pattern continued for almost the entirety of Figueroa's six-hour shift, as some 250 customers decided to "pay it forward."
Can you hear me now? Etiquette for texting
Category: Morality Written by Nick Pitts

In a study conducted by psychologists from Binghamton University, participants were found to be significantly more likely to view period-punctuated texts less genuine than unpunctuated texts. The more you punctuate, the less real you are.
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