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Unintended consequences of veganism

[This blog was first written in 2018 and has been updated] A vegan professor writes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/scientific-self-experiment-vegan-diet-meat-diet The vegan position in a nutshell Raising animals to be eaten is cruel Killing animals prematurely is cruel And there are environmental issues as well My counter-vegan proposition The cruelty arises in terms of how the animals are raised - there can be humane m
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Haji 2003 in Ethics

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Satan's slipstream or the good in evil

[Originally posted in 2021, updated with a summary and small corrections. Further additions in 2024, with references to Oppenheimer and supporting quotations.] Summary Good people can focus on doing good. Bad people who are motivated by the nafs can be told of the harms in engaging in it, but it's likely that they will persist. Sometimes however evil leads to some positive outcomes - good people can benefit from these, while still maintaining the wrongfulness of the initial action. 
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Haji 2003 in Ethics

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Trust in the Qur'an and comparisons with Luhmann

Summary There are a lot of attempts to link Qur'anic insights with the physical sciences. There's less in the area of the social sciences. For this post, I conversed with GPT4 about some semantic field analysis related to trust references in the Qur'an. Then I asked it to compare these to the work of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The purpose of the latter exercise was not to 'validate' the Qur'an as some analyses of its references to the physical sciences attempt to do, but ra
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Measurement - Izutsu's methodology applied to "ك-ي-ل" (k-y-l) in the Qur'an

Summary I asked GPT4 to apply the methodology of Izutsu's semantic field analysis of the Qur'an to the root k-y-l. For those of you who are not familiar with Izutsu, at the end of this post is a link to a Shiachat thread about him that I created sometime ago. Following the root analysis, the AI came to this conclusion:  The root "ك-ي-ل" and its derivatives contribute to a Qur'anic worldview where justice, truth, and fairness are paramount, both in worldly transactions and in the u
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Haji 2003 in Ethics

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