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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Annals of Heartlessness (8): Last Meals Too Expensive
(source) A former Texas inmate who cooked the final meals for hundreds of condemned prisoners on death row has offered to resume the practice at no cost to the state now that officials have disallowed last requests. Brian Price, author … Continue reading
Posted in annals of heartlessness, law
Tagged death row, LAST MEAL, prison, texas, United States
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Statistical Jokes (33): Generic Graph
(source) A similar joke is here. More statistical jokes here.
The Causes of Poverty (50): The Structure of Income Inequality
It seems that one particular aspect of income inequality – namely the degree of inequality between middle income and lower income people – determines the degree of redistribution in a society, and hence the level of poverty of the poorest: … Continue reading
Human Rights Maps (151): Child Poverty in the U.K.
(source) Manchester and the London borough of Tower Hamlets have the highest proportion, with 27%. More than 20% of children also experienced severe poverty in Birmingham and Liverpool. There are a total of 1.6 million severely poor children in the … Continue reading
Posted in data, economics, human rights maps, poverty
Tagged child poverty, children's rights, human rights, mapping, maps, UK
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The Ethics of Human Rights (51): Human Rights and Universal Moral Grammar
It seems that human morality is to some extent ingrained in the human mind and that humans possess an innate moral faculty which we can call Universal Moral Grammar (UMG). “Innate” here refers to cognitive systems whose essential properties are … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (158): Love of Power and Power of Love
(source) More political graffiti here.
The Causes of Human Rights Violations (29): The Bystander Effect
(source, the murder of Kitty Genovese is the archetypical although contested example of the bystander effect) The bystander effect can explain the persistence of certain types or instances of rights violations. If many people witness a person in distress, then … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (157): I Am Free
(source) A similar one is here. More political graffiti is here.
Annals of Heartlessness (7): As Narrated by Mr. Scalia
(source) Justice Scalia’s view of killing or imprisoning the innocent: There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered … Continue reading
Posted in annals of heartlessness, law
Tagged Antonin Scalia, Crime and Justice, death penalty, evidence, heartless, human rights, innocence, Troy Davis
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