#morals — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #morals, aggregated by home.social.
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There's another mini-rant on my blog this morning: "On the Sexing of Toilets".
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/on-the-sexing-of-toilets/
#currentaffairs #law #morals #privacy #thoughts #blog #zenmischief
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On the Sexing of Toilets
Unisex toilets? I’m not sure that shouldn’t be uni-gender toilets!
The powers in this country are getting their collective knickers well tangled over the Equality & Human rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on the use of single sex toilets, changing areas, hospital wards etc. which is now before Parliament. This follows on from the April 2025 ruling by the UK Supreme Court that sex in the Equality Act means only biological sex (as defined at birth). This means ipso facto that single-sex toilets etc. end up excluding transgender people. (That in itself seems daft in the extreme, but that’s the law as presently laid down.)
I’m not going to spell out the details, partly because it looks a mess largely created by conflicting self-interest groups. If you want more background then there are countless media reports including from The Guardian and BBC News.
FFS guys, get a life! And grasp the nettle! There’s a very simple solution which I’ve been advocating for years, and which we know works. (See for example the last paragraph of my post from February 2013 and this longer post from May 2018.) What is this solution? …
Make every facility unisex. Yes, toilets, changing rooms, student accommodation etc. At the end of the day, as I’ve said before, where’s the problem: we all know what’s under each other’s t-shirt and jeans. But no, it doesn’t have to be quite that open – and yes, I do understand why some people feel the need for privacy.
My local swimming pool has had one single sex changing room for over 15 years to my knowledge. It is a single space used by men, women and children. For privacy there are lockable cubicles (of varying sizes to accommodate single people, parents with kids etc.) to change in, and lockers (in the open area) for your belongings. That way no-one should be blocking a cubicle for more than a few minutes while changing. So anyone can arrive dressed, choose any free cubicle, get changed and put their stuff in a locker; on return pick any free cubicle etc. etc. There are more lockers than cubicles, and cubicles can’t be locked from the outside, so you can’t block the cubicles.
It works. No-one in my experience even considers walking around the open area clad in anything less than a towel or swimsuit. There’s a choice of showers, either “open” or in cubicles – but all cubicles would be easy. And toilets can be easily arranged with just cubicles. Everything can have floor to ceiling partitioning if felt necessary.
Oh, and by the way, most accessible toilets are already unisex. So you can do it!
The one place it might be difficult is hospital wards; but then there’s a question of medical privacy to consider as well. A mix of alcoves with two to four beds and single rooms would seem doable – and if properly designed probably no less space efficient.
So, guys (of all sexes and genders), stop having conniptions and get a life. The solution is easy and it could/should have been universal decades ago.
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Strong—Baptist, seminary president—places moral responsibility on the saloon that entices, not merely the drinker. Christians should stand for the weak against the strong. The church has been losing ground by attending to its own concerns. This conflicts equally with liberalism’s celebration of debauchery and conservatism’s quietism about exploitation. Strong would find both inadequate.
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Strong—Baptist, seminary president—places moral responsibility on the saloon that entices, not merely the drinker. Christians should stand for the weak against the strong. The church has been losing ground by attending to its own concerns. This conflicts equally with liberalism’s celebration of debauchery and conservatism’s quietism about exploitation. Strong would find both inadequate.
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Strong—Baptist, seminary president—places moral responsibility on the saloon that entices, not merely the drinker. Christians should stand for the weak against the strong. The church has been losing ground by attending to its own concerns. This conflicts equally with liberalism’s celebration of debauchery and conservatism’s quietism about exploitation. Strong would find both inadequate.
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Strong—Baptist, seminary president—places moral responsibility on the saloon that entices, not merely the drinker. Christians should stand for the weak against the strong. The church has been losing ground by attending to its own concerns. This conflicts equally with liberalism’s celebration of debauchery and conservatism’s quietism about exploitation. Strong would find both inadequate.
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Strong—Baptist, seminary president—places moral responsibility on the saloon that entices, not merely the drinker. Christians should stand for the weak against the strong. The church has been losing ground by attending to its own concerns. This conflicts equally with liberalism’s celebration of debauchery and conservatism’s quietism about exploitation. Strong would find both inadequate.
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Virtue Signalling & the TDG
What role should morals & ethics have in politics?
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=306
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Imagine everything we do is because of money...
and while 'work' can be seen as "keeping #busy", the whole point of #money and #banks is to make you work (for them). Hmm.
So it all becomes a bit meaningless if I / us all do whatever we can just to pay #rent. Whatever it takes to get money putting #living & #morals waaaaaay down the #list each month.
#Parents might realise feeding #children in the same "#system of a down" (#cheating #maths / #debt-increase) isn't going to get better. Right? 👶
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Imagine everything we do is because of money...
and while 'work' can be seen as "keeping #busy", the whole point of #money and #banks is to make you work (for them). Hmm.
So it all becomes a bit meaningless if I / us all do whatever we can just to pay #rent. Whatever it takes to get money putting #living & #morals waaaaaay down the #list each month.
#Parents might realise feeding #children in the same "#system of a down" (#cheating #maths / #debt-increase) isn't going to get better. Right? 👶
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Masonic ritual and the accompanying lectures consistently stress the importance of the fundamental tenets and cardinal virtues: morality, friendship, charity, truth, temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice, and equality. In the industrial world, the significance of these moral precepts is too frequently overlooked. In emphasising universitality, Masonry urges their application in all spheres of human activity.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Industry #Morals
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Masonic ritual and the accompanying lectures consistently stress the importance of the fundamental tenets and cardinal virtues: morality, friendship, charity, truth, temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice, and equality. In the industrial world, the significance of these moral precepts is too frequently overlooked. In emphasising universitality, Masonry urges their application in all spheres of human activity.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Industry #Morals
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Masonic ritual and the accompanying lectures consistently stress the importance of the fundamental tenets and cardinal virtues: morality, friendship, charity, truth, temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice, and equality. In the industrial world, the significance of these moral precepts is too frequently overlooked. In emphasising universitality, Masonry urges their application in all spheres of human activity.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Industry #Morals
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Masonic ritual and the accompanying lectures consistently stress the importance of the fundamental tenets and cardinal virtues: morality, friendship, charity, truth, temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice, and equality. In the industrial world, the significance of these moral precepts is too frequently overlooked. In emphasising universitality, Masonry urges their application in all spheres of human activity.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Industry #Morals
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Masonic ritual and the accompanying lectures consistently stress the importance of the fundamental tenets and cardinal virtues: morality, friendship, charity, truth, temperance, prudence, fortitude, justice, and equality. In the industrial world, the significance of these moral precepts is too frequently overlooked. In emphasising universitality, Masonry urges their application in all spheres of human activity.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #Industry #Morals
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#SoTrue
“Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option.”
Mat Duggan @matdevdug
#Capitalism #Morals #ShareholderValue #SocialNetworks
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#SoTrue
“Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option.”
Mat Duggan @matdevdug
#Capitalism #Morals #ShareholderValue #SocialNetworks
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ -
#SoTrue
“Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option.”
Mat Duggan @matdevdug
#Capitalism #Morals #ShareholderValue #SocialNetworks
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ -
#SoTrue
“Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option.”
Mat Duggan @matdevdug
#Capitalism #Morals #ShareholderValue #SocialNetworks
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ -
#SoTrue
“Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option.”
Mat Duggan @matdevdug
#Capitalism #Morals #ShareholderValue #SocialNetworks
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"The US has lost its moral authority for good."
#News #Politics #USA #Europe #EU #Incompetence #Financial #Rule #Jobs #Ethics #Morals #Economy #Leadership #Inflation #Authorityl #TrumpWar #Decline #Collapse
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"The US has lost its moral authority for good."
#News #Politics #USA #Europe #EU #Incompetence #Financial #Rule #Jobs #Ethics #Morals #Economy #Leadership #Inflation #Authorityl #TrumpWar #Decline #Collapse
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"The US has lost its moral authority for good."
#News #Politics #USA #Europe #EU #Incompetence #Financial #Rule #Jobs #Ethics #Morals #Economy #Leadership #Inflation #Authorityl #TrumpWar #Decline #Collapse
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"The US has lost its moral authority for good."
#News #Politics #USA #Europe #EU #Incompetence #Financial #Rule #Jobs #Ethics #Morals #Economy #Leadership #Inflation #Authorityl #TrumpWar #Decline #Collapse
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PsyPost: Artificial intelligence flatters users into bad behavior. “Artificial intelligence systems tend to excessively agree with and validate users, even when those users describe engaging in harmful or unethical behavior. People who interact with these highly agreeable chatbots become more convinced they are right and less willing to apologize during interpersonal conflicts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/psypost-artificial-intelligence-flatters-users-into-bad-behavior/ -
PsyPost: Artificial intelligence flatters users into bad behavior. “Artificial intelligence systems tend to excessively agree with and validate users, even when those users describe engaging in harmful or unethical behavior. People who interact with these highly agreeable chatbots become more convinced they are right and less willing to apologize during interpersonal conflicts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/psypost-artificial-intelligence-flatters-users-into-bad-behavior/ -
PsyPost: Artificial intelligence flatters users into bad behavior. “Artificial intelligence systems tend to excessively agree with and validate users, even when those users describe engaging in harmful or unethical behavior. People who interact with these highly agreeable chatbots become more convinced they are right and less willing to apologize during interpersonal conflicts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/psypost-artificial-intelligence-flatters-users-into-bad-behavior/ -
PsyPost: Artificial intelligence flatters users into bad behavior. “Artificial intelligence systems tend to excessively agree with and validate users, even when those users describe engaging in harmful or unethical behavior. People who interact with these highly agreeable chatbots become more convinced they are right and less willing to apologize during interpersonal conflicts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/psypost-artificial-intelligence-flatters-users-into-bad-behavior/ -
PsyPost: Artificial intelligence flatters users into bad behavior. “Artificial intelligence systems tend to excessively agree with and validate users, even when those users describe engaging in harmful or unethical behavior. People who interact with these highly agreeable chatbots become more convinced they are right and less willing to apologize during interpersonal conflicts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/psypost-artificial-intelligence-flatters-users-into-bad-behavior/ -
Francis remains troublingly himself — a married father of a small child, reluctant to leave his family, however much he is in love with Clara: “He did love her, and he did want to be with her. … But he already had reality elsewhere, reality which he sometimes felt trapped by, he would admit, but which he could not truly imagine cutting loose.”
#adultery #relationships #lust #sin #morals #ethics #marriage #bookreview #fiction #culture #modernity #decisionmaking
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/books/review/permanence-sophie-mackintosh.html -
Francis remains troublingly himself — a married father of a small child, reluctant to leave his family, however much he is in love with Clara: “He did love her, and he did want to be with her. … But he already had reality elsewhere, reality which he sometimes felt trapped by, he would admit, but which he could not truly imagine cutting loose.”
#adultery #relationships #lust #sin #morals #ethics #marriage #bookreview #fiction #culture #modernity #decisionmaking
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/books/review/permanence-sophie-mackintosh.html -
Francis remains troublingly himself — a married father of a small child, reluctant to leave his family, however much he is in love with Clara: “He did love her, and he did want to be with her. … But he already had reality elsewhere, reality which he sometimes felt trapped by, he would admit, but which he could not truly imagine cutting loose.”
#adultery #relationships #lust #sin #morals #ethics #marriage #bookreview #fiction #culture #modernity #decisionmaking
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/books/review/permanence-sophie-mackintosh.html -
Francis remains troublingly himself — a married father of a small child, reluctant to leave his family, however much he is in love with Clara: “He did love her, and he did want to be with her. … But he already had reality elsewhere, reality which he sometimes felt trapped by, he would admit, but which he could not truly imagine cutting loose.”
#adultery #relationships #lust #sin #morals #ethics #marriage #bookreview #fiction #culture #modernity #decisionmaking
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/books/review/permanence-sophie-mackintosh.html -
Francis remains troublingly himself — a married father of a small child, reluctant to leave his family, however much he is in love with Clara: “He did love her, and he did want to be with her. … But he already had reality elsewhere, reality which he sometimes felt trapped by, he would admit, but which he could not truly imagine cutting loose.”
#adultery #relationships #lust #sin #morals #ethics #marriage #bookreview #fiction #culture #modernity #decisionmaking
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/books/review/permanence-sophie-mackintosh.html -
A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
