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- Virtues & Vices of Election Prediction Markets (Nate Silver on suspicious bets) http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/oct-23-the-virtues-and-vices-of-election-prediction-markets/ 2 comments
- Look on the dark side | We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice https://aeon.co/essays/in-these-dark-times-the-virtue-we-need-is-hopeful-pessimism 195 comments philosophy
- Taliban enforces order for Afghan women TV anchors to cover faces aliban enforces order for Afghan women TV anchors to cover faces. The decree was announced by the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Ministry. | Women's Rights News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/22/afghan-women-tv-anchors-forced-to-cover-faces-under-taliban-order 50 comments worldnews
- Taliban impose beard-trimming ban in Helmand province: The Taliban have banned barbers in Afghanistan's Helmand province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming it breaches Islamic law. The orders were issued by the vice and virtue department of the provincial Taliban government https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-impose-beard-trimming-ban-in-helmand-province/av-59333594 12 comments worldnews
- Afghanistan: Taliban replaces women's ministry with 'vice and virtue' ministry - as schools reopen for boys https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-taliban-replace-womens-ministry-with-vice-and-virtue-ministry-as-schools-reopen-for-boys-12410990 3 comments worldnews
- The Taliban bring back the feared ministry of ‘vice and virtue’ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/the-taliban-bring-back-the-feared-ministry-of-vice-and-virtue/ 6 comments worldnews
- Imagine there’s no jealousy: why we should understand jealousy as nothing more than a vice that ought to be replaced by the new virtue of compersion https://aeon.co/essays/love-without-jealousy-consider-the-benefits-of-compersion 422 comments philosophy
- Immanuel Kant held that moral education is hydraulic: shame squashes down our vices, making space for virtue to rise up https://aeon.co/essays/on-immanuel-kants-hydraulic-model-of-moral-education 406 comments philosophy
- Brill Kristol: "A little alarmism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Complacency in the defense of democracy is no virtue." https://thebulwark.com/be-alarmed/ 27 comments moderatepolitics
- Bertrand Russell vs. William James - the virtue of doubt and the vice of belief https://reasonandmeaning.com/2019/01/28/the-will-to-doubt-summary-of-bertrand-russells-free-thought-and-official-propaganda/ 91 comments philosophy
- Virtue, vice, sex, and robots | podcast applying Aristotelian ethics to sex robots http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-immoral-fantasy-of-robot-sex/8945496 8 comments philosophy
- Is Elizabeth Warren Really the Best Choice for Vice President? - "A vice presidential pick should neither overshadow the top of the ticket nor jeopardize control of Congress. For all of her virtues, Warren might do both." http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/should_hillary_clinton_pick_elizabeth_warren_for_vice_president.html 13 comments politics
- Is Elizabeth Warren Really the Best Choice for Vice President? - A vice presidential pick should neither overshadow the top of the ticket nor jeopardize control of Congress. For all of her virtues, Warren might do both. http://amp.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/should_hillary_clinton_pick_elizabeth_warren_for_vice_president.html 9 comments politics
- The Virtues and Vices of Single-Payer Health Care: "Controlling medical spending does not, the Canadian experience demonstrates, require cost sharing that deters utilization." http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp1602009 63 comments politics
- Voters take note: Study shows virtues, not vices, lead to more effective political leadership http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/02/16/voters-take-note-study-shows-virtues-not-vices-lead-to-more-effective-political-leadership/ 4 comments science
- Ayn Rand vs. Adam Smith - Health care debate depends on whether you believe compassion is a virtue or a vice http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/ayn-rand-vs-adam-smith 4 comments politics
- The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) has registered several complaints with the organizers of the Historic Jeddah festival, including women participants not wearing modest dress and music played too loud by a local radio station. http://www.arabnews.com/news/692196 4 comments worldnews
- Call to arrest atheist bloggers -- Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has asked the interior ministry to arrest several people for apostasy and atheism http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/call-to-arrest-atheist-bloggers-1.1373110 30 comments worldnews
- Thin ice "You have adopted the ways of the Object-Relational Mapping, in a framework of your own devising. I am acquainted with the virtues of this approach, but also with its vices." http://thecodelesscode.com/case/134 4 comments programming
- Big problem for Christians in the grand conservative coalition; Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism--which celebrates selfishness as a virtue, declares religious faith to be incompatible with reason and says altruism is a vice--helped inspired Anton LaVey, author of "The Satanic Bible" http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/4/9476/33834/ 27 comments politics
- Cash-strapped states find new virtues in 'vice' -- alcohol, gambling and marijuana. Lawmakers are "trying anything and everything in order to bring their budgets into balance." http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748703572504575214382430311578.html 5 comments politics
- For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/technology/02porn.html?ex=1338436800&en=be6f7a83f149ccbd&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss 10 comments reddit.com