Video games affect your moral development but only until you’re 18 – new study: Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock, Author provided Young people have probably spent much more of their time than usual playing video games over the last few months thanks to the coronvirus pandemic. One report from telecoms firm Verizon said online gaming use went up 75% …
South Africa in the news: Moral Regeneration Month: Why it’s vital to reconstruct SA’s moral fibre beyond COVID-19: July marks the commemoration of Moral Regeneration Month, an initiative aimed at encouraging people to recommit to efforts of building communities grounded on positive values …: “South Africa” – BingNews Most popular running shoes in SA revealed: …
South Africa in the news: Moral Regeneration Month: Why it’s vital to reconstruct SA’s moral fibre beyond COVID-19: July marks the commemoration of Moral Regeneration Month, an initiative aimed at encouraging people to recommit to efforts of building communities grounded on positive values …: “South Africa” – BingNews Most popular running shoes in SA revealed: …
Why ‘there’s no such thing as society’ should not be regarded with moral revulsion: Shutterstock At the end of March, Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, said that the coronavirus crisis had proved there really was such a thing as society. There is no apparent rational basis to his assertion. He seems to have been …
A world of heroes and villains: why we should challenge children’s simplistic moral beliefs: It won't hurt them to know that superheroes are capable of doing wrong too. Rawpixel.com The protagonist of the decorum-defying but wildly entertaining new film, Jojo Rabbit, sees the world in black and white. The film is set in Nazi Germany …
The long moral shadows cast by South Africa’s colonial history: A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide J Causton and Sons /University of California Libraries/ Flickr The post-apartheid state in South Africa inherited many colonial legacies. It has transformed considerably over the past …
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Moral science confirms people behave better when they think they’re being watched: Shutterstock If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept of “never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself”. This has come to be known …
Letters reveal Africanist hero Robert Sobukwe’s moral courage, and pain: Between 1963 and 1969 Robert Sobukwe spent six years of near-complete solitary confinement on Robben Island. Book cover This year marks the 59th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. On 21 March 1960 the apartheid police opened fire on unarmed marchers protesting against …
AI profiling: the social and moral hazards of ‘predictive’ policing: Shutterstock/tana888 A UK police force which was using an algorithm designed to help it make custody decisions has been forced to alter it amid concerns that it could discriminate against poor people. Durham Constabulary has been developing an algorithm to better predict the risk posed …
South Africa needs moral leaders, not those in pursuit of selfish gain: Concerned South Africans disapprove of President Jacob Zuma. Reuters/Mike Hutchings South Africa has seen a great deal of progress in many spheres of life since non-racial democracy in 1994, yet many of its people are still waiting for their hard-won freedom to pay …
Asimov’s laws of robotics aren’t the moral guidelines they appear to be: Tithe Luadthong/Shutterstock Seventy-five years ago, the celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround. Set on Mercury, it features a sophisticated robot nicknamed Speedy that has been ordered to gather some of the chemical selenium for two human space …
South Africa in the news: Ramaphosa offers ‘moral and political support’ to Gordhan: Ramaphosa said he has no doubts about Gordhan’s “commitment in building a better South Africa for all”. He stressed though that like all South Africans, Gordhan remains subject to the laws of the country, and retains his right to remain silent …: …