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Thursday, May 21, 2015

12:18PM

"Another study shows ethicists to be especially delinquent library patrons: compared with other philosophy texts, “contemporary ethics books of the sort likely to be borrowed mainly by professors and advanced students of philosophy” were roughly 50 percent more likely to be permanently missing"

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/philosophers-are-hypocrites/392087/

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12:40PM

"The preamble of the 1961 United Nations single convention on narcotic drugs states that the “health and welfare of mankind”, and I repeat “health and welfare of mankind”, is the main objective of that convention. Unfortunately, current drug policies in many countries will not lead to the achievement of that objective."

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/kofi-annan-calls-world-health-assembly-legally-regulate-drugs

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