Author: Shahid Bolsen

To a certain extent, I think that men do wrong, even self-harming wrong, to declare to themselves that they have free will. Doing what is right, precisely because it is right, does not prove to men convincingly that they are free. Affirming to themselves that they have the ability to be defiant, and that they,…

Whatever evil is done by some segment of humanity, it can be done by any segment. We are each capable of doing whatever is done by any member of our species, and we must not be deluded about this. This creates an even greater impetus for us to intervene and stop horrific atrocities. If empathy…