by Ken Sehested | Sep 18, 2019 | Opinion
We need to recognize, and adjust in appropriate ways, to the fact that we humans maintain a perverse fascination with disaster. I’ll leave it to psychologists to explain why precisely, but this habit is easily illustrated: from slowing down to view the scene of a...
by James L. Evans | Dec 4, 2018 | Opinion
While touring the devastation in the small community of Paradise, California, state Sen. Jim Nielsen had this to say about the tragedy: “It is a historic, almost biblical disaster. Old Testament.” We could probably find similar comments about Hurricane Florence or the...
by Barry Howard | Oct 12, 2018 | Opinion
This has been a sad and anxiety-riddled week on the Florida Panhandle. One of the most powerful storms in history sprinted across the Gulf of Mexico and then blitzed ashore between Florida’s Panama City Beach and Port Saint Joe, wreaking havoc from Navarre Beach to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 29, 2017 | News
More than 130 million people needed humanitarian aid assistance in 2016 (up from 125 million in 2015), according to the 2017 edition of the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) “World Humanitarian Data and...
by Gary Furr | Oct 6, 2017 | Opinion
Violence in our society is a perplexing reality. If we look at it in terms of statistics, there is less killing and crime in many categories than in many years. When we see the daily litany of murder stories on the news, though, and compare our nation to other...
