July 23, 2023

Collaboration

New Cover Design As I am nearing completion of Book 4 of the Hunter Series, I realised it made sense to enhance the readers’ experience with fresh and captivating book covers. In light of this, I am delighted to announce a special collaboration that holds great sentimental value to me. […]
July 23, 2023

Miriam

Unveiling Detective Miriam Hunter Hey there! First up, I’ll tell you all about Detective Miriam Hunter, the fascinating chief protagonist in my sci-fi series “The Hunter Series.” Then, I’ll throw in some questions from a recent interview I did that expands on Miriam’s character and backstory. Let’s dive right in! […]
March 17, 2019
Baboon group - from Pixabay

Ethics and the Group

A recent question on Quora was “Do morals and societal ethics evolve from pack/group cooperative behavior?” Here is my answer. There is quite a movement these days about “scientifically based” ethics which assumes or promotes this idea. There is a point to it: elements of our psychology and even physiology […]
July 2, 2016

Eye in the Sky

One of the bonuses of international air travel, especially if you have a busy life, is the option of seeing movies you normally wouldn’t get around to watching. Sometimes the experience is one you’d rather have gone with out. Other times, you find a surprising gem. Eye in the Sky, […]
December 19, 2015

Abortion Rights

In an earlier article I have argued for a woman’s absolute right to abort her embryo or foetus. This was based on the fundamental principle that the origin of rights is not a human shape or a human genome, but the possession of a thinking mind. The same reasoning implies that […]
September 2, 2011

Rational Rioting

A recent Scientific American article on the British riots claimed that “contrary to popular wisdom, mobs are not mindless. In fact, they act rationally—a characteristic that suggests ways to prevent riots.” If you go through the reasoning, what it amounts to is: we need to stop rioting, but rioting is […]
May 21, 2011

The Pox

There is a curious debate on the final elimination of smallpox stocks, reported in The Scientist: Destroying smallpox stocks This week, health ministers from the World Health Organization’s member countries will gather to decide the fate of the last two known remaining stocks of smallpox virus. Scientists and health officials […]
April 9, 2011

Heroes

Ayn Rand identified the “package deal” as one of the deadly errors of thinking: combining opposites into the one concept, thus hopelessly confusing thinking. It is at its worst in ethical issues, where something good is conflated with something bad: something that can only damage the good and promote the […]