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• A comment on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: So, we're thinking about sex courses with criticism... something like the walls of Pompéï?
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: A lot of what I see on your webpage and talks is about the normative, what is considered "normal" by people. Now this of course has an impact on what they think is right or wrong. So this issue IS about morality after all. I personally believe that "dialogue" and "testimony" don't make science. They are not sufficient to point out there IS an issue, more that just behaviors shocking to our moral judgment. If we want to have an honnest debate about porn, it has to be grounded in psychology and medecine...
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you think each and every one of us can do to counter the impact and influence of porn as default sex education, everywhere?

  Dec 7 2011: Hi. However interresting this topic may be, I think the whole approach is biased from the beggining. Much more honnest would be to ask WHY and HOW porn is damagable, instead of just assuming it is.

• A comment on Talk: Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

  Nov 28 2011: Oh that was inspiring!

• A comment on Talk: Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom

  Dec 31 2010: I think this talk could be titled "when morality demoralise".

• A comment on Talk: Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

  Jul 29 2010: Very inspirationnal. I see potential parallels in the way we behave when we separate from (lose) mates.
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  A comment on Talk: Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

  May 12 2010: > We form social networks because the costs outweight the benefits.
  - If I do you harm, or give you misinformation, or infect you, you would cut the ties with me.
  - The social network would disintegrate.
  > The spread of good and valuable things are required to sustain a social network.
  - The opposite is also true: social networks are required to spread good and valuable things.
  > Social networks are foundamentally related to goodness.
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  A comment on Talk: Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change

  Apr 16 2010: I think this idea of creating communities is very important. We have to discuss this idea from the point of view of evolution.
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  A comment on Talk: Nate Silver: Does racism affect how you vote?

  Apr 25 2009: I think there is a mistake about this attitude. Thinking in terms of race is just as important (indeed vital) for country people as cosmopolitanism (in Kant fashion) is for city people. Country IS about careful selection and cities ARE about plurality, exchanges, mixtures. So why the cities should impose their mentality to the country people?