Interesting Links for 10-06-2014

[andrewducker]

• Impressions: James McAvoy does Patrick Stewart does James McAvoy (also, McKellen and Fassbender!)
  (tags: PatrickStewart IanMcKellen video )
• No, a supercomputer hasn’t passed the Turing test for the first time
  (tags: computers ai turing )
• In Edinburgh? Interested in Democracy? There's an event on Tuesday you should go to.
  (tags: democracy Edinburgh )
• What difference does 4.5 Degrees make?
  (tags: temperature globalwarming )
• The airline pilot on a mission to revolutionise the NHS
  (tags: nhs safety )
• List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
  (tags: movies fuck language wikipedia )
• Financial hardship can make people more racist
  (tags: racism poverty )
• Apparently we need to educate Archbishops as to whether having sex with children is illegal
  (tags: Child_abuse catholicism )

Comments

[dalglir]

It would seem that closed ideology echo chambers are not restricted to politics but present in many places, including the Catholic Church. These guys, trusted authority figures dealing with some of the most vulnerable adults and children in society, belonging to an organisation that is supposed to be doing Good Works, how could they not know that abusing children is plain morally wrong, let alone illegal.

How could they not know?

An organisation that allowed (allows?) child abuse to persist, unpunished, barely punished, covered up, or somehow sickly justifies it while moving perpetrators to new locations to give them fresh starts (and fresh victims in some cases) is truly rotten.

Let's see some justice done. 'Ignorance' should be no protection from the law.

[andrewducker]

The "how could they not know" question is, I think, the right one.

Because, for fuck's sake, you'd think that certain things were really obvious.

I've read some research that people that see themselves as being "good" let them get away with so much more, because they believe that anything they do must be a good thing.

Frankly, it's sickening.

[matgb]

people that see themselves as being "good" let them get away with so much more, because they believe that anything they do must be a good thing.

Plus, also, that they can't do bad things. "Good" people, nice respectable people, aren't racist, that's those lowlife skinhead thugs, not that nice Mr Helmer, etc etc.

It applies in so many different fields, it's really quite worrying.