empathy Archives • Skeptical Science

What motivates ISIS to deploy Suicide Bombers?

November 23, 2020March 30, 2016 by Dave

Imagine you are walking down the street one day and as you do so you are accosted like this, how would you then feel … It started at about 11 this morning, I’m just walking down the street on some Important White Guy Business (going to have coffee with a friend or whatever), when this … Read more

Being good without any god

May 6, 2024December 5, 2013 by Dave

Belief often insists that it retains the high moral ground and also asserts a monopoly over meaning, and yet the evidence for this is simply not there at all. It is perhaps all part of the psychology of belief where an appeal to our empathy is tapped into by asserting a claim that inside the … Read more