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What don’t we see?

Posted onThursday 1 June 2006Tuesday 20 July 2010

June 2006 Firestarter columnby Collie Collier For my readers: All the images in this Firestarter are thumbnails which can be clicked for larger versions of the graphics. Please use your “Back” button on your menu bar to return to this page. Cultural beliefs and taboos are, by their naturalized imprinting into the brains of those…

FIRESTARTER | Ethics questions

Why not torture?

Posted onMonday 1 May 2006Wednesday 8 February 2017

May 2006 Firestarter column by Collie Collier Short answer: acts which deliberately inflict pain and damage, in an effort to denigrate human dignity, are wrong. Long answer: Like most of the difficult ethical questions in life, my path to this decision came slowly, with quite a bit of soul-searching and long discussions with patient friends….