Category: ethics

  • MrBeast and the Spectacle of Charity

    MrBeast and the Spectacle of Charity

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    4–7 minutes

    The video MrBeast Is What Marx Warned Us About looks at MrBeast’s philanthropy through a Marxist lens, asking what happens when charity becomes content, suffering becomes watchable, and generosity has to perform well enough to satisfy the algorithm.

  • What a Lie Looks Like

    What a Lie Looks Like

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    7–11 minutes

    This is not a guide to lying. It is a guide to reading deception more carefully. Lies do not always appear as obvious nervousness or dramatic guilt. They often look like control, rehearsal, selective truth, misplaced calm, and stories that only work when no one looks too closely.

  • What a Lie Becomes

    What a Lie Becomes

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    7–10 minutes

    A lie feels like a quick solution, but it creates a second version of reality you have to carry, protect, and maintain.

  • When Law Becomes Too Much

    When Law Becomes Too Much

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    6–9 minutes

    More rules do not always produce more justice. Cicero’s warning, summum ius, summa iniuria, reminds us that law can betray its own purpose when it becomes excessive, rigid, or too clever with its own wording.