Jaber Borran

Category: Ethics

  • Smarter, or Better?

    They say “God created human beings in his own image.” I will not opine on the meaning or even the definitions of the terms in this statement, nor on its implications. But one thing I can say for sure, based on the observations of the current state of humanity and how flawed us human beings…

  • Reflecting on the Reflecting Pool

    U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro moved to dismiss a felony vandalism indictment against the former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn. Her office stated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage was due to a botched contractor installation, not vandalism. This is after so much fanfare and headline-grabbing statements in press conferences by Pirro assuring that there was…

  • Not Just a Right, But Also a Responsibility

    To those friends of mine who did not listen to their wiser friends and voted for a lunatic communist Marxist in 2024: I kept telling you that voting is not just a right, but also a responsibility, but you laughed at me and told me things like: “what else? now I am responsible for what…

  • Senator Lindsey Graham

    Death of a person is not something to celebrate, no matter how evil we perceive that person to be. In fact, I am not sure whether anybody can be willingly evil. I believe that to be an illness, like cancer or depression. But that is an entirely different topic for a different time. This post…

  • Bias Blinds

    Sometimes ago, a friend of mine expressed, with awe and astonishment, that during the Iranian uprising of 2009, he had witnessed very smart and knowledgeable colleagues support Ahmadinejad. And wondered how it would be possible for someone capable of solving very complex problems in their field of expertise, to not see through the deceptions and…

  • Hope

    Three things that keep me hopeful about the future of the country, and humanity in general: Long live the King!

  • Minimum Wages

    My rather extreme liberal political and socio-economic leanings are no secret. But, like most others, I have very close friends with vast amounts of knowledge on different subjects and impeccable critical thinking abilities in their professional field, but somehow obsessed with the following two things: And, in recent years, this obsession has gone insofar as…

  • Quiet Piggy

    Earlier this year, when I shared, in a group chat among former classmates, links to news articles about a couple of our president’s own Truth Social posts, one ending with “Long Live the King,” and the other one envisioning the future of Gaza as a casino town with tall buildings and flashy “Trump Hotel” or…

  • A Shameful Stunt

    What a shameful stunt! Now that the pressure has built up and Trump knows he will be losing the House vote on Tuesday, he is suddenly all for releasing the files. Because, you know, he has nothing to hide. Only, so far he has been calling it a hoax (although he and most of his…

  • Fighting Fire with …

    When I was in high school, a very good teacher of mine once told me something that I don’t think I will ever forget. Most of my friends have likely already heard me say this, possibly multiple times, but I am going to write it here again, anyways. He said: “Jaber, I think one should…