Jaber Borran

Category: Ethics

  • 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…

  • A Modern Scientific Approach

    On Thursday, Oct. 9, the Health and Human Services Secretary spoke during a cabinet meeting and shared a story about a pregnant woman “gobbling” Tylenol. “This morning before I came in here, somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman, eight months pregnant. She is an associate professor at Columbia Medical School, and…

  • Government Shutdown, 2025

    By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…