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Newsletter Nr. 1.481
Amsterdam, December 23, 2025


“Everyone Does It”: Why Dillard's Defense Misses the Point - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Joseph Dillard's response to Putin's speech is thoughtful, even-handed in tone, and clearly motivated by a desire to resist moral absolutism. Yet precisely because it strives for balance, it ends up blurring distinctions that matter. The recurring move in his reply—everyone does this, all sides are guilty, hypocrisy is universal—has an air of realism. But realism can easily slide into moral flattening, and that is largely what happens here.

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Evolution Seen Through the Stages of Development - A perspectival analysis using Integral Theory's color spectrum - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Evolution, as a scientific theory, describes population-level change through variation, inheritance, and differential reproductive success. That account, however, is not encountered by human beings in a cognitive vacuum. Every culture, and every individual, interprets evolution through a developmental lens shaped by values, identity, and meaning-making capacity.

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