In a podcast published in September 2019, entitled «My body, my choice», the hosts of the online media Liber-thé presented their arguments in favor of drug legalization. A purely liberal argument, not without a major weakness.
«For your health, avoid snacking between meals», «Eat five fruits and vegetables a day», «Stay hydrated», etc. Between solicitude and injunction, our daily infantilization profoundly modifies our behavior. Is the state the only one to blame?
Usant des codes du jeu vidéo, la gamification rend les tâches peu ludiques du quotidien plus attrayantes. La méthode est efficace. Reste qu’elle infantilise un public adulte, ce qui pose des questions d’ordre social et moral. Exemple dans le domaine de la santé.
Getting vaccinated? An act of «responsibility»! Just like turning down your thermostat to 19°, stopping flying or cutting down on meat consumption. The rhetoric of the call to responsibility, omnipresent today, conceals a dark side.
When it comes to the protection of personal data, there's a common misconception: why not be digitally transparent if you have nothing incriminating to hide? Let's deconstruct this fallacious argument.
Surrogate motherhood is not legal in Switzerland. Like other bioethical issues, it marks a deep division between conservatives and progressives. This is an opportunity to attempt a definition of these terms, a few months ahead of the federal elections.
In the mid-2000s, faced with China's rise to power, the idea emerged of a necessary and close collaboration between China and the United States. Since then, so much has changed in the Sino-American relationship that the future does not bode well. But perhaps it could have been otherwise.
The history of Swiss political parties is rich and complex. However, it reveals a certain continuity through which they learn to renew themselves as direct democracy, and the evolution of society it often reflects, impose new themes on their agendas.
En quête de reconnaissance internationale depuis plusieurs années, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, fraîchement réélu à la tête de la République de Turquie, conduit son pays sur la voie d’une politique extérieure ambigüe.