Abstract Intuitively, many people seem to hold that engaging in acts of virtual murder videogames is morally permissible, whereas child molestation impermissible. The Gamer’s Dilemma (Luck Ethics Inf Technol 11:31–36, 2009) challenges these intuitions by arguing it unclear whether there a relevant difference between two types actions. There are main responses the literature this dilemma. First,...

Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa are sub-Saharan African countries that stand out for their development progress. Each of these countries has succeeded against the odds, against expectations. This paper synthesizes the common ingredients of these countries’ success, and derives lessons. It concludes that smallness, landlockedness, tropical location, distance from world markets, racis...

james morier’s the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan is among works in which traces of the new wave of colonialism at the beginning of the 19th century are clearly evident, a colonialism which, fortified by the newly-established discourse of orientalism, employed literary texts as building blocks to expand and buttress authority and dominance of the west over the east. this paper attempts to ...