The Sacrifice of Mungo McDonald

Send us Fan MailSee the corresponding Substack episode.The story of Pope Mungo reveals what happens when our comfortable moral categories collapse under the weight of real evilI've been thinking about a question that keeps me awake at night: What happens when love demands something so radical that it becomes unrecognizable as love at all?This isn't theoretical philosophy. It's the kind of question that emerges when you're staring down absolute evil and all your comfortable moral frameworks crumble like ancient parchment.Sacrifice Kindle Edition by Ulrich Schaffer (Author) Format: Kindle EditionThis is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets EmpathyIndependent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas. Support the showDisclosure: This podcast uses AI-generated synthetic voices for a material portion of the audio content, in line with Apple Podcasts guidelines. We make rigorous science accessible, accurate, and unforgettable.Produced by Michelle Bruecker and Scott Bleackley, it features reviews of emerging research and ideas from leading thinkers, curated under our creative direction with AI assistance for voice, imagery, and composition. Systemic voices and illustrative images of people are representative tools, not depictions of specific individuals.We dive deep into peer-reviewed research, pre-prints, and major scientific works—then bring them to life through the stories of the researchers themselves. Complex ideas become clear. Obscure discoveries become conversation starters. And you walk away understanding not just what scientists discovered, but why it matters and how they got there.Independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter.  Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.Spoken word, short and sweet, with rhythm and a catchy beat.http://tinyurl.com/stonefolksongs