Giubilini and Minerva on abortion and infanticide
Whether abortion and infanticide are morally equivalent or not is a legitimate question for discussion, and ethicists should be allowed to have it without encountering death threats. However, emotive responses to these issues are also legitimate, and needn’t be dismissed out of hand.
The ‘Protect Life Act’ and Republican conservatism
The Protect Life Act and the Personhood Pledge might well appeal to conservative elements in American society, but they represent regressive steps that will serve to undermine the liberties of women.
Logical sledgehammers can miss their targets
While it’s good to not let people get away with sloppy reasoning on matters of importance (and more generally, most of the time), it’s also important to avoid letting logical fervor distract you from noticing the value that might be embedded in writing that you disagree with. The principle of charity helps to protect us from intellectual arrogance, and allows conversations to continue rather than being artificially curtailed.
Cape Times and Argus – holocaust denialists?
Is Taryn Hodgson not aware that there are plenty of other babies (real and fake) killed by TB and AIDS (etc.) who die without funerals? Can we take her seriously until she insists on publishing obituaries for them, too – or are they less important for the purposes of this tasteless PR stunt in the service of Jesus?
Moral agency
I’ve been thinking more about the National Interfaith Leadership Council, following an invitation to participate in the After 8 Debate (SAFM, September 25, around 08h05 NOW POSTPONED) alongside Ray McCauley and a representative of the SA Council of Churches. Part of the problem with religion hijacking moral discourse is the way in which it dumbs [...]
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