Morality
Me On Conservatism
Strictly speaking, “conservatism” only plays for a tie. In American conservatism, there’s a bit of revanchism, but only so much of a rollback is even possible: overturn Roe and the question reverts to the states as a matter of policy… Continue Reading
Virginia’s “Foolish” Personhood Law? A look under the hood
Via LoOG regular Mr. Gregniak: Virginia’s House of Delegates has just passed a fetal personhood law. Virginia’s Foolish Personhood Law DOUG MATACONIS · SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012 · Virginia’s legislature was very busy last week. Not only did they pass… Continue Reading
The Best Argument in Favor of Capital Punishment
Christopher Carr comments that “if we’re going to have capital punishment, we shouldn’t sugarcoat or whitewash it. We should have public gladiatorial competition or hangings with children in attendance. If we’re going to be barbarians, let’s at least be barbarians… Continue Reading
Abortion and Eugenics
Eugenics still exists. There’s no nice or PC way to say this, but we abort our imperfects now. JP Morgan, a rich bastard everybody hated and for good reason, was drug up before the Senate for whatever. A flak for… Continue Reading
Air Force Ends 20-Year Nuclear Ethics Program
An interesting story broke a few days ago when truthout.org released an Air Force PowerPoint presentation used in an ethics training program given to its nuclear ballistics personnel. The Air Force promptly withdrew the materials after truthout.org’s complaints of the… Continue Reading
Biology and Liberalism
Kevin Drum wonders: to the extent that you really do believe that cognitive abilities are (a) important, and (b) strongly biologically determined, shouldn’t you also believe that the poor are more unlucky than anything else, and haven’t done anything to… Continue Reading
Consistency Check: Torture, Abortion, & the Individual Mandate
It’s easy to take an indignant moral position on a single issue. “Torture is wrong.” “Abortion is wrong.” “Coerced transactions are wrong.” Such positions aren’t rare, and thus not particularly interesting. What is rare, however, is the ability to demonstrate… Continue Reading
Quote of the Day
Matt Zwolinski on Rand Paul equating universal health care with slavery: [P]erhaps it’s inevitable that politicians are going to badly over-simplify moral arguments. And I suppose that if I had to choose, I’d much rather have a Senator who over-simplified… Continue Reading