Category: Philosophy
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Pro choice paradox: why efforts to curb gender selective abortions are irrational
Note: this post discusses what I see as a logical paradox in the current debate about abortion as a means of gender selection. Full disclosure: I am personally pro life. I’ve written before about the topic of gender selective abortion. In developing nations, the process of aborting a fetus (typically of a girl) based on…
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Oklahoma single mother kills intruder in self defense and why it shows the justification for capital punishment
Sarah McKinley, an 18 year old Oklahoma woman whose husband died from cancer on Christmas day found herself in a dangerous situation as two men (one of whom had a large hunting knife) tried to break into her house. When the first man finally broke in, Ms McKinley shot him. Most people would agree that…
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Rant – Why I did NOT Vote
Note: This post was originally published on this blog on November 2, 2010. Here it is published with some modifications. Pet peeve of the day: self righteous voters. No I did not vote today, and I keep seeing these Facebook and Twitter status updates that seem to imply this feeling of superiority to which voters…
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Why Do You Vote How You Vote? And How Do You Know You’re Right? Why I Don’t Vote
Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons We live in a society that values rational, linear arguments. We like to hear arguments and opposing arguments. Based on those arguments, we form objective opinions. Right? I believe it’s the other way around. I think it is that we have opinions and then we adopt arguments that coincide…
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Justification for Favoring the Death Penalty and Being Pro Life
Read a couple of interesting articles last week in the Washington Post. Both discuss the death penalty. The first article, “Like Rick Perry, most ‘pro-life’ Americans OK with death penalty” looks at how politically conservative Americans are overwhelmingly pro-life, and also, overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment. The second article, titled “American Christians and the…
Josh Benner 