We have proved yet again that the future is that undiscovered country with our predictions for 2013. See the original guesses here. Don’t make new predictions here. Tomorrow I’ll start the thread, […]
The Hypocrisy Fallacy: If You Don’t Do What’s Right, I Don’t Have To Either!
We continue our delightful series1 of mistakes in logic, this time highlighting the hypocrisy fallacy. It also has an official Latin name: ad hominem tu quoque, which loosely translated is, “You canting, […]
Richard Dawkins Is A Dangerous Man: Update
I’ll tell you how. He makes people feel smarter than they are. And in our world of self-esteem substituting for accomplishment and ability, his villainous power is especially poisonous. For instance, he […]
General Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VII is fun: General Ethics. That morality really exists and […]
Small Things
Have a bit of a bug, so only a few small things today. Red State A reliable, though not infallible, mark of a bad argument is the level of self-congratulation of its […]
Applied Ethics: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part VIII
Read Part VI. Remember, we’re doing summaries of summaries here; only bare sketches are possible. Buy his book for more detail. Question VIII is Applied Ethics. Time to get dirty! Article 1: […]
The HHS Mandate & Hobby Lobby: Updated
I’m a little late with this; pressures of work. Nevertheless, it’s Hobby Lobby appreciation day. Open letter from CEO. One day the department of Health and Human Services sat in a room […]
Changing Attitudes On Suicide And Euthanasia
We had such fun with abortion attitudes, today this: From the General Social Survey, a picture of the support for suicide and euthanasia by reason from 1977 until 20061. GSS questions on […]
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