Video of Marvin Olasky Interviewing Me
Comment from a student: "The Pope is thought to be pretty progressive. Has he softened the Church’s stance on moral issues?”
Highlights of an interview conducted by Marvin Olasky of World magazine, 2015
You speak of what we “can’t not know,” but surely children don't already know the natural law.
Mondays are my student query days.
Question:
I’ve been arguing with some of my friends about marriage and family. When I bring up a certain scholar’s findings, they say “His data and inferences are worthless because he’s cooperated in a project of the Vatican.” I don’t know how to answer that. Has he really done work with the Vatican?
It would be much easier to agree upon the answers if only people would take the questions seriously.
You saying playing fair is a natural law. But some people don't play fair.
I haven't argued that people always obey these precepts. I've only argued that they know them.
If they don't always obey them, then how do you know that they know them?
Why do you call anything the natural purpose of anything?
Why do we call steering the purpose of your car's steering wheel? Because in the first place it does steer the car, and in the second place that fact is necessary to the explanation of why the car has one.
At a conference several weeks ago, a federal judge told me that some of the defendants in his court weep -- not when they hear their sentence, which would not be surprising, but when they hear the pre-sentence report.
You natural law thinkers seem to be confused about whether natural law comes from God, from nature, from conscience, or from reason.