Monday – Student letter day!
Question:
Secular humanists deny God, holding that nothing is greater than human beings. However, do they think that some humans are greater than others?
Reply:
Last month I wrote about my conversation with a federal judge who told about the many defendants in his court who weep when they hear the pre-sentence report. Subsequently I asked him for details, and here is his reply.
For some years I have been building a case about moral knowledge, moral denial, and the revenge of conscience. In this new series, I will simply and concisely put all the pieces of the argument in one place. It will run only on Thursdays, with posts on other topics several other times a week. This is all copyrighted, of course.
Why was former President George W. Bush so resolute in assembling a coalition and a massive accumulation of force to achieve regime change during the Second Iraq War – but so irresolute (though not so irresolute as his successor) in stabilizing the country afterward?
Many a louse parades his exquisite capacity for compassion, and I have taken my turn among the louses. So you will understand that I am not boasting of my virtue when I remark that ever since coming of age I have been acutely uneasy about social wrongs.
Question:
“The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth.”
-- attributed to Malcolm Muggeridge
Tomorrow: Proving Natural Law
Could it be that for many people the debate about homosexuality has less to do with homosexual than heterosexual behavior?
Consider the popular line, “They can’t help how they feel.” This proposition is the minor premise of an implied syllogism, the major premise of which may be put, “To act upon a desire which one cannot help feeling is always blameless.”
What are we to think of seemingly irrational government regulations, such as the proposed rule which would treat a mud puddle on a farmer’s land the same as a navigable river? I suppose there might somewhere exist a few addle-pated regulators who really believe that the future of the planet depends on such edicts, but there couldn’t be many of them. I think there is more to it.