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  • If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?

    If Infanticide is Wrong, is Abortion Wrong?0

    Should we abandon arguments for abortion if they also permit infanticide? Two US-based academics say “yes”. In a new paper in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, philosophers David and Rose Hershenov suggest that non-conscious fetuses and minimally conscious neonates are morally equivalent in their fundamental interests, namely, their shared interest in “healthy development”. Insofar as

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  • If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?

    If Global Warming Is Killing Us, Why Is Global Life Expectancy Increasing?0

    According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (“Mortality in the United States, 2017“), “Life expectancy for the U.S. population declined to 78.6 years in 2017.” If accurate, a decline in life expectancy is a cause for concern because, since the mid nineteenth century, we’ve come to expect life expectancy in Europe

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  • If Gender is ‘Fluid,’ Why are Gender Reveal Parties So Popular?

    If Gender is ‘Fluid,’ Why are Gender Reveal Parties So Popular?0

    It’s definitely a girl. Definitely. That’s what family and friends of Matt Ostergaard and Adrianna Zbik learned last week when Ostergard arranged for the 187-foot-tall SkyWheel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to be lit up in pink for his child’s “gender reveal.” Amazingly, this was not the first Ferris wheel gender reveal. In the spring,

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  • If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting

    If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting0

    On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green

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  • If ‘Hell’ Exists, What Does It Mean for God?

    If ‘Hell’ Exists, What Does It Mean for God?0

    I don’t like the Christian doctrine of Hell. I write this with a full awareness that the truth depends absolutely not at all on my personal preferences and sensibilities. What is, is, regardless of what I think or how I feel about it.  There are, of course, different interpretations of Hell. But unquestionably the most common

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  • IDVID-2020: Our Other Virus

    IDVID-2020: Our Other Virus0

    It seems a newer virus is now infecting American citizens. It can be deadly, killing off joy, compassion, reason, and objectivity. It renders its victims deaf to argument and blind to facts, creating in some of them so fevered a passion that they wind up in cloud cuckoo land. This virus goes under the name

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