That's a term ceruleanst used when I was talking about the protagonist in Ghost several weeks ago, to describe the concept that "enough good deeds will offset a certain amount of evil ones ( Read more... )

I should probably pick a point when I have more time than I do right now, but, eh, what the heck.

Some recent comments on my entry on moral equivalence, along with Postvixen’s recent opus, prompted me to get around to this commentary. I believe that certain moral standards are ‘absolute’, or as nearly so as to make no bones about the difference ( Read more... )

A few thoughts on things about "sexual abuse" reporting that bugs me ( Read more... )

There's a world of middle ground between "zero population growth" and "no population control whatsoever."
( This was too long for a note so I made it an entry )

About a week ago, Prester Scott wrote about the morality, or lack thereof, of contraception in a Christian context. In response, I posited that, historically, Christianity condemned contraception because, for a variety of reasons, uncontrolled population growth was a positive good. Given that the situation between today and Biblical times -- or ( Read more... )