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[quote user="Arius"]It is permissible for the husband to do nothing. It isn't permissible for the druggist to withhold life-saving medicine from the woman. I'm not saying all medicine should be free, nor am I arguing for "free stuff for dying people". It simply seems that...
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Just to make sure we're on the same page, I think it's important to recognise UPB as a deontological system of ethics. Deontology (sometimes called duty ethics) asserts that a moral principle is right for reasons other that a consequence, that the moral value of an action is independant of its...
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I'm confused by UPB; I've spent a few days thinking about how the principle operates with regards to testing moral theories (example: the morality, immorality, or amorality of assault, rape, theft, etc.), and yet I'm not able to understand why certain actions (assault, for example) are necessarily...
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Stef, Please consider doing a Freedomain radio youtube review on the Harrison Bergeron Movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEOI5zwFMM I am offering to contribute to some of the costs of creating such a video and I would be happy to help in the editing of footage (I have a better quality version than...
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[quote user="Dissilusionist"] Killing a human is worse than killing a dolphin which is worse than killing a dog which is worse than killing a mouse which is worse than killing a fly etc. [/quote] That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. Does she know why? Perhaps she'll die. Seriously...
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In 21 parts. Enjoy. http://l0.7w.sl.pt.
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I just watched this video. I thought it was a fairly good introduction to the subject. What are your thoughts?
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If you were a theist, how would you set about proving that morality comes from god? Are there any good arguments for a god-created morality? I can't think of any.
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Is it worse to not know evil and to do evil or is it worse to both know and do evil? Is the answer to this question an endorsement of ignorance? Or, on the other hand, are willfully evil people more virtuous than their unwitting partners-in-crime?