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  Here.  But it's still capitalism, right? 

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  We might ask the question of why we value human life as something valuable in itself, as opposed to the preservation of life as something ...

We do seem to treat animals differently. We eat them, but some people think they ought to be slaughtered humanely. On the other hand, people...

 (W) e live in an idiotic age where people believe that the alleged hypocrisy of a critic nullifies the merit of criticism. A parent who smo...

  I've never thought the "you play, you pay" argument is very strong. In our male-dominant society men can push women into sex...

  David Brooks , a conservative, thinks conservatism is no longer recognizable today. 

  Where assisted suicide is legal, insurance companies can use assisted suicide as an excuse for not paying for end-of-life treatment. I hav...

  Why is assisted suicide a death with dignity? What does dignity mean here, and does using it in this context fit with the ordinary use of ...

  Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of...

I can understand the case for legalizing assisted suicide. I can. But will suicide be put forward as the preferable option not to save those...

The central prolife argument is that abortion is homicide--that the differences between fetuses and those already born are not substantial e...

 Here.  Believe it or not, this was published in the eeevil New York Times. 

 Lincoln:  "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half  slave  and ha...

• 1. Infants, however undeveloped, are considered persons whose lives are protected by law. • 2. Fetuses differ from infants in four ways...

  I think you can make pragmatic and tentative choices of party as a Christian, but Christian ought to be, in an important sense, independen...

  If soft determinism is true, your total past circumstances, not just being poor, guarantees that you steal. It "makes" you steal...

  The Old Testament is loaded with death penalty offenses, though Christ said the only ones who could carry a death sentence against one adu...

  Looking at the world around me, I have a lot of trouble believing in Karma, at least as it concerns life in this world. The fact is, cold-...