Posts Tagged ‘ ethics ’

The Problems With Obligatory Dangerousness

6 January, 2012
By Raphael Fraser

Happy New Year, first of all. The other day I happened upon a 2008 paper by Large, Nielssen, Ryan, and Hayes, entitled “The danger of dangerousness: why we must remove the dangerousness criterion from our mental health acts.” (J Med Ethics 2008;34:877-881). I won’t link to it, as it’s not freely available. However, I will...

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What I’d Like to Have Written About Fred Nile

2 August, 2011
By Raphael Fraser

Fred Nile, the National President of the Christian Democrat party, is a loathsome little weasel indeed (that’s not what I’d like to have written; it’s what I have written). He is so blindly obsessed with preventing the teaching to children of philosophical discourse about ethics that he has abandoned any pretence of behaving like...

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South Dakota: Justifiable Homicide of Abortion Providers?

16 February, 2011
By Raphael Fraser

Here’s an interesting one, there’s legislation proposed in South Dakota that would expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include actions in defence of a fetus: “Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person whilst resisting an attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and...

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Anonymous Need Ethics Classes

15 February, 2011
By Raphael Fraser

I read this morning about Anonymous hacking a security firm whose CEO was attempting to discover their real identities and go to the FBI. I presume this is seen as a good thing, as Anonymous support Wikileaks, and therefore must be right in all things. However… It is worth thinking about some of what they...

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Sin, Responsibility, and the Immorality of the Resurrection Myth

3 December, 2010
By Raphael Fraser

First, a disclaimer: I am about as far from a bible scholar as one could be and still think about religious matters. It is only recently, and with great reluctance, that I downloaded the King James onto my iPhone. The closest I’ve got to reading the bible in the past was when I had...

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