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...
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...
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...
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...
What I’d Like to Have Written About Fred Nile
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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