“I don’t think God created us to be string puppets,” said John C. Board, an Episcopal deacon at a church in Helena who supports the Baxter claim. “If we say that God has given everyone free will, that means God has given you the opportunity to do things right and do things wrong.”
…neuroscience is increasingly producing insights into human behaviour that are relevant to society … this progress also brings new ethical concerns
Preferences for Psychological Enhancements: The Reluctance to Enhance Fundamental Traits: We found that people were much more reluctant to enhance traits believed to be highly
British Psychological Science Research Digest: Moral psychology gets more tricky when the interests of the many are pitted against the few, as in the classic
President Obama has disbanded the President’s Council on Bioethics appointed by his predecessor and will appoint a new group soon.
In my family, guns were a way of life. We killed our own meat—usually wild goats and pigs. And, we all knew, that if you shot something you had to eat it—guns were to be used to get food. So, pigeons, goats and pigs graced our table and we all knew better than to point guns at something that we wouldn’t want to eat for dinner.
Americans’ views about what is and isn’t morally acceptable in today’s culture have not changed dramatically over the past year. To the extent they have changed, they have moved slightly to the right on a handful of issues, almost entirely because of more pronounced conservative shifts among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
I wonder if younger women are now sure enough of their sexual autonomy and their choices generally that they don’t view limits on abortion as attacks on their overall freedom. My theory? People always apply the brakes to whichever side has the momentum.
A new report on the state of the workplace for LGBT Americans shows that the Fortune 500 is way ahead of churches when it comes
“Hence persons who raise questions about biblical prohibitions of certain species of sexual behavior between individuals of the same gender may be “revisionists”; but they are no more so than many of the prophets—or Jesus, or Paul, or certain of the saints of later times (Athanasius, e.g., or MartinLuther, or the Wesleys, or Wilberforce, or F. D. Maurice, or Martin Luther King, Jr.).”