Posted on February 21, 2007 by zoeweil
What does it mean to do the most good and the least harm? How can this become a guiding principle, and how can one always know the answer? After all, we can’t predict the future; we can’t know every detail of every effect of our choices, and it can be awfully difficult to balance our [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2007 by zoeweil
The L.A. Times had an article (http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept) about the conflict between animal protection advocates and those supporting ritual slaughter of bulls in South Africa. It boils down to this (from the beginning of the article): “Thousands of animals are killed every month in South Africa in tribal cleansing ceremonies, and rituals marking births, deaths and [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2007 by zoeweil
While last week’s United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was widely circulated and discussed, The American Enterprise Institute’s offer to scientists of $10,000 to critique this global warming report was a blip in the news. In fact, when I heard about the report – casting little doubt that current global warming is a [...]
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