ethics

Questions for Christians

  1. Do you believe that children should be responsible for the transgressions of their parents? If your great-grandfather committed a crime, should you also be punished for it?
  2. If you don't believe in such a practice, how do you reconcile this fundamental moral tenet that you practice in your daily life, which is in contrast with Christianity and scripture, which mandates that descendants are responsible for the sins of their forebears?

  3. Do you believe that ritualistic sacrifice and the killing of innocent creatures is a suitable way to repay a debt?

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press suppressed in the UK parliament

Copied from the Spectator's article (who knows they might be gagged too);

"This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It's hard to recall, even in the long history of appalling gagging orders, a more disgraceful injunction than this:

The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.

The future of military robotics

This relates to a lot of the work I do.. very interesting stuff

Dispelling myths about the "developing world"

American Waterboarding

Mean beans and the ethics of an individual

I like to consider myself a fairly ethical person; that isn't to say that I get everything right the whole time, but instead that I try my best to constantly evaluate what is ethical and act upon it.

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