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The Ethics Of Precrime
This is Part II of our discussion of predicting individual crime. See Part I. The moral question is this: should an authority take action against you if an algorithm spits…
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Canada Slipping Fast Back Into Paganism: “Doctors” Ordered To Kill
The slogan in Canada will soon be Whatever you do, don't go to the "doctor". You might not make it out alive. Yeoman Wesley Smith reports "Canada Proposes Forcing Doctors…
First Annual Political Correctness Day: Date TBA
There is nothing more important than Tolerance, Diversity, and Multiculturalism! So we are told. Yet those who tout these traits lie. This is easy to prove. Go to any person…
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Saying “He’s A No-Good, Pandering Populist” In A Democracy Is Funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE This video is an allegory for what Trump is doing to the GOP. First things first. All you guys who support Donald Trump and believe he is a "true,…
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Infinity, (Physical) Parameters, Fine Tuning, & Probability
Via Ed Feser I was led back to Alvin Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, which has a lot about probability. I'll not do much of…
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This Week In Doom: The Demands And Ravages Of Equality
Progressive beasts We had fun with the foolish Vox explaining that animals "in the wild" suffer from being eaten, from disease, from neglect, from the lack of personal recognition, and…
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The Theology of Science-fiction: Some SF “Gospels”—guest post by Bob Kurland
Be sure to visit Bob's main site, Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. Note: this article originally during Lent, 2015. ...when I was not prey to the temptations of this world,…
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The Crybaby Fallacy (Which Atheists Often Use)
Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So's-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn't exist, they say or imply, because He's a big meanie, because His demands…