This is the paradox of America’s unborn. No life is so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired, so carefully nurtured. And yet no life is so legally unprotected, and so frequently destroyed. Ross Douthat, “The Unborn Paradox”
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“The Unborn Paradox”
Posted in Death, Ethics, Life on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Hypocrisy
Posted in Ethics, Human nature on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. François de la Rochefoucauld
Bureaucracy and Charity
Posted in Economy, Ethics on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bureaucratized social programs are no substitutes for the giving from one person to another that is the true meaning of caritas. And the modern state, which leads us to believe that there are shortcuts, that we can have the results of charity without the personal reality of charity, deceives us. Or perhaps I should say, [...]
A Poultry Farmer Speaks on Factory-Farmed Chickens
Posted in Agriculture, Ethics, Food on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their [...]
