Atheist Ethicist

History is filled with examples of people who have used religion to justify horrendous atrocities against their fellow human. However, histo...

Martin pointed out, accurately, that a couple of days ago I did not actually address the question of whether a 16-year-old be allowed to ch...

The immoralities that I have condemned in the past two days showed up in the headlines again this morning, this time relating to the issue o...

Last week, while I was in the middle of wish week, I read a story about a 16-year-old cancer patient suing for the right to choose his own m...

There are more than 60 people trapped in a large burning building, and there are two possible exits. One exit requires walking through The S...

I wish to let it be known that, in this current conflict, if one had to make a choice between Israel and its enemies, a person of good moral...

A while ago I learned that if you want to see what evil lurks in the heart of any administration, wait for a major news story to dominate Pa...

I wrote this list of wish a while back with the expectation that I could use them and take a week off from the daily obligation of coming up...

Wish Week Day 5: Restructure NASA We are on Day 5 of “Wish Week” – a week of ideas that I would wish for if I had the power to make wishes...

This is now Day 4 of “Wish Week” – a week of ideas that I would wish for if I had the power to make wishes (or the money to make such a wish...

This is the third in a series of posts for “Wish Week” – a week devoted to perhaps fanciful ideas on how to make the world a better place. S...