Atheist Ethicist

An anonymous member of the studio audience has declared, “I thought I understood desire utilitarianism up to now.” If there is confusion, ...

I have a request from the studio audience to address the moral issue of suicide. Many "relativists" argue that suicide should be...

It’s my birthday, so, today, I am going to take a detour into issues of personal interest. Today’s posting will fit into the general theme...

Blacksun, in commenting on yesterday’s post, said that: I have to part company . . . when you insist that the severity of a person’s need ...

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, when people were charging huge amounts of money for bottled water, John Stossel wrote an article that d...

I have been devoting much of my free time recently to looking into energy policy – particularly on alternatives to fossil fuels. In general,...

Today, as promised, I am going to write about sex. Specifically, I am responding to a comment that G-man made to an earlier post: Consid...

In the comments to a recent post, “G-man” wrote: Consider . . . the fact that our current values are by no means the values we *should* ha...

I am growing concerned with presidential candidates drawing their positions from what the core party members believe, when those core party ...

I am curious how this is going to play out . . . Carnival of the Godless #70 is out on Friendly Atheist. In it is an article from Jacob...

I came across an article recently, on a study relating biology to behavior, (Economist: “ Money Isn’t Everything ”) that was conveniently se...