Atheist Ethicist

I am going to do something new with this blog for a while. I am accustomed to writing about things which I have considered, and about whic...

Yesterday, I wrote about a couple of hundred thousand arrogant, ignorant, semi-barbarians gathering at a rally in Bangladesh demanding that ...

Pedophiles ought to be free to have sex with children. After all, pedophilia is not a choice. No person would choose pedophilia. If you thin...

Steven Pinker has proposed abandoning morality and replacing it with a project of attaching human sentiment to that which promotes human flo...

Steven Pinker and the Concept of Harm Steven Pinker proposed replacing "morality" with a project of directing our sentiments tow...

According to Steven Pinker, we should abandon morality and attach our sentiments to that which promotes human flourishing and minimizing har...

As I wrote yesterday, Steven Pinker claims that we ought to abandon morality and, instead, replace it with a system where we attach our sent...

Stephen Pinker and others like him are in the process of setting moral philosophy back 300 years. I mean this as a literally true statemen...

I was asked the following question: Alonzo: in the South, where I was born & lived most of my life, the majority of people think that ...

Today, to end my series on space development, I will engage in some wild and speculative prognostication. Many space enthusiasts advocate ...

Today, I am continuing a series that I am writing mostly for enjoyment on the value of developing space. I mentioned one important reason ...

The value of a space station In this trip into space, you so far remain on an observation deck at 0.6 G, enjoying a refreshing drink of yo...

In my last post, referencing the economics of a space station, I mentioned the fact that there is more money to be had fulfilling the fewer ...

In this series about that which has value in space development, I began you on a trip into space. I have presented the value of a space st...

I am taking this week to talk about space development – looking at where research time and money ought to be going with the idea of developi...

In yesterday’s post, I got you into orbit. You are now floating above the equator. While you enjoy weightlessness, the pilot is checking ...

This week I am going to have some fun describing life in space. However, this will not be a frivolous waste of time. There are certain fac...

My Wild Scheme - Auctioning the Moon This post is fantasy - something I find pleasing to imagine but not something I expect to become real...