Atheist perspectives on sexual morality Recently, I finally got around to picking up a copy of Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and Morals, the notorious book that played a major part of the campaign to get him barred from teaching in New York. I also had brought to my attention a Richard Dawkins piece on sexual jealousy [...]
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Marriage, morals, and the green-eyed monster
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 15, 2009
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How bad is poverty, really?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 6, 2009
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Most people think that poverty–maybe not as it exists in the first world, but at least as it exists in the third world–is pretty awful. For one thing, most people think–or at least often talk as if–premature death is one of the worst things that can happen to you. They understand what is meant by [...]