Category: issues
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Agreeing with Professor Dawkins
I have long disagreed with Prof. Richard Dawkins’ view on religion. I have no problem whatsoever with Prof. Dawkins’ expressing his personal views on any given topic. I am not even offended by such a public figure using celebrity to influence others – the Catholic Church, for one, has done no less for centuries. I…
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Abstractions
Stating the obvious, we live in a world striving, against all reasonableness, to be liberal. The form this liberalism seems to be taking manifests in the foolish attempt to avoid any and all offense. It should be obvious that this effort is nonsensical as there is no possible chance of not causing offense if we…
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Palestinian Doom
According to annefrank.org, one mustn’t liken “what Israel is doing to the Palestinians” with the “systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazis”. Such a comparison is “not only inappropriate, it is also wrong and offensive”. Well, golly gee, we wouldn’t want to offend a state engaged in genocide by implying their strategy is just not…
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Carbon Footprints
According to an online calculator, my carbon footprint is 3.83. Which, apparently, makes me and the average person from Turkey quite a bit less than almost everyone else – except the average Thai. Those Californians should be ashamed of themselves! 22.5! What are they doing? Smoking the stuff? But, of course, shame is the whole…
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Abandoned Development
The COVID lockdowns have caused an increase in mental health issues in young people. Or is it social media that is responsible? Maybe it’s a lack of broccoli in their diets! There seems little doubt that young people are showing a greater propensity towards mental ill-health. This is good for those whose job it is…
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The Essential Question
Justifiably, the Women’s Movement has fought long and hard for what, in reality, they should never have had to fight for. It must be galling to any woman who considers what they have had to earn over the past couple hundred years – not least for the strange ideas they have had to believe about…
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Meta Matters
The project of modernity is over and the metanarratives have been shuffled out the door, which was promptly slammed shut behind them. In the postmodern world, there’s no need for those ideas which seek to impose from above dictates that limit, enclose and restrict. Now is the time of freedom, self-expression and individuality. Even those…
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