In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs, those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument; a socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their own bodies. As John Stuart Mill put it in his […]
Entries Tagged as 'Consenting Adults'
Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm
August 6th, 2011 85 Comments
Tags: Consenting Adults · Contra Mundum · Harm Principle · Investigate Magazine · Irving Kristol · Jan Arneson · Joel Feinberg · John Stuart Mill
The Theology of the Declaration of Independence
July 4th, 2010 27 Comments
As I write this it is just beginning to be the 4th of July in the United States now, though its been 4th July for some time here in New Zealand. The 4th of July is, of course, Independence Day. Typically in New Zealand, those members of the secular blogosphere, who consider themselves to be […]
Tags: Bill Vallicella · Classical Liberalism · Consenting Adults · David Farrar · Declaration of Independence · Divine Command Theory · Faith and Reason · Liberty · Peter Cresswell · Religion in Public Life · Religious History
Craig Young on “Bare Backing”
August 21st, 2007 Comments Off on Craig Young on “Bare Backing”
Craig Young is shocked by statistics about “bare backing” being prevalent in the Gay community. Bare backing in case you don’t know is the name Craig gives to un-protected anal sex. Young is shocked because it suggests there exists a “parallel world where Paul Cameron tells the truth.” To understand this you need to understand […]
Tags: Consenting Adults · Craig Young · Ethics · Homosexual Conduct
Against Liberal Morality
August 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Against Liberal Morality
In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs. Those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument. A socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their bodies. As Mill put it, The only part of the […]
Tags: Consenting Adults · Ethics · Joel Feinberg · John Stuart Mill · Libertarianism · Liberty
Some Questions for Dr. Michael Cullen
July 27th, 2007 5 Comments
I saw Dr. Michael Cullen speaking in on TV3 last night. What he said was interesting because it highlights a tension I have often noted in liberal views of sexual morality . The issue was as follows: A school had hired a teacher. This teacher however had advertised on an internet adult site for a […]
Tags: Consenting Adults · Homosexual Conduct · Michael Cullen · Sexual Morality
An Argument for Gay Marriage
December 14th, 2006 Comments Off on An Argument for Gay Marriage
[1] Justice requires that all people be treated equally by the state.
[2] Homosexuals are people.
[3] The marriage act does not treat homosexuals
equally to heterosexuals unless it is amended to allow for Gay marriage,
Therefore
[4] Justice requires that the marriage act should be amended to allow for Gay
marriage.
Tags: Consenting Adults · Homosexual Conduct · Role of the State · Sexual Morality
Consenting Adults and Privacy
December 1st, 2006 2 Comments
Now I ask you, if the Minister of CYFS had done what Miewes did would that call into question his fitness to be in office? If you answer yes then clearly you do not actually believe that what consenting adults do in privacy with others who have consented is actually the be all and end all in sexual morality. Nor do you believe that what people do in private is irrelevent to the public.
Tags: Cannibalism · Consenting Adults · David Benson Pope · Investigate Magazine · Sexual Morality
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
