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Disasters bring out best and worse
An engineering company that makes equipment for army vehicles is ransacked. Two men are disturbed breaking into a convenience store. Three people are...
A Tale of Two Moralities
On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to “expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our...
How to ask awkward questions and annoy people
In his endless pursuit of Truth, Socrates made many enemies. Yet his questioning outlook remains invaluable to understanding the present. Diogenes...
Young Americans look to Jon Stewart for news
With his 'rally to restore sanity', Jon Stewart has become the figurehead for American liberalism – not bad for a comedy show host. One does...
We must stop saying ‘The science demands ...’
Top climate-change expert Mike Hulme tells spiked it is a scandal that scientific claims are increasingly usurping politics and morality. ...
Lives can be saved when you preach love
In many countries, despite the knowledge science now affords us about human sexuality, irrational hatred of sexual minorities is encouraged - even...
Imagine if Australian women were flogged for drinking a beer
If my women friends lived in Malaysia, and we happened to be Muslim, we'd – with a few exceptions – be badly battered and bruised. Our...
Survivors know best: Torture is always wrong
It’s immoral and it doesn’t make anyone more secure. Just ask those who’ve been tortured. They live invisibly among us, 41,000 in...
Virginity is one hell of a gift
Virginity is not a ''gift''. To suggest it is, as Tony Abbott has, is absurdly childish. It's also ridiculously romantic. None of which would matter...
Creators of beauty are capable of ugliness
Creating beauty does not make you immune to committing ugly acts, just ask filmmaker Roman Polanski. Should artistic talent place those who possess...
New morality is a steal
In 1631, England's royal printers reprinted the Bible but somehow omitted the ''not'' in Exodus 20:14, the seventh commandment concerning adultery....
Abortion: the freedom to make tough choices
The anti-choice lobby’s claim that abortions always impact on women’s mental health is moralism masquerading as science. A recent...
A Tiger Woods lesson for the public: Infidelity hurts
The moral of the Tiger Woods story is that adultery leaves a trail of destruction. It can be avoided. The cascade of news about Tiger Woods since his...
When the moral argument went mainstream
Slowly, carefully, the Reverend Tofiga Falani, from the tiny nation of Tuvalu, walked down the long aisle of the Copenhagen Cathedral, holding in his...
Recycling: an eco-ritual we should bin
Reprocessing waste might one day be cost-effective, but for now it's a moralistic reminder that humans are greedy. Maybe there’s a shortage of...
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