Month: June 2010
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Victory for Individual Rights!
by Jason Stotts The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) today handed down their judgment in the Macdonald v. Chicago case (08-1521). The Justices ruled 5-4 that the second amendment is incorporated against the states through the fourteenth amendment. I haven’t read the complete decision yet, since it is quite long and was only…
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Harrison Bergeron
by Jason Stotts I was recently sent a link to the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, about the ideal of “equality” and the practical implications of that. I strongly recommend taking a look at the story, which you can find here. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only…
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Iceland Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
by Jason Stotts Reuters is reporting that Iceland has passed Same-Sex Marriage in a unanimous vote. Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49…
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Is Love a Zero-Sum Game?
by Jason Stotts Many people tend to assume that love is a zero-sum game and I think that that’s an interesting assumption. In order to figure out if it’s true, let’s take a look at what it would mean and see if we can come to understand whether love is, in fact, a zero-sum game.…
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Formspring: Donations
by Jason Stotts Question: If a person is a laissez faire capitalist is it morally acceptable for that person to request or accept altruistic donations to maintain a business venture / lifestyle choice such as this website? Well, yes and no. The problem is that your question is loaded. Donations that were actually altruistic, where…
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Announcement
by Jason Stotts After much deliberation, I am officially changing the title of my book-in-progress on sexual ethics from Sexual Perfection: Foundations of a New Sexual Ethic to Eros and Ethos: The Ethics of Modern Sex.
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Voting
by Jason Stotts I voted in California today for the second time, the first being in the last election in the fall. Both times have been at a local church, which is gracious enough (I’m being ironic) to host the voting. The problem with having voting in a church is that you end up with…
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Interracial Marriage at All Time High
by Jason Stotts CNN is reporting that interracial marriage has hit an all time high and that today roughly 1 out of 7 marriages are interracial. Apparently, race is mattering less these days, say researchers at the Pew Research Center, who report that nearly one out of seven new marriages in the U.S. is interracial or…