Chris Dickey talks about “Christian Rage, Muslim Moderation” in a Newsweek column. While the title and lede are somewhat misleading, I think the overall point is one that needs to be hammered over and over again: No religion has a monopoly on extremists, ignorance, or blinders. Dr. Marranci gives a detailed example of the same idea at his blog.
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Very Inventive
How do you save 70,000 sheep from being exported for slaughter? Feed them pig! Read the following link from the Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/19/1069027168975.html
Interesting Petition to help end #torture
Lifted from comments about teaching Geneva Conventions in US schools.
Is Torture Utilitarian?
Glad other people are speaking up about the immorality of torture. As politicians argue, and our pragmatist-in-chief tries to find an angle, we can agree that not all moral dilemmas can be reduced to a cost-benefit analysis of pleasure and pain. There are some kinds of pain a morally serious person ought never to inflict. [From Is Torture Utilitarian?]