Category Archives: Morality

LQCs: Sincerity, Norway, the Moral Arc

Posted on 12 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

OnlySky, Hemant Mehta, 7 May 2022: The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously, subtitled, “Not every ‘sincerely held religious belief’ is sincerely held. The Supreme Court should admit that.”

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LQCs: The Arc of Historical Progress vs. Religious Oppression in the US

Posted on 10 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

First, my favorite print magazine The Week, for May 13th, in its “Viewpoint” box on the “Best Columns US” page, quotes Francis Fukuyama in The Wall Street Journal (a newspaper I don’t read). But unlike the similarly found David French … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Making Prohibitions vs. Solving Problems

Posted on 3 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Big news today is that a draft of a Supreme Court decision about abortion was leaked, by someone, and the draft indicates an intention to completely overturn Roe v. Wade. As everyone’s been expecting for some time now. The shock … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Moral Turpitude and Government Bureaucracy

Posted on 31 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

On Facebook today, the science fiction author David Brin posted an article from the UK paper Guardian (actually, from its US edition), with this comment: “For all their posturing about defending children from abuse, their record tells another story.” At … Continue reading →

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L&Cs: Making Things So, As Long as They’re Black or White

Posted on 26 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

There was an item, an opinion piece, in one of the online venues a few weeks ago, the link to which I didn’t capture at the time and could not find later. I didn’t even read the whole piece. But … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Conservative Values and Behaviors

Posted on 24 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Topics for today: conservative grievance and rage; Marriage Equality is the next conservative target; Christian behavior; religious tests; longing for a 12th century past. (I usually display an image from one of the items I post, but for today I’ll … Continue reading →

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Ls&Qs&Cs: Living in History, Alas

Posted on 25 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

We are now witnessing war in Europe, 60 years after World War II ended and the historians and prognosticators thought it would never happen again. But nothing, I think, will never happen again. There will always be despots and authoritarians … Continue reading →

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E.O. Wilson: THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH (2012)

Posted on 19 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

E.O. Wilson’s THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH, from 2012, is in my estimation one of the four most significant books by this scientist and writer. (The others are ON HUMAN NATURE, 1978; CONSILIENCE, 1998; and THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE, … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Some Things Never Change; Some That Do Go Unremembered

Posted on 17 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

How racism persists while changing its expression; how cherry-picking the Bible has been done for centuries; and how the seven-day week has only recently become the worldwide standard.

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Ls&Cs: You Suggest Having Ice Cream, They Hate Ice Cream

Posted on 14 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The principles of an angry 3-year-old; the anti-business party; Supreme Court justices’ motivations.

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