There are such things as objective moral truths. For anyone who disagrees:
By: Barry Belmont
By: Keegan Idler
28Jun10
A Difference of Ethical Systems
By: Barry Belmont
I had a teacher today claim, with a straight face, that there is no such thing as right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
- She purported that there is no significant difference in the overall well-being of people in Sweden as opposed to those of Rwanda.
- She claimed that a suicide bomber is morally on par with a doctor who gives regularly to charities.
- She said Jeffrey Dahmer and the Dalai Lama have the same ethical merit.
- She actually believes that a precept like “do not rape children” is culturally specific and cannot legitimately be claimed as a universally correct moral opinion.
- She feels men should be allowed to treat women like property if they are in the right part of the globe.
I have never been more disgusted by the pseudo-intellectual tradition of relativism.
18Jun10
Fifty Years of Peace: 1958-2008
By: Barry Belmont
18Jun10
The Bullshit of Fast Food
By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
12Jun10
Information: Property
By: Barry Belmont
If you don’t follow Abstruse Goose, you should.
11Jun10
We Are Finalists on Cop Block!
By: John Russell
Nate and I entered Cop Block’s Friday’s Finest competition where we go and video tape police activity. Our efforts last weekend yielded us a finalist in the $250 competition. We are planning on doing this every weekend. Tonight Nate and I will be roaming the strip area of Reno again, but this time we are going to have the knowledge center’s $5,000 HD camcorder and I will be open carrying. Check out our submitted video below, and don’t forget to check out Cop Block at http://copblock.org. If any of you would like to join us, shoot me a line. It is a lot of fun!
By: Barry Belmont
I found this over at StopGeek and I gotta say it’s pretty convincing…
Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal
1.) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2.) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3.) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4.) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5.) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6.) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7.) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8.) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9.) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10.) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
By: Barry Belmont
