“Just war tradition says we should act on a just cause, like preventing future wrongs, punishing wrongdoers, and stopping ongoing wrongdoing. Self-defense, of course, fits that category. But so does this effort towards justice. And it should happen with ‘right intention.’” - Breakpoint
(More at Bonus: Iran and Just War)
“As much as I rarely speak about current events and politics…there are also those moments where your conscience just compels you to speak up, as is the case for me now, because I’m concerned that we’re crossing a line here that is both dangerous and immoral.” - Truth Unites
“Sam Harris and Ross Douath recently discussed religion and I want to address three questions that came up about how religion and morality relate to each other. First, has religion contributed to moral progress?” - Truth Unites
“In today’s segment, Dr. Wunsch discusses a paper he recently wrote that challenges both techno-optimism and doomsday narratives, arguing that the greatest dangers of AI arise not from autonomous machines, but from human misuse, poor policy and concentrated power.” - Mind Matters
“Following the release of ‘Wicked: For Good,’ many people have reacted to the film’s spiritual and allegorical elements and what it says about friendships, morality and the idea of good versus evil.” - CPost
“The moral views of Americans are not static, however. Many have shifted over the more than 20 years Gallup has conducted this poll. Mostly, Americans have grown more permissive.” - Baptist Press
“I also understand that a not insignificant number of Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, wise, and discerning Christians are in favor of capital punishment…. I’m just not sure that a pro-capital punishment reading of Scripture is the only faithful reading—or even the most faithful reading.” - Dale Chamberlain
“knee-jerk censoriousness rooted in politics is not the same as honest grappling by the thoughtful reader, viewer, or listener. Every conscientious person must consider these kinds of questions at some point. I think, for example, of my beloved Charles Dickens” - The Dispatch
Review: ‘Reformed Social Ethics’ by Herman Bavinck… “Though technology and circumstances have changed since Bavinck wrote, he was wrestling with many of the same basic questions that drive today’s political discourse.” - TGC
“What Harari missed was that if humanity has no purpose and, as he put it ‘nothing that exists is unnatural,’ why would prejudice or persecution be wrong when sexual deviancy is not?…By removing the very concept of evil, Harari has no way to call anything evil.” - Breakpoint
