The Sterility of Fundamentalism

It’s really hard for me to talk about ‘gay stuff’. Be it the justification for homosexual behaviour in general, or issues like gay marriage. The discomfort I feel stems from the fact that I have a very conservative Christian and elitist upbringing, and so even though, I consider myself very liberal, I still find it [...]

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Debating Polygamy: A response

This is my response to Martha Nussbaum’s blog post titled “Debating Polygamy” on the University of Chicago Law School blog. Please check this post out yourself here. I agree pretty much with everything she says. I want to try to expand on a few things though. First, Nussbaum makes a very important point: polygamy is [...]

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The Ambiguity of the Human Condition

Let me start by saying that I do not know what is meant by the ‘ambiguity of the human condition’. I have reason to think, however, that it is something that one should at least think about. Simone de Beauvoir claims that at one point or another every human being will of necessity feel the [...]

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