Last login: 46 hours agoKevinjjones
Kevin is a 29 year old single guy from Arvada, Colorado, USA.
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Member since Oct 17, 2006
Catholic classicist, gentleman of leisure, crackpot

I made a tool for intermediate language students, especially Latinists, at semi-fluent.com. I discovered StumbleUpon when I saw loads of welcome traffic in my site logs.

I also have a more substantive blog at blogspot called Philokalia Republic.

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When a chimp is more than just a chimp & Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler
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From the page: "The idea that mere â€oesqueamishness and unease” canâ€t provide sufficient justification for an ethical objection - as opposed, say, to the much more reasonable one that we ought to be careful, and sufficiently self-critical, when we ground our ethics in this sort of way - is spectacularly implausible, and itâ€s a paradigmatic instance of the kind of hyper-rationalistic thinking that we - philosophers, scientists, politicians, everyone - need to work to get beyond."


"And while I don't mean to minimize the seriousness of the problems that arise when disagreement is present, the fact is that in this particular situation there's just about no one, except for the scientists who stand to profit from it and of course the libertarians, who actually thinks that the creation of humanzees would be a good thing."



"it's a mistake to think that the right way to mitigate these problems is to turn to a philosopher, as opposed to a person or group of persons with an ordinary, uncorrupted moral sensibility, to determine whether the course of action in question is right or wrong. Even where "principles" are lacking, moral unease can do just fine."

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