by Karlo Broussard | Nov 15, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
It’s immoral to kill an innocent human being. That’s because we all have a “right to life”—a moral claim on one another not to be killed. But some might say that this approach creates a conflict with our general intuitions about justified lethal self-defense. Does the...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 28, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
Recently, I attended a city council meeting in Temecula, California, to hear what people had to say concerning a proposed resolution to make Temecula a sanctuary city for the unborn and for the city council to, as a unified group, oppose Proposition 1, which, among...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 3, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
When it comes to the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura (Latin, “scripture alone”), Catholics have some popular rejoinders. One of the most popular is captured in the phrase, “Where’s that in the Bible?” The idea here is this: for a Protestant, Scripture alone...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 16, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
“Thou shalt not kill the innocent.” Everyone accepts that, right? Think again. Fifty years ago, Judith Jarvis Thomson didn’t buy it. In her 1971 paper, “A Defense of Abortion,” she explicitly denied the idea that “directly killing an innocent person is always and...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Protestant apologists often argue against the papacy along the following line: if Peter were the first pope, as Catholics say he was, then we’d expect to find the New Testament mention such a Petrine office when it would have been pertinent to do so. Since we don’t...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 6, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
It’s often argued that sexual activity with a member of the same sex is immoral because it’s a disordered act, or a perversion of the sexual faculty. The idea here is that moral disorder enters human acts when we willfully direct some faculty or power away from its...
