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 | 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 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...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 22, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
When you hear the sentiment “thou shalt not be a white supremacist”—it’ll be dressed up a bit, but that’s the meaning—you can rest assured that the moral absolute being expressed here isn’t really about white supremacy. Sometimes it amounts to a form of relativism...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
For many years, relativism was the craze in apologetic circles. It was a primary target for apologists because it was part of the modern cultural landscape. “You have your truth, I have mine” was the catchphrase. Some have suggested that relativism is long gone. David...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 8, 2021 | Articles, General Ethics
There are many reasons why people detest organized religion. It might be because it leads to violence. Or perhaps they think organized religion requires blind faith. For Allen Clifton, a self-described liberal Christian and co-founder of Forward Progressives, it’s...
