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Princeton philosopher Peter Singer cites Greene's work in arguing that we should re-examine our moral intuitions and ask not just whether these impulses still serve their original evolutionary logic, but whether that logic merits respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve what Richard Dawkins calls the "selfish gene"--such as sympathy that gravitates toward kin and friends? Why not worry more about people an ocean away whose suffering we could cheaply alleviate? Isn't it better to save 10 starving African babies than to keep your 90-year-old father on life...
...alone their proximity to them. For instance, the Radcliffe Child Care Center below the DeWolfe apartments affects students in Lowell House. All in all, 10 of the 12 houses fall fully or partially within school zones. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the law’s underlying logic, which considers giving minors access to controlled substances a higher crime than simply possessing drugs. The law was sold to the public and the legislature in 1989 by then-Governor Michael Dukakis on the idea that it would punish those who would put drugs into children’s hands. Similar...
...natural process by which the body stops growing. Parents who give their short children growth hormones do so for social more than medical reasons, he notes. How can it be O.K. to make someone "unnaturally" taller but not smaller? To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way. "The argument that a beneficial treatment should not be used because it might be misused is itself a slippery slope," he says. "If we did not use therapies available because they could be misused, we'd be practicing very little medicine...
Trying to distill this logic into a prediction of who'll win in Melbourne is always fraught, though perhaps less so in this era of Roger Federer, who's so far ahead of the rest in the ATP points race that in February he's certain to break Jimmy Connors' record for most consecutive weeks at No. 1 (160). Here are the 10 key questions - and our best answers ? about the Open fortnight, beginning...
...just accelerates a natural process by which the body stops growing. Parents of short children give them growth hormones for social more than medical reasons, he notes. How can it be O.K. to make someone "unnaturally" taller but not smaller? To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way: "The argument that a beneficial treatment should not be used because it might be misused is itself a slippery slope," he says. "If we did not use therapies available because they could be misused, we'd be practicing very little medicine...