More and more of our life is determined by algorithms. These algorithms tend to be based more and more on artificial intelligence. A recent Wired piece asked about how these affect our understanding of free will. Let’s look at these […]
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Autonomous Warfare is Here
Back in September, I wrote a piece called, “Only 1 Step from Autonomous Warfare.” It was a moral analysis of a semi-autonomous killing of a top Iranian scientist. That semi-autonomous weapon system used facial recognition. Since then, I’ve found out […]
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Covaxin: A Vaccine We Can All Get Behind
For the last year, the main two COVID vaccines in the USA have been Pfizer and Moderna. Now, Bharat Biotech and Ocugen have applied for approval of their Covaxin vaccine by the FDA. Covaxin got emergency use authorization from the […]
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Aquinas: Some Sins Worse Than Sexual Sins (Updated)
This week, Pope Francis noted that sexual sins or sins of the flesh are not the worst kind of sins during an interview on a plane. There have been three mistaken reactions to this. First, many secular sources assumed he […]
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Fetal Cell Lines ≠ Aborted Baby Parts
I wrote a post over on Patheos In the discussion around vaccines tested on fetal cell lines there is what appears to be a small matter of terminology but actually points to a significant difference both ontologically and morally. This […]
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Fetal Cell Line Testing & Church Teaching
Despite claims to the contrary from some circles, the Church has never taught that medicine being tested on fetal cell lines is a significant enough moral issue to skip that medicine. I wrote this up in a semi-academic piece that […]
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A Timeline Those Now Critiquing My HEK293 Post Miss
A post from my blog: I think a little timeline is helpful to understand how my post on how almost every medicine was tested on HEK-293 changed the argument. You can’t argue that based on your standard now, the standard I applied […]
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Lying About Vaccines Is Sinful
A post from my blog on Patheos. Last year, I wrote a piece on lying to avoid mask mandates. I think it applies to two situations about vaccines. It is immoral to create fake vaccine cards and it is immoral […]
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Missing the Point about Remote Cooperation / Appropriation
I posted this over on Patheos. My piece from January, If Any Drug Tested on HEK-293 Is Immoral, Goodbye Modern Medicine, continues to be widely viewed, averaging over 1000 views a day in the past month. This has lead to several people […]
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Bridgeport: The Best Vaccine Mandate Instruction Yet
On Patheos, I noted this diocese did a good job. Various dioceses have issued statements about vaccine mandates that seem contradictory. I think many of the others have missed one side or the other of a two-part reality. First, the […]
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