We need to distinguish between religious and conscience exceptions. They have been confused in the debate about exemptions from vaccine requirements. I think even a brief examination would find this equivocation faulty. This argument is that due to Catholic teaching […]
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Top 10 Posts of 2021
Here are the top-10 most viewed posts I wrote in 2021. There seem to be a lot of posts on vaccines, with posts on Pope Francis coming in second. A few are completely unrelated to those two themes like the […]
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Why Can Verizon Compromise Your Privacy Without Consent?
Privacy is a moral issue. Verizon seems to be doing something that lacks respect for this moral issue. There are times we might exchange some lack of privacy for some other good. Like we exchange Google tracking for having a […]
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AI Algorithms & Free Will (Moral Analysis)
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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