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Assisted suicide: competing visions of human dignity?

February 1, 2010

Euthanasia in the form of assisted suicide is in the news again. Today’s story is Terry Pratchett’s Dimbleby lecture, and a Panorama documentary.
Six months ago, I asked in a fairly lengthy post, whether there were any compelling arguments against assisted suicide which did not depend on an underlying Christian (or other theological) understanding of human [...]

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Agnosticism and GPS

August 9, 2009

There’s a fascinating post from humanist (and agnostic) philosopher Mark Vernon on his hatred of TomTom (and by implication other GPS navigation systems). I can’t make up my mind whether this is simply technophobic or quite profound.
In my limited experience, GPS doesn’t work like this. But is purpose and direction really opposed to enjoying the [...]

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Assisted suicide: blowing raspberries at God?

August 3, 2009

Last week the UK saw the latest in an occasional sequence of euthanasia activists pushing at the boundaries of the law. One Debbie Purdy – suffering from MS – believes that there is a time when she will hold that her life has become intolerable, and wants her husband to be able to help her [...]

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I am a humanist and I object …

June 25, 2009

… to any and every attempt simply and solely to equate humanism with atheism. I can entirely understand (and disagree) with atheists and agnostics who want to claim the name “humanist’ for a God-free world as a positive description of their views. I cannot understand why so many of my fellow-Christians (to say nothing of [...]

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