Melanie Reid on Assisted Dying

Melanie Reid has written a clear-sighted 'view from the wheelchair' on assisted dying, prompted by yesterday's commons debate on the DPP guidelines on assisted dying (MPs supported the guidelines, though no change to law was supported). Because it's behind The Times paywall, but is very good, I make no apologies for reproducing it...

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Mock the Meek

Someone called Barbara King interviewed Richard Dawkins on NPR, with a clear anti-ridicule agenda. She is concerned about the feelings of the faithful, I presume, and she thinks Richard's famed 'stridency' is counter-productive in any dialogue with them.  This common refrain from some non-believers (as we've seen from Julian...

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A Pitcher of Sneer

Pitcher - he's the one on the left Eric MacDonald has posted a piece entitled The Emptiness of George Pitcher, pointing out the vacuity of Pitcher's slippery slope argument against assisted dying. There is simply no logical connexion between my conviction that my life is intolerable in my condition, and the claim that anyone else in a...

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The Evil God Challenge

Stephen Law's Evil God Challenge (EGC) is quite simple, and complex, at the same time (like some god concepts!). There have been many objections raised against it, but I think they mostly miss the very simple crux, which is, I think: If they did not rule out an evil god for some other reason, do believers think that the evidence supports...

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