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		<title>Loyalty Is Not a Virtue</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/06/loyalty-is-not-a-virtue/2238/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of loyalty came up over at a recent Bloggernacle Times thread. Jacob J stirred the pot a little by saying the following: I think loyalty is vastly overrated. In all the cases when loyalty is cited as the motivation for virtuous behavior that same behavior could/should have been motivated by a less problematic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Grandparents and Dying</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2009/09/of-grandparents-and-dying/1373/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2009/09/of-grandparents-and-dying/1373/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of my wife and my five remaining grandparents, four of them are nearing the end. One lost the will to live when her husband died five or six(?) years ago and as far as I can tell has been trying to die since then. That&#8217;s not to say she&#8217;s attempting to commit suicide, but she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worldviews</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2009/02/worldviews/812/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent (MC)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Kent White Mormonism offers a worldview which gives meaning and purpose to my life. I love the gospel I find in the Mormon scriptures and I believe that the way I understand that good news has led me to choose two basic axioms which filter my interpretations of my experiences and desires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Morality of Gynecology (a poll).</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2009/01/the-morality-of-gynecology-a-poll/772/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2009/01/the-morality-of-gynecology-a-poll/772/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you choose the first answer, please use the comments section to tell us how you fill in the blank.]]></description>
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		<title>Forbidding Badness = Coercing Goodness</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/10/forbidding-bad-compelling-good/571/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/10/forbidding-bad-compelling-good/571/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon Culture/Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post I pointed out that our scriptures unequivocally command us to &#8220;spread the wealth&#8221;. That commandment is an undeniable fact when it comes to us as individuals. The question is whether government programs designed to spread the wealth are a good idea or not. I don&#8217;t claim to have the definitive answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much evil is okay?</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/06/how-much-evil-is-okay/528/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/06/how-much-evil-is-okay/528/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s assume for the sake of this post that God exists and that he&#8217;s good. In this context, the problem of evil starts to look rather like our complaining about how God does his job. This got me to thinking: Just what do you think God should be doing? Specifically. Obviously the answer will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euth in Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/09/euth-in-asia/449/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only do I think euthanasia should be decriminalized on libertarian grounds, but I personally donâ€™t consider euthanasia to be immoral in all situations. There are several angles from which this issue is debated, but the ones I am most interested about here are the religious and moral angles. Opponents of euthanasia often cite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A moral dilemma to disprove consequentialism</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/02/a-moral-dilemma-to-disprove-consequentialism/329/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/02/a-moral-dilemma-to-disprove-consequentialism/329/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find that many moral dilemmas concocted to show the problems of consequentialism assume the moral reality to be more obvious than it is. In considering moral dilemmas, I often find it useful to imagine how I would react if I learned that God had done the thing being described as immoral. The reason this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on ethics (from a layman)</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/01/thoughts-on-ethics-from-a-layman/327/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2007/01/thoughts-on-ethics-from-a-layman/327/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My entire approach to ethics relies upon a distinction between the morality of an agent and the morality of an action. This is not a ground breaking distinction to make, but I have to start small. 1. The morality of people is different than the morality of events. There is something very different about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Would Torture Saddam Hussein</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2006/07/torturing-saddam/273/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2006/07/torturing-saddam/273/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atonement &#038; Soteriology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people do unimaginable things to other people. When I hear of a horrific crime against an innocent child, my first reaction is sadness. The nightly news makes me cry routinely. My second reaction is anger. My sense of justice cries out for retribution on the criminal. Saddam Hussein provides a good example because his [...]]]></description>
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