The typical complaint against the death penalty is that there’s no prospect of correcting miscarriages of justice after sentencing. Seems to me the death penalty is playing at the edges compared with… (View Post)

On Iran. Surely the more likely precedent here is neither Iraq nor Cambodia. But Libya. It would not be great for anyone in Europe wanting less immigration. Or China, which relies upon its stable oil… (View Post)

See the charts here under Statistics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_Kingdom Notwithstanding universal sex education, there is of course a double digit number of types of cont… (View Post)

The views on this seem so extraordinarily entrenched I’ve concluded it’s not worth the bother. There is a subset of our society that refuses to believe an unborn baby has any rights whatsoever no mat… (View Post)

I agree with every word of this. It’s a gut punch to my apparently flawed understanding of what sort of society we are. And I suspect it’s going to end a friendship or two of mine. Given one friend v… (View Post)