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Thoughts

On Aquinas and Puberty Blockers

BY SEAN WALSH Why are “puberty blockers” morally obscene? Aquinas would have the answer. We need to remind ourselves that the potential is as real as the actual. I’m not going to waste much time defending the self-evident truth that it is obscene to perform medical experiments on children. I mean no disrespect to the eugenicists who think otherwise, but these people are in need … Continue reading On Aquinas and Puberty Blockers

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War

Israel’s Just War?

BY DANIEL JUPP Thinking about what constitutes and doesn’t constitute a just war is in fact a very old process. The Egyptians did it, as did the Ancient Greeks and the Romans. We have surviving Egyptian inscriptions telling us why particular Pharaohs were justified in their conquests, and these told us three things. A Pharaoh was allowed to conquer because he was a legitimate authority, … Continue reading Israel’s Just War?

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