Going along to get along

One is often asked to assent to nonsense. Here are two examples.
The first is a personal experience. A woman at a party told me that she had recently given up her dog to an animal shelter. I am very fond of dogs, and could not imagine what dire circumstance brought her to such an act. [...]

That Magic Moment

Proponents of abortion and euthanasia assure us that they do not propose to kill human beings. The fetus is not yet human. The patient in a vegetative state is no longer human.
What it is that defines humanity? A criterion frequently trotted out is brain function. Here’s how A Reasonable Man explains it:
But, it seems to [...]