Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
The decline of civilization, in one simple chart | VirtuousPla.net
Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
The decline of civilization, in one simple chart | VirtuousPla.net
The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Hi Tim...
ReplyDeleteA couple of thoughts:
The biggest felons when it come to overusing the word "values" is the religious right. "Family values" being code for "fag hating christians". So yeah...if the author is implying that the rise of the intolerant religious right is a sign of societal collapse - I guess I could go along with that thought.
In any case, the premise of the article is nuts. One can find any pair of inversely related factors and ascribe some causal link to them. This is just personal opinion dressed up as science.
Cheers...Martin
Martin: I think you're probably correct. It is indicative though of how something can be dressed up as being 'scientific' or 'objective' while failing to meet the requirements of either.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether I should be reassured that such an argument is so easy to see as being flawed or alarmed that science can so easily be misused in this manner. How many folks would fail to hear alarm bells in their heads when they read such a study? You and I do so because of our appreciation of the role of human rights and the instruments of polity to determine the proper balances between 'values' and 'virtues'. Would there be many who would be swayed by such a chimera masquerading as being representative of the truth?
Kind of scary, irrespective of one's position on the God Question, if the citizenry were not capable of seeing through such a logically flawed study.
Tim
Who needs a chart to see the decline of virtue. Just look at the cesspool popular culture has become. Virtue has been replaced by narcissism.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Paul