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Archive for October, 2009
Obama Administration Supports UN Exceptions To Free Speech Protections In Cases Of Religious Speech
October 19th, 2009 
Daniel Fincke Upsetting: Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to [...]
Philosophical Ethics: Rawls’s Maximin Principle
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Civil Rights, Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Law, Law & Politics, Morality, News Discussion, Philosophical Ethics, Politics 
Tags: Capitalism, Communism, Distributive Justice, Economics, Egalitarianism, Fairness, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform Debate, John Rawls, Justice, Justice As Fairness, Maximin Principle, Political Philosophy, Social Justice, The Original Position, The Veil of Ignorance, Utilitarianism 
13 Comments »Photos In Honor Of World Animal Day (October 16)
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke See 40 more extraordinarily beautiful animal photos like this one. Photo: Reuters/Ina Fassbender.
Need A Handy Compendium Of Biblical Contradictions And Barbarisms?
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Howling Wolf has an extremely helpful post worth a bookmarking, a stumbleupon-ing, a Digg-ing, a Facebooking, etc. Always helpful to have resources with all the specifics. Your Thoughts?
Skeptical Blog Anthology Seeks More Submissions
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Young Australian Skeptics are seeking to print skeptical interweb postings into old fashioned dead tree format. Click here to nominate your favorite skeptical blog posts from all over the internet (including Camels With Hammers if you think we have one which qualifies, though I’m not a very good judge of that myself). Your Thoughts?
Philosophical Ethics: Can We Uphold A Moral Law And A Principle That We Should Break It?
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or a theme that dominated class discussion in a way that should be accessible to novices [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Applied Ethics, Civil Liberties, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Featured, Law, Law & Politics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Torture Tags: Chris Bodenner, Hard Truths, Hypocrisy, Lying, Matt Damon, Moral Dilemmas, Slavoj Zizek, Truth, Universalizability 10 Comments »Philosophical Ethics: Whether It’s Worth It To Be Just With No Incentives Or With Disincentives
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Before we get to the philosophy this time, let’s enjoy my favorite Flaming Lips song: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for the two Philosophical Ethics classes I am teaching this semester. Each of these posts will primarily explicate the reading or [...]
Posted in Contemporary Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Historical Ethics, Historical Philosophy, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Love, Morality, Music, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Plato Tags: "Bad Days", "Evil Will Prevail", "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", Competition Among Intrinsic Goods, Disincentives To Be Just, Flaming Lips, Glaucon, Incentives To Be Just, Injustice, Intrinsic Goodness, Joel Feinberg, Justice, Paradox of Hedonism, Self-Overcoming, Selfishness, Socrates, Value Judgments, Weighing Competing Goods No Comments »“There’s A Rep For That”
October 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Robtish has another great video, this one on the most offensive Republican Congresspeople and some of their most outrageous remarks and legislative proposals: Thanks again to Gaytheists. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Authoritarianism, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Law & Politics, Parody, Political Satire, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Videos Tags: Bill Sali, Demagoguery, domestic violence, Joe Wilson, John Shimkus, Louie Gohmert, Lynn Jenkins, Mark Kirk, Michelle Bachmann, Randy Forbes, Republican Congresspeople, Right Wing Extremism, Robtish, Steve Buyer, Steve King, Trent Franks, Virginia Foxx No Comments »Gay Marriage = Religious Freedom
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Another great video from before the inception of Camels With Hammers worth catching up on in case you missed it. This one is from robtish, who has other terrific videos on his youtube channel. It’s not just a cheerleading or general argument video but an in-depth information video with a bunch of important facts refuting some [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News Discussion, Politics, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Rights, Religious Secularism, Same Sex Marriage, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, Videos Tags: Adoption Services, Catholic Charities, Proposition 8, Robtish No Comments »The Real Thing
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke If I had my way, I’d spend every October weekend retreated to a beautiful autumnal countryside. Your Thoughts?
Scientists Pwn Those Lying About Their Work For Creationist Agendas
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers points us to two great letters from scientists to creationists distorting the meaning of their work. The idea that non-biologists commenting on the internet can feel entitled to go around calling legitimate biologists frauds is so stupefying to me. Do these people have no humility, no appreciation for the rigors of specialized scientific [...]
Posted in Biology, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design Tags: Joe Thornton, PZ Myers, Richard Lenski No Comments »Ig Nobel Prize Winning Research On Sword Swallowing And Its Side Effects
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Fascinating stuff: via True Slant There are 6 videos on Ig Nobel Prize winners on youtube from Submarine Channel. Your Thoughts?
Humanist Symposium #44
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Cubik’s Rube presents this month’s extraordinary array of impressive blog posts submitted for the Humanist Symposium with a good deal of style and engagement. I most recommend you check out the symposium and the blog’s featured therein.
Extrinsic Motivation A Poor Substitute For Intrinsic Motivation
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’ve always had a personal and philosophical aversion to motivation that is rooted in extrinsic rewards. I balk pretty heavily at the idea that moral actions can be motivated by the hope for rewards or the fear of punishment. I am Kantian to the extent that I am firmly convinced that however right one’s action [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Puppet Love
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So so creepy. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Love, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Everything Is Terrible, Puppets, Religious Kid Shows No Comments »Lisa Hannigan Interview and Live Performance
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Starting at 2 hour 26 minutes 55 seconds, an interview with (and live performance from!) the musically and personally utterly lovely Lisa Hannigan (whom I had the wonderful pleasure of seeing and meeting this summer) on Jonathan Ross’s show from October 17 found here. If you don’t know her yet, take fifteen minutes to get [...]
Happy Birthday Dave!!!
October 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Camels With Hammers‘s webmaster extraordinaire and occasional contributor, Dave Smith, turns 32 today. My previous forays into blogging were so fundamentally inhibited by my programming illiteracy that I can honestly say that this blog, in so many of its most successful features would simply not be possible without Dave’s volunteered efforts. He has really made [...]
Boehner’s Spokesman: Belonging To A Religion Is Not A Choice, Being Gay Is
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The shameless willingness to bullshit in the name of discrimination and special treatment makes the blood boil: You were born a Christian, not born gay. Religion is not a choice. Or so the spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would have you believe. Questioned about why the House’s top Republican opposes a hate [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Religious Rights Tags: John Boehner, Pam's House Blend No Comments »“So Slow You Can See The Bullet”
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke UltraSlo has the most amazing slow motion videos: Here is a slow motion of Ray Comfort’s hopes that the banana can prove there must be an intelligent designer being visually represented: Bee! The beautiful wasp: More Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Videos Tags: Bananas, Bees, Guns, Novelties, Slow Motion Photography, Wasps No Comments »Judge This: Target’s “Illegal Alien” Halloween Costume?
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in News Discussion Tags: Controversy, Halloween Costumes, Illegal Immigration, Novelties, Target No Comments »Geert Wilders Arrives In UK
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke The story: From Wilders’s press conference: Here was Pat Condell’s response last winter when the UK banned Wilders from visiting: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Islam, News, News Discussion, Religious Rights, Secularism, Videos, World Affairs Tags: Geert Wilders, United Kingdom No Comments »“Look Ma, No Hands!” The Amazing Armless Pilot
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This girl drives cars, flies planes, plays piano, is a black belt in Tae Kwon- Do, writes, and apparently does anything else she wants with no arms. So what’s your excuse for not doing whatever you most want to in life? Your Thoughts?
Enter Sandman On Kazoo
October 17th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Not much I can say about this one, it pretty much kazoos for itself:
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