User SelfMadeSoul

According to a panel at SETICon 2012, the designs for multi-generational space ships are already in the works. However are there ethical problems with people bearing children who will never see Earth, and likely never set foot on a planet? Would...

When is it moral to take the law into your own hands -- meaning pursuing, detaining, and/or punishing criminals as a private citizen? Suppose that you know -- without a shadow of a doubt -- that some person committed a serious crime against you...

While having a zestful online debate, someone claimed that Ayn Rand contradicts herself in claiming that public nudity should be censored. (See "Thought Control" in the Ayn Rand Letter.) Since sex is a beautiful act, why should people be...

While laws restricting immigration seem terribly irrational -- both in terms of intent and effects -- they are still technically the law. Illegal immigrants often make themselves available for day-to-day work, and hiring them for a day has an...