Endangering Religious Liberty

Church-State Separation, Healthcare Policy, and Religious Liberty

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

Does Oppressed Religious Liberty Cause an Uprising in Terror Attacks?

The political community’s research comes across as inconclusive in regard to the relationship between liberty and terrorism, given the differing opinions on what defines ‘liberty’ and ‘terrorism.’ Most research up to 2016 has been done on terrorist data after 2001 and until 2010 (in some cases 2012). My research expands to the year 2014 to analyze the connection between religious oppression by ...

After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?

Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys' right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys (due to substantial loss of highly erogenous tissue) have not yet been suffic...

Endangering the economics of extinction

he core of the broad field of economics considers how to allocate society’s scarce resources among unlimited desires. In systems where choices are impersonal, have an impact isolated to a point in time, and require little to no ethical dilemma, traditional economics and market prices are well suited to inform the best (or optimal) choices. Many choices made in well-defined goods and services ma...

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