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The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression—the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons th...

T he abortion issue has become volatile. Violence against abortion clinics to stop or interfere with abortions has been reported with some prominence in the press.''' This violence has included fire-bombing, throwing gasoline and other flammable liquids on clinic staff—one staff member was temporarily blinded—vandalism, including slashing of phone lines and upholstery and destruction of operati...

Three experiments investigated the mental representation of meaningful event sequences. Experiment 1 used extended (5 min long) naturalistic scenes excerpted from commercial movies. Experiments 2 and 3 presented everyday activities by means of sequences of six photographs. All experiments found both left-right and distance effects in an order decision task, suggesting that when contemplated in ...

In animal ethics a Right to Life has been postulated repeatedly, but no valid argument has been produced yet. Thus the question of a Right to Life in animal ethics remains unanswered. It is remarkable that no philosopher has yet found a valid argument against Epicurus (there is nothing fearful in the absence of life). On the other hand, there is, again based upon Epicurus' argument, a basic mor...