Monday, July 25, 2011

The Maze of Moral Relativism

"There is no half-way house called 'moral relativism,' in which we continue to use normative vocabulary with the stipulation that it is to be understood as relativized to particular moral codes. If there are no absolute facts about morality, 'right' and 'wrong' would have to join 'witch' in the dustbin of failed concepts."

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Friday, July 22, 2011

You Hack, We Shoot

"Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have delivered a stark warning to the Pentagon: its failure to address key questions surrounding how the United States military would respond to a cyberattack – and what precisely constitutes an act of war in cyberspace, for that matter – remains a “significant gap” in US national security policy."

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