All living humans are descendants of the same ancestors and thus entitled to partake in the earliest possible claim of ownership. Consequently, the argument of original ownership is at best moot, trivially applicable to all of humanity and in relation to every place. Rather than division, let reason unite us

Should the Voice win tomorrow, the implication will be that recognition of a separate, racially homogenous nation enables indirect discrimination against those of other races by designating them as 'foreign' nationals. The Voice may therefore be be seen as a covert circumvention of the prohibition on racial discrimination and exclusion under the guise of nationality

Western rationalism and humanism democratised the Enlightenment, making it accessible to all rational beings on the condition of systematic understanding, making human action more rational and rationally ethical. Its perfect application is limited only by our individual imperfections

If it is right to kill a human in the foetal stage for any reason whatsoever, then why would it not be right to kill an adult human for any reason whatsoever if there is no objective point of transition from the moral status of one to the moral status of the other?

Cheerleaders for renewable energy's rent-seekers are an incurious lot. When Beijing claims to be all for solar panels and wind turbines, they stamp their feet and hoot with unquestioning glee. A closer look makes it apparent the Middle Kingdom is playing the West on a break

Why would an American professor of psychology imagine she was once nearly raped by a handsome young man? Extensive research in her own field shows such a fantasy comes with her feminist territory

Subjectivist determination of right and wrong is no longer subject to the norms of ration­ality, with tyranny a perfectly consistent outcome if the objective norms are rejected. Power becomes the ultimate virtue, a moral obligation to dominate its compulsion and credo

SSM proponents paint 'traditional' marriage as increasingly dysfunctional, so why not endorse a distorted facsimile of those allegedly troubled heterosexual unions? This neatly ignores the traditional family's need for more protection by the state and society