To Treat Others Ethically Is To Act

Of Course, The Liar Often Imagines That He Does No Harm As Long As His Lies Go Undetected.

We Read The Golden Rule And Judge It To Be A Brilliant Distillation Of Many Of Our Ethical Impulses. And Then We Come Across Another Of God’s Teachings On Morality: If A Man Discovers On His Wedding Night That His Bride Is Not A Virgin, He Must Stone Her To Death On Her Father’s Doorstep (deuteronomy 22:13-21).

There Is No Reason Whatsoever To Think That Buddhism Can Compete Successfully With The Relentless Evangelizing Of Christianity And Islam. Nor Should It Try To.

I Am One Of The Few People I Know Of Who Has Argued In Print That Torture May Be An Ethical Necessity In Our War On Terror.

Death Is, In Some Ways, Unacceptable. It's Just An Astonishing Fact Of Our Being Here That We Die; But I Think Worse Than That Is If We Live Long Enough, We Lose Everyone We Love In This World. I Mean People Die And Disappear, And We're Left With This Stark Mystery: Just The Sheer Not Knowing Of What Happened To Them.