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April 11, 2005

Around the Blogosphere

Stuff you should be reading and to which you should be reacting. You know, if that's your bag, baby. Excerpts, conveniently designed to provoke you into clicking through, included at no extra charge.

• Where Else But the Brain?

  A brain-based ethics is, in fact, ideally suited to the fuzzy conception of human life that Sullivan is advocating: a person is human inasmuch as the higher cognitive functions supported by her cerebral cortex are intact.

• A Culture of the Good Life

  One question that the phrase the "culture of life" raises for me, then, is a question that most people apparently assume is self-evident: "What do you mean by life?"

• The Reality Impaired

  This just goes against common sense. Deafness is not a way of life. It’s a significant disability. Sign language is something that was created to work around the problem. The outrage against cochler implants, and against schools for the deaf creating separate classes geared to children who have them, strikes me as absolute insanity.

If there are any controversial debates going out there that I should know about, drop them in the comments. No, the evolution vs. creationism debate is not controversial - no more than shooting fish in a barrel is sporting (fun, yes, but not sporting).