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2013-08-22T08:08:59-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #11

Last updated on: August 22, 2013 at 8:08 am By Leah Libresco

This is the eleventh and final entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory I feel that polyamorous dating is perfectly ethical; there’s nothing wrong with honest, respectful, and loving relationships, and I have seen no evidence that polyamorous relationships are any less likely to be honest, respectful, and loving. Nevertheless, I think that polygamous marriage probably shouldn’t be legal without... Read more

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2013-08-21T08:24:21-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #10

Last updated on: August 21, 2013 at 8:24 am By Leah Libresco

This is the tenth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory The actual question on civil marriage is if it should exist at all. Regardless of the answers we come up with, the need to debate which romantic and sexual arrangements should get the government stamp of approval is already a bad sign. Practically speaking, spousal benefits would be way... Read more

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2013-08-20T08:12:16-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #9

Last updated on: August 20, 2013 at 8:12 am By Leah Libresco

This is the ninth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory There are purely practical reasons why any scheme to recognise and give legal impact to polyamorous relationships should be considered very carefully. There are however no moral arguments against it with a general and secular force. As in my view any religion’s sacrament of marriage is entirely their business... Read more

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2013-08-19T07:44:29-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #8

Last updated on: August 19, 2013 at 7:44 am By Leah Libresco

This is the eighth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory This is an interesting prospect, and it appears to be a largely cultural phenomenon. For centuries, the basic familial unit has been bi-parental. This applies primarily in the West, however. Other cultures, such as Islam or certain sects of Hindu, practice polygyny or polyandry. Often it is one person... Read more

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2013-08-18T16:52:19-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #7

Last updated on: August 18, 2013 at 4:52 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the seventh entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory I’m going to be up-front here, and confess that I don’t really care about marriage. I mean, it’s great that people who are committed to each other have an outlet by which to express that, but the legal institution is (in America anyway) clearly just the last, mutated outgrowth... Read more

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2013-08-17T19:27:15-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #6

Last updated on: August 17, 2013 at 7:27 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the sixth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory The partnership aspect of a marriage becomes a case of shareholders with legally recognized polyamorous relationships. I’d have difficulty finding ground to ethically criticize 3 or 4 or 5 people having an equal stake in a shared life, however this does not seem to be how these arrangements turn... Read more

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2013-08-17T19:25:55-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #5

Last updated on: August 17, 2013 at 7:25 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the fifth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory As the world currently stands, I think limiting state-recognized marriage to two people might be reasonable, but on logistical grounds rather than those of justice or rights, and less so than is commonly thought. To elaborate, I’d like to make a distinction between state-sanctioned approval and the system of... Read more

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2013-08-15T11:27:38-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #4

Last updated on: August 15, 2013 at 11:27 am By Leah Libresco

This is the fourth entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory The morality of all relationships can be reduced to three notions: kindness, fairness and consent. When relationships exit morality, they violate these virtues: infidelity disrupts informed consent; abuse epitomizes the violation of kindness; control, by nature, eliminates equity. As such, the morality of any consensual, equal, benevolent union is... Read more

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2013-08-14T13:18:22-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #3

Last updated on: August 14, 2013 at 1:18 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the third entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory There is no good reason to oppose polygamy. None whatsoever. Most media coverage of polygamy these days concerns sensational cases with arranged marriage, patriarchy, misogyny, incest, and paedophilia, but that does not mean that polygamy necessarily entails any of those crimes and abuses. The polygamy you need to go... Read more

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2013-09-25T15:11:08-04:00

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[Turing 2013] Atheist Entry #2

Last updated on: September 25, 2013 at 3:11 pm By Leah Libresco

This is the second entry in the Atheist round of the 2013 Ideological Turing Test. This year, atheists and Christians responded to questions about sex, death, and literature. Polyamory I admit, when I heard that polyamory was going to be one of the topics of this year’s ideological Turing test, this wasn’t how I was hoping the question would be framed. The “sacramental” side is awkward to answer as an atheist, and I’m not quite sure what to... Read more

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