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		<title>Inconceivable!</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/inconceivable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is fertility a health issue or a lifestyle choice? This month a health care refom advisory panel will meet to consider whether contraception should be offered free of charge as a form of preventative medicine, the AP reports. Healthcare reform of course poses many questions concerning how medical services are paid for and delivered. But, [...]


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		<title>Play the game</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/02/play-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video games, value, and free speech The Supreme Court will soon hear a case concerning the state of California’s right to regulate the sale of violent video games to minors.  Writing for The Washington Post, game designer Daniel Greenberg thinks that the First Amendment should protect video games.  His argument relies on the value of [...]


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		<title>Guest Post: The dignity of the prostitute</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/guest-post-the-dignity-of-the-prostitute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Human dignity&#8221; demands that we must (never) legalize prostitution Last week, a judge in Canada’s largest province struck down the country’s federal laws criminalizing prostitution.  Judge Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that prohibitions on prostitution infringed Canadians’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression and to security of the person.  If the decision [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/06/26/banning-the-burqa/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Banning the burqa'>Banning the burqa</a></li>
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		<title>Ballad of an obese man</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/06/ballad-of-an-obese-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberalism, free choice, and Happy Meals It has been reported that the city of San Francisco is considering an ordinance that would ban toys in kids meals unless the meals contain fruit and vegetable portions and limits calories.  While the proposed ban applies to all restaurants, it is targeted specifically at McDonald’s and their infamous [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/08/who-should-make-you-eat-your-brussels-sprouts/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Who should make you eat your brussels sprouts?'>Who should make you eat your brussels sprouts?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/27/who-decides-whats-best-for-children/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Who decides what&#8217;s best for children?'>Who decides what&#8217;s best for children?</a></li>
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		<title>Worlds apart –why an open society may be better after all</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/worlds-apart-%e2%80%93why-an-open-society-may-be-better-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Han wrote about Thomas Friedman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times on the “green economy,” contrasting the technocratic approach of China’s authoritarian rulers with the haphazard and undirected approach of the American political system. Han suggested that technocratic and authoritarian governments may have an advantage for costly but necessary endeavors. There is certainly [...]


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		<title>Sex sometimes involves money</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/09/sex-sometimes-involves-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it still just sex? Last Friday, Craigslist censored the Adult Services section of its website after attorneys general in 17 states accused the site of aiding human trafficking and prostitution. By all accounts, the move is almost entirely symbolic. There are still plenty of thinly-veiled references on the site to erotic services. And Melissa [...]


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		<title>Morality and gaming</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/25/morality-and-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why banning realistic depictions of war in games is wrong The BBC reported on Monday that British Defense Secretary Liam Fox has continued to defend comments he made calling for a retail ban of the newest Medal of Honor game. The publishers of the game, Electronic Arts, have defended it and accused Fox of portraying [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equality butts heads with freedom Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith write at Politico that a new debate about first principles and the role of government has replaced the social issues at stake during the “culture wars” of the last three decades. This dispute over first principles is deeply entwined with questions of national identity and [...]


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		<title>Fight fire with fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Net neutrality and competing claims of free speech According to The Hill, a coalition of thirty-five tea party groups has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, asking the agency not to impose net neutrality rules on the Internet.  Roughly speaking, net neutrality prevents Internet service providers from favoring some content over others by [...]


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		<title>Sensitivity and principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, President Obama weighed in publicly on the mosque at ground zero. In doing so, he has joined Mayor Bloomberg as one of few major political figures who have openly voiced support for the project on the basis of freedom of religion. However, polls indicate that Americans as well as New Yorkers overwhelmingly oppose [...]


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