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Some people have more natural rights than others.

If God’s essential nature determines what is morally good and right, then we cannot learn anything about morality from sources independent of God or religion.

Locke maintains that people have no rights until they leave the state of nature and establish a society via a social contract.

Careful consideration shows that a Rawlsian liberal democracy is fairly well-equipped to avoid structural violence, although it’s still important that it doesn’t suffer from too much moral failure.

It seems possible for Kantian theory to allow an abortion or even infanticide, since these do not kill rational agents.

It is likely that there are only instrumental values, with no value being intrinsic.

Assange blew whistle that US Apache helicopter killed innocent people because there was a known threat from them.

In the dialogue Euthyphro, Euthyphro wins the argument 

Determining how to properly assess a religion’s moral teachings is especially important because so many things-both terrible and good-are done by people based on their religious beliefs.

Second wave feminism focused on personal identity and gender, which led to the third wave’s focus on critiquing society and exposing its established inequities against women.