A G K Y R A

Dear Readers,

It’s now over a year since I last posted here on the eve of the 2008 presidential election. I have a new blog at a new location, and I hope you’ll visit: phwdennis.com. It’ll have more of a professional orientation than Agkyra had, but I hope you’ll still find it interesting and worthwhile to read. If you have a subscription (whether in a blog reader or by e-mail), you’ll have to re-subscribe at the new site if you want to keep up to date without having to visit the site manually.

Thanks for your consideration and conversation in the past!

Yours sincerely,

Agkyra

Does atheistic naturalism countenance cannibalism? I’m not talking about killing people to use as food, but if someone dies anyway, why not have a meal? It’s a serious question for atheists; I’m not trying to be gross.

Update: I posted this in haste earlier this afternoon and didn’t consider that many people who come across it won’t have followed earlier discussions about atheism and normativity, among other things. Even if they have, it’s not obvious what I’m getting at. So let me take this opportunity to clarify my meaning. Most atheists I know hold that physical stuff is all there is. If that’s the case, then a human being is not fundamentally different than an apple. The human and the apple are just different configurations of physical stuff. It seems that if you eat the one, you might as well eat the other. I just put it out there as something to think about, but as Autumn Harvest makes it clear in a comment, that’s not really any big deal for atheists.

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