Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.