The Open-Minded Person
By definition, open-mindedness is being receptive to argument. Open-mindedness has nothing to do with what you believe but how you respond to people who disagree with you. A truly open-minded person doesn’t simply want to know what a person believes but also wants to know why, listens to the argument, then makes a decision on […]
Abortion: Baby or Fetus
Recently (2001) in a college class on the “Psychology of Sex Differences,” my teacher, Dr. Taylor, was talking about “gender-based murder,” such as happenings in India where wives have “accidental deaths,” which are often not investigated by the police, and the husbands go on to remarry and collect another dowry. Another “gender-based murder” that was […]
Of Abortions and Straw Men
On the Woman’s Right to Choose Probably the number one argument that I hear when discussing or debating abortion is that “it should be the woman’s right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.” Since this is election year, 2000, I have heard it more often than I had previously, and as I […]