The Tao of Arizona Atheist: Enforcement of the Social Contract

In a previous post I explained the role of the social contract in a society and looked at some examples of how it might be applied. In this ...

The Tao of Arizona Atheist: The Social Contract

The social contract is an idea that's been around for centuries and has been expounded by some of the world's greatest thinkers: Rou...

The Tao of Arizona Atheist: The Subjectivity of Morality

The debate over whether or not morality is subjective or objective is a long one and with this post it is my goal is to explain the reasons ...

Christian Apologists Just Don't Understand Morality, Part 2

In the first piece I explained why it is a fallacy to argue that atheists, because they are mostly materialists, must abide by some form of ...

Anarchism: A Philosophical & Scientific Justification

Update: It looks as if I read too much into Robert Lanza's book. I had read it from the standpoint of Bob Clapp's philosophy, in tha...

Relative Morality and the Social Contract

There are many people who hate the idea of relative morality and try to ground morality upon some basis, but I would argue that they're ...

Contracts and Coercion

Contracts and the act of coercion are the only two ways in which human beings are able to interact with one another. A contract is a written...