On Why We Should Look at Human Nature Like Chemistry and Not Geometry
I had a long drive this weekend to and from Chicago. Worth it, without question--I got to see some friends that I haven't seen since about a year ago at this time at Neil and Mike's wedding . But, long nevertheless, and so by the end of the trip back, I found myself flipping through the satellite radio channels. In the end, I found myself of EWTN, the conservative Catholic channel. Usually their material is awful, and this was sort of awful as well, but in the course of listening to what the speaker had to say, something clicked into place in a way it hadn't really clicked into place before. The interviewee was giving a run-down of why Catholics are right about contraception and gay issues. The core of his argument was that all Catholic positions flow from "reason," and that "reason" establishes that there is certain content to "human nature." If that is true, then to act in a manner inconsistent with human nature is per se unreasonabl...