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Links for 2008-10-07 [del.icio.us] Posted: 08 Oct 2008 12:00 AM CDT Preface to The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival Women are unreasonable. Ask most men. Aborigines mark 40 years as 'human beings' - Asia-Pacific, World News - Independent.ie "Until the referendum, Aborigines were not, officially, human beings. They were "flora and fauna"." Ethics & Morality: Philosophy of Behavior, Choice, and Character - Atheism and Theism Have Different Accounts of the Nature of Morality The terms ethics and morality are often used interchangeably and can mean the same in casual conversation, but morality refers to moral standards or conduct while ethics refers to the formal study of such standards and conduct. For theists, morality typically comes from gods and ethics is a function of theology; for atheists, morality is a natural feature of reality or human society and ethics is a part of philosophy. ...Atheists unfamiliar with the basics of moral philosophy will be unprepared to discuss morality and ethics with theists.