[joebuck]

"Prof. Bently Glass, who suggested that the notions of good and evil be completely divorced from their moral connotations and redefined as what is good or bad for the development of a species?"

How do you know what is "good or bad for the species" without a definition of good or bad yet? In any event, "what is good or bad for the development of the species" is ultimately a philosophical question, incapable of being quantified. This is a pretty poor attempt to define good and evil.

[SampleMan]

"Prof. Bently Glass, who suggested that the notions of good and evil be completely divorced from their moral connotations and redefined as what is good or bad for the development of a species?"

And that is how you come to tossing malformed babies and the infirm off of cliffs. Indeed, it is exactly how the NAZI's defined good and evil, based on what was best for "their" species.

[trek]

"Hitchens is a very surprising lefty. He is one of the very few on the left who actually to this day — DEFENDS Bush’s decision to depose Saddam and stabilize Iraq.

But then I guess he has a motive as his latest book suggests -— HE HATES ALL RELIGION."

Hitchens is not that hard to understand. Hitchens is a homo. But he is not a stupid homo. He hates religion and G-d because he thinks, falsely, that their admonition against his sexual predilection are why he is so angry and unhappy. But he also sees the communist left for the murderous fanatics they are. Hitchens is no more complicated than that.