Cav's Place

It would appear that British pupils are advised to have an enjoyable sex life. Despite the many indignant voices which immediately challenged this recommendation, it still might just signal an improvement in the officials’ attitudes towards sex and masturbation, which can only be a good thing. The detractors are, of course, right when they say […]

I’ve recently bumped into a few people who were very much against abortion, which triggered a few discussions of varying length, one of them actually being rather long and moderately interesting. That made me want to write this post and explain exactly how I see this issue and why. I also want to use this […]

Despite the fact that it appears to be an impossible task, there are several proven methods of creating large scale social change. None are easy and most can be considered evil, but they work and that’s what matters. I’m most likely missing some of them, but I’ll try to go through the ones I know […]

I’m looking at the Gallup “moral acceptability” survey results and shudder. It might just be about the United States, but what makes it worse is that I’m sure the results would have been even more worrying in a very large number of other countries. Don’t even want to think about the results of such a […]

Earth is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It’s less than a grain of sand in the great desert of our galaxy, which is but a grain of sand in the great desert of the universe. But Earth is all we have, it becomes our own little “grand scheme of things” and we compare […]