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Morality, The Lord of the Rings, and Awkward Jokes w/ Dr Peter Kreeft

Pints With Aquinas

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The End of the Act of Speech Is to Communicate What Is

The reason we think that contraception is intrinsically evil is that it thoughts the end of the sexual act. That's not the only end of speech. And to deliberately deceive you with my speech seems to thwart the end of speech, doesn't it? Yes. I'm quite sure that you do not reveal to the Nazis where the Jews are. But ordinary people get a lot of things wrong. A lot of things seem right to us that aren't.

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