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		<title>Who was for sale?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so this story is pretty unedifying all round. But surely, the judge is confused:
Judge Alexander said: “This is not a usual case. You [the defendant] were bought off by the child’s parents, who received £18,000 from you in order not to go to the police.      “That is reprehensible behaviour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/who-was-for-sale/306/</link>
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		<title>Baroness Uddin on choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s nice that Baroness Uddin has been cleared of any wrongdoing over her expenses claims.
However, it is certainly arguable that she ought to be shamed for having (jointly) written – or at least for having put her name to – the following:
No religion of the world restricts choice, and we believe that good parents cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/baroness-uddin-on-choice/305/</link>
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		<title>Oh Yes, Atheists Are Very Rational</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is simultaneously amusing and rather sad.
Most of all though it is more evidence – if more evidence is needed after the on-going shenanigans of the atheist wars (“Oh no, Chris Mooney is hosting a podcast!”) – that atheists, freethinkers (ha!), and the like, are no more rational than anybody else. (Probably).
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		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/oh-yes-atheists-are-very-rational/303/</link>
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		<title>On Internet Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the philosophers who have written on the internet have argued that internet relationships are in various ways diminished compared to everyday, embodied kinds. For example, Hubert Dreyfus in his On The Internet argues that: 
our sense of the reality of things and people and our ability to interact effectively with them depend on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/on-internet-relationships/294/</link>
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		<title>I Need Your Help!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m putting together an online activity about fear of death. Part of it will involve two tests of mental agility. These have to be at the same level of difficulty. So I need to pre-test the two tests. That’s where you come in! 
If you could follow this link, and do the two tests – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/i-need-your-help/293/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Easy If You Get No Offers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Tiger Woods thing is quite amusing, obviously. But if it is true that he has strayed, then really it isn’t surprising. Fidelity is (relatively) easy if beautiful people aren’t offering you sex all the time. If they are, as is presumably the case with Tiger Woods, then it gets a whole lot harder.
I used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/its-easy-if-you-get-no-offers/292/</link>
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		<title>Not Stupid, Just Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are pretty insulting about Richard Seymour. In one sense, this is understandable, because his political commitments are juvenile (I mean that literally: the SWP espouse the kind of politics one should have gotten over by the time Freshers’ week finishes at university).
But the suggestion that he is stupid – which crops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/not-stupid-just-wrong/291/</link>
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		<title>Consensual, With Genuine Affection &#8211; Go To Jail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. A teacher is jailed for having consensual sex with a 16 year old girl.
I’m not going to run through the arguments again that make this a ridiculous over-reaction.
But consider the following:
Grim made a full confession to the affair, which involved sexual contact but not full intercourse.
Sentencing, Judge Paul Darlow told him… [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/consensual-with-genuine-affection-go-to-jail/286/</link>
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		<title>Poor Bunny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is ridiculous. The boy was fifteen. It was consensual. If he is experiencing anything like trauma, it seems overwhelmingly likely that this is only because people make such a fuss about this kind of thing.
Yes, Madeleine Martin probably should have known better. Yes, the power relationship was likely asymmetrical. Yes, it isn’t a good idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/poor-bunny/282/</link>
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		<title>Misunderstanding Richard Dawkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene is the kind of book that changes the way that people look at the world. Its importance is that it articulates a gene’s-eye view of evolution. According to this view, all organisms, including human beings, are ‘survival machines’ that have been ‘blindly programmed’ to preserve their genes (see The Selfish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeremystangroom.com/misunderstanding-richard-dawkins/276/</link>
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