Internet research 7.0 Conference Program:

The conference program is available here, in PDF format.

Prejudice and fear surrounding sexual pleasure makes me weep:
You’ve seen the bumper sticker: “You think education is expensive? Try ignorance.” The costs of sexual ignorance are far, far greater than the costs of honest sexual education.
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knowledge in this case is necessary, to keep someone in ignorance because of personal embarassment seems to be antithetical to the spirit of education.

Belfast Telegraph:
Isn’t it contradictory to ascribe human-based rights to animals? Surely
it is absurd to apply a purely human concept to an animal who has no hope of ever understanding such a thing?
Zaki Nahaboo, London

Not at all. Anyone who ascribes rights to babies or humans with intellectual disabilities must be willing to attribute rights to beings who can’t understand the concept. It’s the moral agents, the ones who are acting, who need to understand the concept. Those to whom we attribute rights, do not need to understand these concepts.
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He’s a utilitarian, i’m more of a virtue theorist, but unsurprisingly most of his ethical answers are similar to mine.