Life should be touched, not strangled.
The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.
You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.
If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.
It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.
I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.
I am indeed a moral realist.
The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.
Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying
But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.