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	<title>Gavin Orland &#187; Human Relations</title>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins&#8217; forums suspended</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hardly the biggest news in the world. Given some of the panic on the web one would think whole of the Internet was due to be shut down. Richard Dawkins&#8217; web forums have been suspended pending an overdue clean up. I&#8217;ve been commenting at length on this here.
My original article critical of his forums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSS Secularist of the Year award</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nss-secularist-of-the-year-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m touching on an issue that is very taboo here: race. While criticism of religion is now fairly passé, if you dare to even remotely question anything to do with perceived wisdom on race you will instantly be branded racist. Oh well, that&#8217;s the point here, to challenge the dogmas of political correctness, so here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The colours of London are black, blue and grey</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/the-colours-of-london-are-black-blue-and-grey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you travel on the London Underground, as I have done frequently for 20 years, you might notice something: from a palette of many different colours, some vibrant and happy, people invariably choose shades of only three: black, blue and grey.
There is nothing to stop people from choosing brighter colours: red, orange, yellow and green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to ask questions at a public debate</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/how-to-ask-questions-at-a-public-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/how-to-ask-questions-at-a-public-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watch quite a lot of public debates on the Internet and sometimes I attend them as an audience member too. At such debates there is usually a panel of distinguished guests. They have ten minutes or so each to speak on the given topic, then ten minutes to answer. Eventually the debate is opened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gym music</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gym-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gym-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You notice all kinds of things at the gym. People sitting around doing nothing, sitting on machines so other people can&#8217;t use them, grunting loudly and inconsiderately because they can&#8217;t manage the weights they&#8217;re lifting, you get all types.
I get on very well with the staff, who are very friendly, and most people are okay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gesticulation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gesticulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/gesticulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greater the degree of gesticulation, the lower the degree of linguistic competence and confidence.
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		<title>Some are more equal than others</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/some-are-more-equal-than-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/some-are-more-equal-than-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the case of animal slaughter in the UK, one law applies to Jews and Muslims and another (requiring more humane treatment of animals) applies to the rest of us.
The same double standard also exists when it comes to the benefits system. Bigamy is illegal under UK law, but a man may have four wives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Gray: Alibi</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/david-gray-alibi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[









So much for songs which make light of rehab.
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		<title>Between Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/between-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/between-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep doing it &#8211; listening to BBC Radio 4. Well, I don&#8217;t have a TV licence and there aren&#8217;t that many talk stations. There&#8217;s the World Service, which is good and offers a more global perspective, but today I tried Radio 4 again.
Now the trouble is, I keep finding that whenever they have these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Enfield: Saw you coming</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/harry-enfield-saw-you-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/harry-enfield-saw-you-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[









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		<title>Bel Mooney gives women a bad name</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/bel-mooney-gives-women-a-bad-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/bel-mooney-gives-women-a-bad-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Daily Mail today about virtues of crying, divorcee journalist Bel Mooney says:
&#8220;What&#8217;s more, any woman worth her salt (sorry!) knows that from time to time a few sad sniffs (or even the downturn of a mouth) will do wonders in bending a man to your will.&#8221;
I had to read this again to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musing on feminism</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/musing-on-feminism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/musing-on-feminism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the smug tones of Jenni Murray this morning on Woman&#8217;s Hour (there isn&#8217;t a Man&#8217;s Hour &#8211; perish the thought!) made me think a little about feminism. I wondered what people like Murray make of the fact that some women admit to enjoying sex with strangers (I guess this is okay because they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice quotation</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nice-quotation-21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/nice-quotation-21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In practice, a “woman’s right to choose” turns out to mean the right to choose not to have any women.&#8221;
- Mark Steyn, Killing Her Softly
Steyn&#8217;s comment in this context is about the preference for having boys over girls (sexism), but it could equally be applied (and he would apply it) to the decision made by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalising on ancestors</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/capitalising-on-ancestors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/capitalising-on-ancestors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My theme here is again an aspect of the political correctness that is weakening society. In these days of constant claims of rights (and little sense of duty), people would do well to remember the following:
We have no right to claim special benefits for ills that begot our ancestors, any more than we have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/acceptance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/acceptance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is best of all to be accepted for who you are, but it is better to be rejected for who you are than accepted for someone you&#8217;re not &#8211; and it is worst of all to be rejected for someone you&#8217;re not.
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		<title>Two kinds of Humanist</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/two-kinds-of-humanist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/two-kinds-of-humanist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written of two kinds of atheist and two kinds of Christian. Belief systems are a somewhat tangled web, but I have noticed that nonetheless a rough distinction may also be made between two kinds of Humanist currently out there:
Soft

These are left-wing liberal idealists. You will often see them smoking, with piercings etc., protesting about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/integration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 08:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent short visit I made to Balham town centre all of the most notable incidents happened to come from the black community.
First of all I witnessed a boy revving his moped menacingly and then zooming off down the busy road doing a wheelie. The moped was of course extremely loud. Needless to say, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entitlement</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/entitlement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/entitlement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that people often believe what they are told and rarely evaluate things for themselves – especially in the case of fashions – it is hardly surprising that many young people, especially women, so evidently have a sense of automatic “entitlement” these days.
Obviously it is not all, but it is a noticable trend, especially among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use of language</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/use-of-language/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/use-of-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 19:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to be listing quite a lot of logical fallacies on this site recently, simply because one hears them being committed so often. One worth a mention is begging the question. The Wikipedia article is clear, again, and draws the distinction between this fallacy and the over-used phrase &#8220;that begs the question..&#8221; &#8211; you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utilitarianism in 24</title>
		<link>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/utilitarianism-in-24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gavinorland.org/human-relations/utilitarianism-in-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If nothing else, Fox Television&#8217;s 24 is an excellent example of ethical dilemmas and of Utilitarianism in action. It shows both Rule and Act Utilitarianism.
The character Jack Bauer is at most times an uncompromising Act Utilitarian. He cares nothing  for deontology and assesses each of his acts according to the greatest well-being for the greatest [...]]]></description>
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