A statement that appears to assure a performance and form a contract but, when scrutinized, leaves to the speaker the choice of performance or non-performance, which means that the speaker…

This post is part of a series of posts which started out as a single unified whole, but was later found it to be incredibly long, thus I’ve decided to…

This post is part of a series of posts which started out as a single unified whole, but was later found it to be incredibly long, thus I’ve decided to…

This post is part of a series of posts which started out as a single unified whole, but was later found it to be incredibly long, thus I’ve decided to…

…marriage, so far as its essential basis is concerned, is not a contractual relation. On the contrary, though marriage begins in contract, it is precisely a contract to transcend the standpoint of…

It’s that time again, sigh, my comments in the square brackets and red. When Mathew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming in 1998, I was 17. I got the news from…

My response in red. During an interview with the influential Time magazine in July 2003, the then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong announced that his government does not discriminate and…

The Point of the Law is to Discriminate The first point we need to note is that equality always means equality under the law. The point of the law is…

Some Preliminary Remarks Philosophical reasonings are not mathematical demonstrations and therefore one should not expect strict deductive rigor in such matters. (In fact, it would be unreasonable to expect absolute…

For those of you who have been following my notes, you know that the phrase “insidious and dangerous” was used by the Pope recently to describe gay marriages. However, in…