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→PZ Myers' reaction to daughter Skatje Myers' comments on bestiality
That said, I remind you that my position isn’t based on my own personal wants. I just don’t see any reason to ban it other than the same reason things like [[homosexuality]] and sodomy were banned: it’s icky. I think it’s bad practice to put social taboos into legislature when no actual logical argument can be made against it.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/just_when_you_think_slimy_sal.php Skatje Myers, Daughter of atheist PZ Myers]</ref>}}
That said, I remind you that my position isn’t based on my own personal wants. I just don’t see any reason to ban it other than the same reason things like [[homosexuality]] and sodomy were banned: it’s icky. I think it’s bad practice to put social taboos into legislature when no actual logical argument can be made against it.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/just_when_you_think_slimy_sal.php Skatje Myers, Daughter of atheist PZ Myers]</ref>}}
=== Skatje Myers on morality ===
On August 18, 2011, Skaje Myers wrote:
{{cquote|I’m a moral nihilist. I have no reason to believe that morality is anything other than preferences.
I have those preferences, of course — essentially it’s just intuitional leanings. Any need or desire to follow those leanings is purely for my own enjoyment. I decide what is right and wrong based on what I feel is right and wrong, and I follow them only because of a self-created obligation to myself. I demand that others follow the same “rules” I have for myself, because I want them to. It makes the world the way I want it to be.
The way I see it, every other system of morality is based on unjustifiable claims too, so why follow someone else’s invented ideas of right and wrong?<ref>[http://lacrimae-rerum.org/?p=169 Morality by Skaje Myers]</ref>
== PZ Myers and militant atheism ==
== PZ Myers and militant atheism ==