Come join my next live Rationally Selfish Webcast! This week, I’ll answer questions on the morality of reverse engineering, atheists singing religious music, this-worldly success of faith-driven people, police lying to suspects, and more.

As always, it’s on Sunday morning at 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET. You can watch the webcast and join in the text chat via www.RationallySelfish.com. Greg Perkins of Objectivist Answers will be my audio co-host, as usual.

Each week, I answer questions on practical ethics and the principles of living well. I select the most popular and interesting questions from the ongoing queue of questions. Please submit your questions, as well as vote and comment on questions that you find interesting!

Here are the questions that I’ll answer this week:

• Question 1: The Morality of Reverse Engineering: Is it immoral to reverse-engineer a product? Is it immoral to reverse engineer a product, make changes to the product (effectively building a better product) and then sell this new product to the highest bidder (or use it for yourself)? Is this considered theft or a legitimate activity?
• Question 2: Atheists Singing Religious Music: Is it moral for atheists to perform religious music? I love to sing classical music, and that usually means performing with a group that does religious music, including Catholic mass and other religious songs. Some of these groups are secular and perform it for the artistic value alone, but other groups are explicitly religious, such as affiliated with a church. Is it wrong for an atheist like me to join either of these types of groups?
• Question 3: This-Worldly Success of Faith-Driven People: Why do some people of faith survive and even flourish? If reason is required for life, and faith abdicates reason, then how can anyone who has faith live and prosper? In particular, how do some devoutly religious people manage to be so productive and creative in business?
• Question 4: Police Lying to Suspects: Should the police lie to suspects in the course of an investigation? Police routinely lie to suspects during the course of an investigation, usually in order to trick them into admitting something or revealing information they would normally not reveal. Note that the people they lie to may not have been convicted of any crime, and are merely “persons of interest” or suspects. Is this routine constant lying moral? What do you think it does to the policeman’s character after many years?

After that, we’ll do a round of totally impromptu “Rapid Fire Questions.”

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