Aet Lindling

Having one sort of disadvantage does not absolve you from checking your other privileges. Gay men have male privilege. White women have white privilege. A trans-woman of colour might have ...

I really disagree with not letting heterosexual, cisgendered people into groups related to things that are not hetero or cis. It alienates people, it's bigoted, and it implicitly supports the ...

From what basis are we to derive a foundation, then? What can be done? If we do not restrain ourselves to the God depicted in the Bible, there is no ...

BadNarrator, the pragmatic choice is essentially the most moral one. To make any choice at all there must be a basis of morality to draw any framework from, and being ...

Not quite, ideally the guilty are jailed primarily to keep them out of society, so they can not pose a threat, and secondarily as incentive for others to stay within ...

Yep. Right now, I wonder if all the trouble women went through the centuries may be, ultimately, the fault of the Bible? O.o That's not entirely fair to say. Part ...

Those interested in this discussion may want to see Blackstone's formulation . Some relevant bits I'll lift from that page: "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than ...

It's a very foreign and odd thing to think about, but in the end, it's not exactly eugenics, is it, and by itself there isn't anything integrally immoral about it, ...

3. Pregnant rape victim (please don't get offended, it was for a project) I'm not offended, but that's simply inaccurate. In the case of a legitimate rape...

I think most of us know this, no worries!

Well, I capitalize Voldemort's name.

RIP YWS. :(

-I'm not arguing about the legalizaiton of alcohol. Alcohol is dangerous, so is tobacco, I'm not saying its not. Fair enough, I tend to assume people aren't in favor of ...

I don't think it should be legal -Unhealthy when smoked the most common method Not anywhere near as unhealthy as tobacco, or alcohol when abused, and alcohol is very frequently ...

You seem to have just explained why you should take my advice. Get into the details, discuss, flesh out ideas. Don't just spout fluff and vaguely formed concepts which may ...