Audy

Indoor plumbing. All that food.

We know discrimination and prejudice has existed since, well...forever. You can find it in the Bible, and even in some of the earliest texts and fictions, and because discrimination, xenophobia, ...

There's more to a person than skin, hair, and eye color. That society treats these attributes as status symbols is what's emblematic of a racist society. I wouldn't call it ...

I don't know Spotswood. It's not that I don't agree with what you're saying or the points that you're making. I absolutely agree life isn't about being comfortable. I also ...

^ I think Zolen's argument is about the establishment clause: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." and less about equal rights, though both are arguments that ...

Meandbrooks, you've brought up some interesting questions for discussion that I want to address, but I wanted to ask you first, regarding this: Well, personally, I think the need to ...

Not that I support the view of worker-drone society, but it's a mistake to regard music and art as nonessential to such a society. Most schools do categorize them as ...

Hey, even the poorly written books evoke the response in a reader like, "I can do better than that!" and then we get more well written books.

Sounds like you're advocating for complete power and force (you use "efficiency"), whatever the cost to humanity or moral ethics. What is the worth of stability in a government if ...

^ Even in its purest form, hasn't majority rule proved corrupt? Or the masses persuaded by misinformation and/or apathy? In a pure democracy, who decides what issues get discussed and/or ...

Historically, the largest, strongest, and smartest people were the ones who acquired most of the wealth or power in their society or region because they simply had the ability to ...

Aren't we already an oligarchy of corporations? XD

Hand squeezed, or no go. There's something about commercialized carton juice, it does not taste remotely like oranges D:

@Lebensborn I think we pretty much agree with most things, and the rest of it is just semantics, particularly about what we consider is or isn't "objectification". Objectification vs Fantasizing ...

If someone I just met wants to have sex with me it literally means that I have been sexually objectified at some point in their thought process. It's interesting because ...