CowLogic

You don't need to be depressed to consider suicide. There are hidden and/or philosophical justifications for it as well. (Not that I agree with them.)

We should probably define supernatural before we can determine whether we "believe" in things that qualify as such. How can anything truly be supernatural? What is natural if it is ...

The remarkability of the human species and the physical/chemical mechanisms that allowed life to come about are based purely on our own perceptions. Who are we to say that life ...

I'm pretty sure the universe is not infinite. (There's probably life out there, and it may have been discovered (?) but I'm just saying.)

I think that trite literature has its place in the development of the creativity, literacy, and artistic talent of young kids. It also provides typically healthy escapism and lets children ...

I mean the parent doesn't necessarily even get a choice in this specific example, do they? I figured the doctor would report the weight, sex, etc of the infant.

Would the state really take away your child because you didn't put a sex on the birth certificate? I wouldn't think so. I just think it would make registering for ...

Personally, I doubt that any significant change will be made within Hong Kong or general China with the corporate network still bleeding through the seems of the culture. Even a ...

@Snoink : yeah, definitely i agree. if refusing to assign a gender at birth gets you in legal trouble or something, for gods sake assign a gender. Without civil boldness, ...

1. Fetuses are both living and nonliving during their existence. They start out nonliving, then, 12 weeks or so later, they are alive. 2. Fetuses are both nonliving tissue and ...

Murder is a crime because in order for authority to be embraced by a populace, there must be an initial cession to that populace. There must be a motive for ...

Not being good enough to do something that a typical person or amateur can do. (An offshoot of pride)

Also, a huge, huge, huge assumption that you're taking on, Spotswood, is that a government of this nature would automatically be morally sound, would be progressively attuned to the needs ...

If I recall, Nixon and Clinton had their fair share of ideals as well. Do not forget that assertion of political authority is as much an ideal as the lack ...

I don't believe that we necessarily need to progressively worship efficiency. That type of philosophy has inevitably stemmed from the Dynamo era of thought, in which industrial engineering has given ...