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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Has the standard of books been lowered in the past few years

    I have to say i agree with Nate, but would like to add a further question (besides his: what exactly is being compared--children fifty years ago weren't reading Tristram Shanty ...

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evil Nazis

    This debate is now way off-topic. I am going to make a brief comment and then lock it, as I and several others have already addressed Galerius's question. Those of ...

    Nov 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evil Nazis

    Galerius, As I pointed out earlier, Nazism is not "as bad" as Stalinism or any of the others you have listed. Nazism is fascism, which is fundamentally different than totalitarianism.

    Nov 18, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evil Nazis

    Galerius, Others have already pointed out why your five "issues" with the idiomatic use of "Nazi" are irrelevant/wrong. Let me add the Nazism was fascism whereas Mao and Stalin were ...

    Nov 16, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: O_o

    Sexy.

    Nov 12, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Ban Gay Marriage

    Smorg-- I don't think it's wrong of them to send it back up the Courts. When "the will of the people" is limiting the civil liberties of part of the ...

    Nov 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Capital Punishment

    A death for a death makes the world an empty place, doesn't it? I'm sorry. I just feel the need to point that this is only true if everyone kills ...

    Nov 7, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Capital Punishment

    Execute them. As I've said repeatedly in other threads on the topic, the death penalty is reserved for the most heinous of crimes (those with malice aforethought, more than one ...

    Nov 6, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Ban Gay Marriage

    I think if people want to protect the sanctity of marriage they ought to outlaw divorce...

    Nov 6, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    Rubric: I have no idea what you're talking about in relation to my argument, unless you mean a comment I made more than three years ago. Otherwise I'm just being ...

    Oct 23, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    The logic behind the argument is that making abortion illegal won't stop women from seeking them out, so it is safer for women if they are legal for the time ...

    Oct 21, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    It is the "people will do it anyway" card with a disgusting appeal to sympathy, which has no legal or logical basis. It's flimsy and meritless as an argument. Don't ...

    Oct 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    Perhaps, Sureal. I didn't use "pro-life," nor did I suggest it as an alternative.

    Oct 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    oneeyedunicornhunter: Stay on topic. Replacing dialogue with Politically Correct slogans doesn't clarify anything or enlighten anyone. My choice to use "pro-abortion" was a conscious one and hardly "r

    Oct 19, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    I just wanted to remind the pro-abortion crowd that the argument that "people will do it anyway" isn't necessary or sufficient for making your case. It hardly qualifies as an ...

    Oct 19, 2008


You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
— Rod Serling