Incandescence

I was spanked as a child, and many of the people I know were, too (In fact, all of the ones where this question has been raised were spanked). I ...

Minerva, If you can stomach the irony, it was scientifically proven that scientists naturally contaminate whatever they're observing a la Schrödinger's Cat. There's a similar debate going on about li

Well, I think the design idea behind it was probably to create sort of a "quilt," or a "network" (a spiderweb works too) to show how the world is connected ...

Minerva, Your first article vaguely presents counter-evidence to a theory. That doesn't make the theory wrong; it means the researchers found a correlation between two events that only accounted for ...

Rubric, 2:Because something is in the constitution or validated by the constitution, does not make it morally unassailable. It is not in the Constitution. It has nothing to do with ...

Also, as an interesting aside, if we remove airplanes, then the number of airplanes flown into buildings is highly reduced. Look: your argument is that without guns, less crime with ...

Americans have handguns because of their Constitutional right to bear arms. End of story. We have guns in part to protect ourselves from violent criminals, yes; however, more importantly, we ...

Defense. Defence=De-fence=taking down a fence. Obvious.

Rubric, Yes, you've hit on the real issue. "Just" is an adjective reserved for punishment. War isn't a punishment; it's an action. Is there such a thing as "just" running? ...

Sureal, Earth's "global" climate isn't warming. The north Atlantic has been cooling for the last century by all records. Earth's warming is also only localized to certain areas. Another fact: ...

What exactly is a just war...? You all are saying WWI was unjust, yet the criterion for what could start a war back then is not the same as it ...

Jiggity, I think your argument suggests that adults get the same thing out of stories as children, which isn't true. Just as it isn't true that every child gets the ...

I figured it might be good to have a discussion which is actually pertinent to writing, if anyone cares for it. Sorry the post is so long, but I was ...

Depends.

I think there's a big difference between withdrawing active/supportive treatment and giving drugs to actually end someone's life. It's the latter that most people tend to see a moral dilema ...