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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    Rubric, You still need to actually respond to the argument about it not violating any Constitutional rights to life. So far you've simply said, human dignity is an objective correlative ...

    May 12, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    The trouble is, for people like that, death isn't a deterrent or a punishment, either So often abolitionist arguments concerning the death penalty seem unsatisfying. I think it's because the ...

    May 12, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    Rubric, Legislation is based on the Constitution--not morals, nor anything else you or others have suggested. End of story. If you want to ramble about the subtle nuances of social ...

    May 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    In other news, in the United States of America, the Law is ordained foremost from the Constitution, where I don't hesitate to observe the words "abhorrent," "moral," and/or "sensible" are ...

    May 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    Jack, In North Korea, many things are legal or sanctioned by society which you would probably find morally reprehensible. Much the same in many African nations and tribes. Even in ...

    May 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    Jack, I think Sam's point about foreign users commenting on American domestic policies, and your response that it's immoral, barbaric, etc., is much the same logic (or one of them) ...

    May 10, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: tywc roll-call

    I am from the TYWC--same name, Incandescence. I think you were a little before me, but we did interact a few times, and I remember reading your poetry, at least.

    May 9, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evolution Facts.

    Commando, You have not shown anything wrong with evolution. You have pointed out shortcomings of the theory--it can't account for why we're here, blah blah blah--but those aren't counterexamples to ...

    Apr 22, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evolution Facts.

    Commando, You keep opposing God to religion, saying scientists hate God, blah blah blah. Look: God is not a scientific hypothesis. When you test God's existence, let me know, okay? ...

    Apr 21, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: College: Trying to keep girls out?

    Archstormangel, That's not what that article says. That's a rather unfounded hypothesis that the articles promote as part of their agenda; what colleges HAVE said is that they do make ...

    Apr 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evolution Facts.

    But you speak of it as truth. I suppose you don't need someone to point out that you also speak of creationism as truth and with less evidence and support ...

    Apr 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evolution Facts.

    Commando, The problem with your argument is that you might as well not believe any scientific or natural laws, because they can only ever be proven by so-called inductive reasoning--that ...

    Apr 20, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: College: Trying to keep girls out?

    The data in the articles are skewered in favor of the bias, but the problem with saying, "More girls are rejected than men" is that they haven't shown that the ...

    Apr 19, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Best Government

    The best form of governments hands down is a catistocracy--namely, one ruled by cats--wherein the largest function of our day would be napping. Well, of course, as Jack said, every ...

    Apr 18, 2008
  • Official Polls Re: Another poll for school

    Lunch. Hands down.

    Apr 18, 2008


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