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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Girls and Science

    @Crunch I disagree that differences in mental ability are based on biological/gender lines, at least to the extent that is implied by statements such as "males are better at certain ...

    Jun 23, 2014
  • Official Polls Re: What's your dominant hand?

    @Blackwood I agree with you, to an extent. A lot of left-handed people have had to develop such a strong cross-dominance that, functionally, they are ambi, even though they weren't ...

    Jun 22, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    Because this topic pops up a lot in these here debates, but there's never been a thread specifically for it. Until now. So, what exactly is hate speech? Is it ...

    Jun 22, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Love and Soulmates

    You do surrender yourself to the other person, as you submit yourself to the whims and longings of the other person, But my guy wants a pet tarantula. There's no ...

    Jun 22, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Rhyme Scheme

    I am now compelled to sing every one of Emily Dickinson's poems I read.

    Jun 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Love and Soulmates

    Silly Kafka. ;P I am well aware of the physiological effects of love, however, obsessing over someone isn't the same as existing only in relation to that person, which is ...

    Jun 19, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Girls and Science

    As someone in the sciences who also tutors students of all ages in the sciences and related subjects (mainly math and chemistry), this topic is of particular interest to me. ...

    Jun 18, 2014
  • Official Polls Re: What's your dominant hand?

    I was born ambi, considering how one of my parents' favorite stories involve baby Kyll switching thumbs depending on which direction baby Kyll was looking. I tend to use my ...

    Jun 18, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    And I just realized I mixed up femurs and humeri. Again. I need to stop doing that. >.> ?? Sorry. I mean "Natural design" as in the possibilities of what ...

    Jun 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    I'm not sure why you're using an argument for natural design as a way to distinguish what is or isn't transhuman. Unless you believe that a higher power designed and ...

    Jun 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adults and "Young Adult" fiction

    I think it's stupid and completely unreasonable to stigmatize literature based on what demographic it's primarily marketed to. Everyone has different tastes, and just because someone prefers more "mat

    Jun 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    @Karzkin My sister would like to inform you about an unfortunately hilarious implication of this sentence: How is implanting a computer chip into a human brain fundamentally different from putting ...

    Jun 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    Those are some good points I suppose, but I still don't think they all qualify as examples of H+ because they are not really an increase of natural human limits/capacity ...

    Jun 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    @DudeMcGuy But there have been measurable changes in things like physical stature and mental capacity. For example, an increasing proportion of the population never grow wisdom teeth; the average heig

    Jun 14, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    I am not spreading anti-medicine propaganda. On the contrary, I am all for people receiving proper and adequate medical treatment. However, psychiatry as a practice has serious issues that result ...

    Jun 13, 2014


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Heschel