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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Spanking children. Discipline or abuse?

    And how exactly would classical conditioning be applied? Why do you propose it over operant conditioning? Telling people to Google something without providing context does not make your point for ...

    May 20, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: YWS Screencaps

    Because chat needs more parody. YWSChariotsofFire.png

    May 19, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: Changes to Review Day?

    I'd just like to point out that having power reviewers (or people who have reputations as such) on a team is no guarantee of victory. The Review Day where I ...

    May 10, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    If you saw somebody pointing a gun at somebody else, you have to decide whether you want to restrain them, restricting freedom, or let them fire and kill somebody. Almost ...

    May 10, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Would you take a one-way ticket to Mars?

    The solution obviously is to rebuild the internet on Mars. Only better. Obviously.

    May 2, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    Actually Dragon, a foetus fails to meet the criteria of 1, 5, 7, and maybe 6 (but I'm not 100% sure, ask a paediatrician). Aaactually, a fetus fits criteria 1 ...

    Apr 26, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Accidental Racist

    What's the name of the math textbook you used in your junior year of highschool? College Algebra, published by Addison-Wesley. And junior-high was close to a decade ago for me. ...

    Apr 12, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Accidental Racist

    About those scholarships, this post has a number of useful links, but long story short, black students in general get low quality education. Combined with the poverty black Americans in ...

    Apr 11, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Accidental Racist

    When I took US history (three-ish years ago), this was most certainly not the case. Both the text book, and the teacher, made it very clear that Native American civilizations ...

    Apr 11, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Accidental Racist

    In the US, racial politics go back to before the US was founded as a nation. You never learn about the origins of the perceptions that lead to slavery and ...

    Apr 11, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is it irresponsible to have more than two children?

    It's worth noting that in most first-world countries, the fertility rate is around 2 or less. Wikipedia has some nice comparison tables. The general trend is the more developed the ...

    Apr 5, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is the death of one man a tragedy and the death of millions

    The operative word is "distance". If someone you don't know or care for dies, well, it's sad for everyone who knew and cared for them, but why should you be ...

    Apr 5, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: *Should Guns Be Outlawed in America?*

    Thanks for clearing up the hunting bit Kyll, I'm not hip to US hunting laws. That said though, if you can make a case for you need to hunt, sure, ...

    Apr 5, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: *Should Guns Be Outlawed in America?*

    I'm a strong girl-- but I can't pull back a bow with a heavy enough draw to kill a deer. I'm incapable. Compound bows... That said, you only need about ...

    Apr 4, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Clothing

    For the record, egalitarianism is concerned with the equality of all people in all venues, and focused subsets thereof. Feminism is sometimes considered to be a subset of egalitarianism, focused ...

    Apr 4, 2013


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