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Re: New Debate Forum Rules
I for one welcome the removal of meme-based debating.
Sep 19, 2014 -
Re: Personhood
Every passing day brings us closer to making contact with an extraterrestrial species, and then theories of personhood only relating to humans are completely blown away. [Citation Needed] But what ...
Sep 17, 2014 -
Re: Would you steal another's novel?
^ But that's not the same as passing it off as your own. I mean, Christopher Tolkien finished his father's work after J.R.R died, but he never claimed that any ...
Sep 17, 2014 -
Re: Termination of Pregnancy due to foetal abnormalities
What I'm getting from this is that the women's rights movement is basically Hitler.
Sep 15, 2014 -
Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?
Zolen Conceptually, "freedom" is probably at its strongest when defined negatively, as freedom "from" various things. By acknowledging that death is not the answer to murder, you're acknowledging that
Sep 8, 2014 -
Re: Would UKIP be good for the UK?
I think it might be more accurate to say that Farage opposes Gay Marriage so long as it takes place under the jurisdiction of an EU court, and that if ...
Sep 7, 2014 -
Re: Fanfiction Debate
Spotswood I think you're paying a little too much attention to the trappings of legitimacy, which I feel have more to do with commerce than matters of artistic nuance. There's ...
Sep 4, 2014 -
Re: Fanfiction Debate
I'm a fantasy writer. Almost the entirety of my genre is fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off. Should I somehow denigrate those who choose to skip the process of ...
Sep 3, 2014 -
Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?
Sir Bearington?
Aug 31, 2014 -
Re: Critical acclaim or commercial success?
Commercial success might let me write full-time. Critical acclaim might get me invited to an awards dinner with a bunch of people who attend literary award dinners. I'll take the ...
Aug 29, 2014 -
Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?
1) How does the anti-hand movement interact with wrongful findings of guilt (for instance, later overturned by new evidence, or a new suspect). 2) What does such a violently retributive ...
Aug 27, 2014 -
Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?
I think it basically falls within a wider umbrella of questions that might be titled the: "When is ok to treat human beings like they aren't actually human beings?" questions, ...
Aug 25, 2014 -
Re: The Serious Discussion and Debate... Debate
It's not about being right or wrong. Like I said before, people's safety and comfort > freedom of expression. In the compound phrase “safety and comfort” you manage a blurring ...
Aug 24, 2014 -
Re: The Serious Discussion and Debate... Debate
Correct me if I'm wrong Rubric, but it sounds like you think the people who are effected by and respond negatively to bigotry and intolerance are the villains, not the ...
Aug 22, 2014 -
Re: The Serious Discussion and Debate... Debate
I think blanket bans are a terrible idea, made even worse by the ongoing problems of enforcement already discussed (and raised by Karzkin in the same post). I also think ...
Aug 21, 2014
