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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion. A human right? What about Financial Abortion?

    Trying to define the identity of a group by the operations of its fringe elements (feminists want to ban vasectomies/muslims want to blow you up) is intellectually dishonest.

    Jul 30, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?

    I think it's probably in relation to their involvement in international affairs. There's more of a burden on you to understand other countries if you're going to walk in and ...

    Jul 30, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Israel's military operations against Gaza

    Karzkin & Kyllorac aaaaaaahahahahahahaha the bible? Really? Really? A book several millennia old, that is at best unreliable and at worst fraudulent, has absolutely no bearing on 21st century geo-poli

    Jul 30, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Israel's military operations against Gaza

    For further reading, I found this article on the gradual and systematic dehumanisation of Gazans, from Oxford University Visiting Research Fellow Alia Brahimi quite enlightening:

    Jul 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Israel's military operations against Gaza

    Robster. Criticising the ethnic cleansing committed by a nation-state is not racial prejudice. The problem with wheeling out the "anti-semitism" card is that when it is so readily and so ...

    Jul 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Israel's military operations against Gaza

    Dear Robster, Given that you evidently have the wherewithal to respond, I was hoping that you might furnish us with the context and provenance of your statistic that "80% of ...

    Jul 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Israel's military operations against Gaza

    Citation Needed. More to the point, being an 18 year old male (in many countries, still in your final year of school) doesn't make you a legitimate military target.

    Jul 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    You're barrelling down the rabbit hole at an unprecedented rate. Rubric, what you're saying is not dissent. Your opinion is the majority opinion. Homophobia, misogyny, racism, and the like are ...

    Jul 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    Lgbt+ pride events don't typically involve someone publicly calling for the death of straighties. Right, but even if I am talking theoretically, I'm also talking broadly about the interactions of ...

    Jul 14, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    Going back to one of Karz's early responses: A group without institutional power is not a threat to a group with institutional power. If a member of group X goes ...

    Jul 13, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    I'm not sure about that Rubric, I could have sworn this thread wasn't that old. Maybe it's a bug with the timestamps? No, there's actually a much more recent abortion ...

    Jul 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    As far as I can tell the last post in this thread was over a year ago. This is something of a thread necromancy.

    Jul 3, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay rights? (cont)

    That means if you're not and lgbt+ person, your job in a conversation like this is to listen and learn. It's not your job to contribute. If you're invited to ...

    Jun 24, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    The way that works is the ones weak for the environment adapt or die, we no longer need to worry about that. Lamarck was pretty demonstrably wrong about evolution within ...

    Jun 5, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Gattaca argument

    Environmental factors change, and the criteria for "fitness" shift with them; this has always seemed to me to be the great misunderstanding for genetic purists. In a changing environment, where ...

    Jun 5, 2014


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