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First of all, thanks to Griff for a well structured post. It gives us somewhere to move beyond a he-said/she-said. Wherethewindgoes: Wait a second. Why can't the mother consider neither ...

This is getting out of hand. Does a woman want to abort her pregnancy? Great, she can abort her pregnancy. It's not up to anyone to question why. But you ...

If I barrack for a sports team and deride the tactical decisions of a star forward as sub-optimal, I’m not challenging his legal right to make those decisions. If I ...

It's probably worth noting that the generally accepted lesson on prohibition is that criminalising the consumption and sale of alcohol isn't an effective long term method of reducing the consumption ...

I love that when you're on the back foot in an argument it's a collaborative learning environment, "If one more person is more aware of the problem that is US ...

Stop selling guns to toddlers? Seriously though, state based legislation, increased cultural awareness about responsible gun ownership and teaching children not to play with guns would all be reasonab

How should your post be read other than the age of the "professions" provides evidence that they are "not bad"? The phrase "In fact" implies that the second sentence should ...

"Oldest and most constant human behaviours" = "not bad" Didn't have you pegged as a Burkean conservative Karz.

Is this the same Australia that detains children indefinitely for the audacity of seeking asylum? The same Australia that removed children from their parents because they were of mixed blood? ...

He's actually quite articulate about his reasoning but will probably suffer a similar fate to Manning.

Your answer, Wonder, shows disgust for the natural human form. Not necessarily. To say that something has a time and a place is not to say that that thing is ...

I think you're misrepresenting the ambiguity of the term "genre" and how it's dealt with by critics. A quick wiki gives me this: A music genre or sub-genre may be ...

I'm not sure why music with religious themes is a different genre to the exact same music minus religion. Seems like plenty of justification to me. At it's most basic, ...

Self defense is quite broadly a legal defense to the charge of murder, whereas the criminal defenses of justification (it ought to have happened) or necessity (it needed to happen ...

Snoink is Stan Lee!