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It depends on your goals. The more intent I am on demonstrating obvious truths or changing uninformed opinions the more frustrated I tend to get by the outcome. Positive outcomes ...

But there is a clear difference to the violence I'm talking about here with the one made as punishment by the Sharia Law. Using violence to your advantage in the ...

You can stop calling it violence if it is simply a form of punishment of the Sharia Law to someone who commits crime. The violence I was talking about was ...

I'm sorry then, because I've clearly misunderstood. For the purpose of this discussion, at what point does violence stop being violence? A hanging is violent, whether a man is sentenced ...

Any system of belief that is not pacifistic promotes violence. Furthermore a system of belief can easily include both a promotion of forgiveness and kindness in some contexts, and a ...

I appreciate the analogy Ferranwright, but I do feel driven to point out that the source you used to support your point in regards to me is wildly inaccurate. I ...

Banning works on moral grounds is the mark of intellectual cowardice. This is particularly the case in categories where there are already restrictions on what can be depicted [such as ...

What do you think about the story Rainbow Fish? Should it be banned from elementary schools? Three points. 1) The obvious message of Rainbow Fish is not Marxist. That's the ...

Trigger Warning: Religious Content I can't help but wonder how much the Leviticus 19 reference suffers outside of its context. For instance, the "cutting" reference that prefaces the tattoos one ...

K4wa, what do you mean by "pure democracy"?

Have you considered using other mythologies? You can even "re-skin" them with angelic symbolism. Hindu Devas/Rakshasa would also provide a bit of the dualism you're talking about, as would Zoroastrian

It would be barbaric to sentence someone to being raped as punishment for their crime, even if the crime was heinous, and the punishment was a large deterrence. However, we ...

One of the ideas that I encountered while reading around Hannah Arendt was the often unchecked assumption that there's a neatly proportional relationship between the evil of a person's character ...

Which Greece? The nation of Greece dates to the 19th century at the earliest, and from about 1831 was ruled by a branch of the Bavarian monarchy and from 1843 ...

When was the last time pure democracy or pure capitalism was practiced?