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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Who would you save?

    Blink whichever decision you take is selfish in its intent: if you choose the baby, you do it to avoid guilt and conform your versions of moral decency, just as ...

    May 17, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Catholic or Protestant

    It might be worth noting that to committ an act (or to committ yourself to a spiritual life) in the presence of your spiritual community is substantially different than doing ...

    May 17, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Bullying

    I've been the victim of bullying, and a prosecutor of it. It reflects a recklessness or negligence in regards to the dignity of the human spirit. It is not murder. ...

    May 13, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Views on Homosexuality

    I love Claire Hooper, and that banner (or rather, an identical one from an earlier rally), was one of the turning points for me in coming to support gay marriage. ...

    May 12, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Star Wars Prequels

    I think the prequels showed the real plot-holes in A New Hope. - Obi Wan hides Luke under his father's name (rather than say, Lars), in a home his father ...

    May 7, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Weapons on Planes

    Surely that has less to do with the Israeli Military and more to do with International Relations. I'm also not sure how this would relate to a government trusting its ...

    May 4, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are we still evolving?

    Kabloozleman, I think your race theory falls apart when there's less genetic variance between the "umbrella races" than within them, as you'd find most particularly with what you refer to ...

    May 3, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Weapons on Planes

    Keep in mind, getting a gun license doesn't mean you're a qualified law enforcement official. I can imagine one idiot pulling a gun on a flight because he didn't like ...

    May 3, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are we still evolving?

    I think it's a mistake to apply preconceptions of strength, fitness, and "more" or "less" advanced to evolutionary systems. The idea of "fitness" is completely reactive to the environment the ...

    May 1, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: I'm tired of religious people getting all up in my grill.

    Karzkin Heresy "an opinion of private men different from that of the catholick and orthodox church" [Johnson], c.1200, from O.Fr. heresie (12c.), from L. hæresis, "school of thought, philosophical se

    Apr 29, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Views on Homosexuality

    I suggest you move on from these personal comments.

    Apr 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: I'm tired of religious people getting all up in my grill.

    Uldin "I'd rather say "not exactly conservatively biblical. The message of the Gospel talks to individuals in different ways. For example, there are many serious theologians whose interpretation leads

    Apr 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Your Views on Homosexuality

    "It all started when she backslide from being a Christian. She then got into going to gaybars with gay friends, then out of the blue, she's bi. She isn't in ...

    Apr 26, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Effects Of Teen "Sexting" (Dont Do It!!!!)

    "I think child pornography is wrong, yes. But I don't think you can really call it child pornography when they've given their consent or even sent it out themselves." Can ...

    Apr 22, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is a boy who openly supports terrorism right or wrong?

    From the limited access we get in the first source to the kind of support being offered, I'd say this is acceptable, if dissappointing. I'd draw on John Stuart Mill's ...

    Apr 22, 2012


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