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Re: Video Games = New Age of Warfare
The problem with this is that the military would be entrusting hardware into the hands of kids. Would there be a minimum requirement of skill before a kid was given ...
May 12, 2008 -
Re: An Overveiw of Elves
Hey, I've chosen to critique this because a lot of my series revolves around elves, and some of your original ideas have a bit in common with mine. I have ...
May 12, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
So you're arguing that criminals should be killed to stop them being released due to a future political climate change? Has it occurred to you that if a less harsh ...
May 12, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
Ugh I see that I missed a half dozen posts when formulating the reply, that's more than irritating. I have to go, but before I do, Brad this man received ...
May 12, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
Brad, Perhaps I could bring myself to agree with you if it were the judiciary that drafted legislation. However, because it is the role of the politician; held responsible by ...
May 12, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
In other news, in the United States of America, the Law is ordained foremost from the Constitution, where I don't hesitate to observe the words "abhorrent," "moral," and/or "sensible" are ...
May 11, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
For a country that seems very intent on holding the rest of the world up to its standard, America seems very unwilling to be held up to the standard of ...
May 11, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
Brad, by bringing up the legality of certain actions in countries such as North Korea or China, you've shown an incomprehension of a differentiation between public and private morality that ...
May 11, 2008 -
Re: The Death Penalty
Hust throwing this one out there. One of the primary reasons for imprisonment is rehabilitation, which is evidentally absent from the death penalty. However rehabilitation as a theory of imprisonmnet ...
May 10, 2008 -
Re: Politics
Ok summing up the US electory issue (because we dont need a tangential argument here and I see one coming): Close election, comes down to Florida. - Democrats ask for ...
May 10, 2008 -
Re: Politics
Well played sir, *salutes*
May 9, 2008 -
Re: Politics
You can't blame the humans and not the human construct they compete in, that's ridiculous. Idealistic politicians will often become the jaded gerrymandering monsters they set out to battle because ...
May 9, 2008 -
Re: The freedom to lie?
Because the public is great at dissecting the truth. I mean, when the government lied to them they realised what was going on, waited for the UN weapons inspectors to ...
May 9, 2008 -
Re: Brisingr (Eragon 3) Spoiler
Firestar, surely you mean "want to read a book about how they wish their lives were"? Ooh ooh, does your avatar thingy-mabob mean you live in America. I'm posting my ...
May 9, 2008 -
Re: Hedonism
I know it my sound rather sacriligious, but why would one follow god's will anyway? Omnipotence would not imply either empathy or even wisdom. AS hard as you argue against ...
May 8, 2008
