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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is There Democracy in the US?

    What absolutely baffles me is that you’d turn to the Roman Empire to argue your point, when almost every aspect of the model you’re talking about has far more relevant ...

    Oct 11, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is There Democracy in the US?

    What is democracy, precisely?

    Oct 3, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Depictions of Muhammad in media

    Lives are the most important thing, so simple, don't show images of him, and slowly influence the culture away from murdering people for stupid reasons. Which should be done everywhere ...

    Sep 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: New Debate Forum Rules

    I for one welcome the removal of meme-based debating.

    Sep 19, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Personhood

    Every passing day brings us closer to making contact with an extraterrestrial species, and then theories of personhood only relating to humans are completely blown away. [Citation Needed] But what ...

    Sep 17, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Would you steal another's novel?

    ^ But that's not the same as passing it off as your own. I mean, Christopher Tolkien finished his father's work after J.R.R died, but he never claimed that any ...

    Sep 17, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Termination of Pregnancy due to foetal abnormalities

    What I'm getting from this is that the women's rights movement is basically Hitler.

    Sep 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?

    Zolen Conceptually, "freedom" is probably at its strongest when defined negatively, as freedom "from" various things. By acknowledging that death is not the answer to murder, you're acknowledging that

    Sep 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Would UKIP be good for the UK?

    I think it might be more accurate to say that Farage opposes Gay Marriage so long as it takes place under the jurisdiction of an EU court, and that if ...

    Sep 7, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Fanfiction Debate

    Spotswood I think you're paying a little too much attention to the trappings of legitimacy, which I feel have more to do with commerce than matters of artistic nuance. There's ...

    Sep 4, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Fanfiction Debate

    I'm a fantasy writer. Almost the entirety of my genre is fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off. Should I somehow denigrate those who choose to skip the process of ...

    Sep 3, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?

    Sir Bearington?

    Aug 31, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Critical acclaim or commercial success?

    Commercial success might let me write full-time. Critical acclaim might get me invited to an awards dinner with a bunch of people who attend literary award dinners. I'll take the ...

    Aug 29, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?

    1) How does the anti-hand movement interact with wrongful findings of guilt (for instance, later overturned by new evidence, or a new suspect). 2) What does such a violently retributive ...

    Aug 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is it wrong to murder a murderer?

    I think it basically falls within a wider umbrella of questions that might be titled the: "When is ok to treat human beings like they aren't actually human beings?" questions, ...

    Aug 25, 2014


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