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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Sex-selective Abortion

    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 ...

    Jun 23, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Sex-selective Abortion

    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 ...

    Jun 18, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Drugs in general

    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 ...

    Jun 17, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: *Should Guns Be Outlawed in America?*

    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 ...

    Jun 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: *Should Guns Be Outlawed in America?*

    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

    Jun 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public Nudity

    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 ...

    Jun 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public Nudity

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

    Jun 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: *Should Guns Be Outlawed in America?*

    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? ...

    Jun 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: PRISM and the NSA

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

    Jun 12, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Public Nudity

    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 ...

    Jun 8, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Influence of Rap Culture on Society

    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 ...

    Jun 7, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Influence of Rap Culture on Society

    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, ...

    Jun 6, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Men hitting women in general vs. Self defence?

    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 ...

    Jun 4, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The real bible

    Snoink is Stan Lee!

    Jun 2, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Evolution and the Future of Humans

    Going to have to side with Letiki on this one. Unless the efficacy of map-reading/fish-catching directly impacts on the success rate of surviving and producing offspring, then I can't see ...

    Jun 1, 2013


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