Rubric

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." Henry David Thoreau

So the first article makes a point that isn't limited to gun violence, but really any violence that Heath ledger's Joker would classify as "part of the plan". It's an ...

I reject the term "world police" for two reasons. 1) It implies consent on the part of the world "policed" by the US. 2) It implies the US interventions are ...

Read that back to yourself. It's a terrible argument. It's an analogy that's based on the principle of difference rather than the principle of similarity. It's so inductive it hurt ...

But somehow people were convinced to ban a fairy tale. In Schools . The government intervening in the private sector (let alone the home) is completely different from a government ...

Someone somewhere had the political will to ban Little Red Riding Hood, and was able to convince a bunch of other people the same. Surely if someone has the rhetorical ...

Does the district superintendent have the authority to ban the AR-15? The bans come from distinct authorities, so I'm not sure it's appropriate to imply the hypocrisy at play. Having ...

Right. But it's not a federal ban, it's a local school district.

Enema I’m going to try and avoid the point by point rebuttals, as they tend to get procedural and disjointed. A theme I’m getting from your points is that the ...

now depending on which side you have chosen to affiliate yourself with will also determine which side you will grant the focus of concern. I feel like this is backwards. ...

This hypothetical raises an interesting question--what about multiples, like triplets, quadruplets, etc.? If a society imposed a two child limit, what would become of excess children from a multiple b

Sigh. Rubric, telling someone that they CAN'T terminate their pregnancy is a whole lot different than saying "according to my model of ethical virtues, I don't think you should/have you ...

"Wish you could terminate your pregnancy? -- Tough luck, sugar. You're up for a vaginal stretch, cause you're carrying someone more important and more worthy of my concern within your ...

NoNinjas I recommend that at least a 2 child limit should be imposed. I doubt Western countries would have an issue with gender-related abortions as our culture although slightly male-orientated ...

Karzkin Rubric, I don't understand what you're trying to say in your first sentence about war. You used the term “literal impossibility”. My point was reflecting that you either did ...