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Banning works on moral grounds is the mark of intellectual cowardice. This is particularly the case in categories where there are already restrictions on what can be depicted [such as ...

What do you think about the story Rainbow Fish? Should it be banned from elementary schools? Three points. 1) The obvious message of Rainbow Fish is not Marxist. That's the ...

Trigger Warning: Religious Content I can't help but wonder how much the Leviticus 19 reference suffers outside of its context. For instance, the "cutting" reference that prefaces the tattoos one ...

K4wa, what do you mean by "pure democracy"?

It would be barbaric to sentence someone to being raped as punishment for their crime, even if the crime was heinous, and the punishment was a large deterrence. However, we ...

One of the ideas that I encountered while reading around Hannah Arendt was the often unchecked assumption that there's a neatly proportional relationship between the evil of a person's character ...

Which Greece? The nation of Greece dates to the 19th century at the earliest, and from about 1831 was ruled by a branch of the Bavarian monarchy and from 1843 ...

When was the last time pure democracy or pure capitalism was practiced?

I think there are likely to be two discussions worth having here. 1] How offensive is the band-name "Viet Cong"? 2] What constitutes "censoring art"? I for one don't think ...

Bobgod you've made the error of mischaracterising this debate, which is primarily about the judgement at play in the flying of such a flag from a public monument or building. ...

Whether or not this conversation has been had, the specific points raised by Gravity deserve a thorough response. The confederate flag does not represent slavery, there were other major issues ...

[for the sake of posterity I would like to register my suspicion that "yayo" is some kind of chatbot being prepared for a turing-test simulation]

so now you already do not know this thing that who is your real father. but what is the meaning of such so called D.N.A test if you also do ...

My response would be that I would require some evidence supporting his claim that he is my father, such as the provision of a DNA sample for testing. I would ...

So I am to take it that you have no intention of clarifying this question: "and tell us that how child will understand this thing that who is his real ...