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I wouldn't really see any point in that Ducati: the information is freely available on the net and someone would probably attract more attention borrowing or buying the book on ...

And what happens when we extrapolate from the banning of nazi literature? Sure, ban Lenin's memoirs, Mussolini's scribings; but where to from there? In the name of civil order and ...

I can understand why Mein Kampf might be censored in large areas of europe and elsewhere, but personally I'd like to read it just to hear the argument. It's the ...

It's after new years, I've been waiting to see how this one would turn out :P. To deal with the kind of conceptual issues that have been highlighted, surely coexistance ...

Hmm to be honest I'm sick of the old "what if it was the next Einstein/Hitler" arguments, but given that by definition an aborted child is an unwanted (or at ...

Manny I'm pretty sure medicine has a higher success rate. So I think they aren't equal at all. In pure statistical terms, God would have a 100% success rate, as ...

Surely interference in civil liberties is only justified to the extent that it creates even greater civil liberties (imprisoning a sociopath so that they can't kill other people).

No sane person willingly committs acts that they see as inherently or irredeemably evil. The insane are not held criminally culpable for their actions (except for sociopaths who are considered ...

- The Nazis were criminals The Nazis didn't break many laws that had jurisdiction over them, which was one of the reasons the nuremburg trials were such a farce. Natural ...

Because surely they did not intend to have their culture destroyed...I mean that's just common sense. It would be like asking why we leave room for the BC/AD calender to ...

1: How many US citizens are in Guantanomo/what percentage is this of the overall prison population? 2: Has the US ever recognised habeus corpus for non US citizens?

The desire of a mother (yes, it is desire even though it may have been borne out of the terrible situation of rape) never can trump the life of a ...

but if say a girl gets raped in high school, she should be able to get an abortion, it wasn't her choice. So yeah... We come back to the same ...

But the only way the human race has ever moved is forward I guess you spoke too soon Smorgishborg :(

Keep in mind the difference between alowing some to die, to rescue many (the two islands example) and actually killing a few to save many (Speluncean Explorers!) So yes.