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tnme, does this mean you don't believe the exert's you reference didn't happen as they are literally portrayed?

Natural rage? I mean, yeah I squished ants as a kid, but there was no rage there. Rage is a reaction to unjust treatment (whatever you conceive that to be), ...

But what if we are taught to measure good and evil by a different standard? By your logic, a man taught that genocide and rape are *good* (or at least ...

Ah but Mantis, do you have to understand an action you commit is evil for it to be evil? It's easier to accept that our environment insills in us a ...

By the very use of the word *evil* (if not the fact that the debaters on these threads usually assume it), I assume we are considering *evil* as defined in ...

250....I got rid of all my childrens books other than artemis fowl, harry potter, narnia and the series of unfortunate events...I had hundred of those. But yeah 250.

Volant And, really, anything can be considered abuse. Anything. That instance I talked about earlier where the dad accidentally killed his son by putting him in time out is definately ...

In other words, why have the bible, just create your own morals? No. In other words, why have the bible if you only fit it within your own moral code ...

Yes Thunderdude, they have authority; but why? Surely authority is derived from a reason, a root moral or intellectual point that you can brandish at me in victory? Parents have ...

Within the dichotomy of allegorical or literal translation, then yes that does make sense. Of course the very idea that you know which is the better course between the two ...

*sigh* I think I understand why sarcasm is banned on the debate threads; if nothing else it isn't worth the censure. (No offence intended, this is purely self-recriminatory). And no ...

Entschuldigung Volant for the breach of etiquette. I would maintain that sarcasm would be only as inappropriate so far as it is a straw-man argument; which I don't believe to ...

Hmmm I'm starting to agree with all of these advocates for the odd smack. Honestly I can't see why we limit this to children. I mean, There's this friend of ...

Yay another point of view I can disagree with! Genetecists have identified markers for genes that create a predisposition toward certain modes of behaviour, e.g the "evil gene". While social ...

Just to break into this one: personal experience tells me that people don't want to kill each other. I don't have the urge to kill; even the people I despise ...