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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How do you solve a problem like the global food crisis?

    The answer comes down to a better distribution of wealth. While there will always be class divide (there have been numerous failed attempts at communism throughout the world), improving the ...

    Jun 9, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: Male vs. Female Teachers

    I tend to prefer my male teachers, but that's just because my nerdy interests are mannish. XD I think it's just that male teachers tend to be edgier, funnier, and ...

    Jun 5, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    If "the people" decide they want less capital punishment, then democracy is intended to make that wish become law. But "the people"--or the majority of them--don't want that. To be ...

    May 12, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    I think the point I'm trying to make is that America is defensive and isolationist. Irritating as it may be to the rest of the world, it's just how we ...

    May 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    Most other "developed" nations have gun control laws. The United States does not; hence, we need a way to deal with violent crime, and the death penalty is one way ...

    May 11, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty

    I think it's kind of funny that most of the people who are against it don't live in the US. Call it indoctrination, but I have one thing to address ...

    May 10, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Pornography

    We've established that addiction occurs no matter of moral conviction, so the question remains: should things that are addictive be illegal?

    May 7, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Pornography

    I would also like to see a testimonial that is not in anyway affiliated with a church group. I think that religion is a beautiful thing, and I am a ...

    May 6, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Bisexuality: straight, gay, or lying?

    Quote: The Church of England has gay vicars. We do? Since when? [I hope this is still relevant: I attend an Anglican church, and we have both a gay and ...

    May 6, 2008
  • Lounge, The Re: An Asylum Seeker Life: £46

    The anti-government leaflets gives this case an interesting twist, but in countries that use Islamic Shari'a (religious laws), many homosexuals seek asylum in other countries. I'm not for certain abou

    Apr 29, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Different Beliefs

    For the record, religion is philosophically a nominal idea--it's a perfect thing that humans screw up, basically. So therefore, by definition Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism, Islam, Judaism...they're all

    Apr 23, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Children Being Diagnosed

    Autism and ADHD are completely different disorders. However, ADHD is occurring with more frequency than ever before because the children who have it are actually being diagnosed. The problem comes ...

    Apr 15, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Children Being Diagnosed

    No, no. It's like with autism--a hundred years ago, the diagnosis was "you don't hug them enough--you're being a bad parent". In the days before child psychology was understood, the ...

    Apr 15, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Circumsition: Right or Wrong?

    Vern...quite frankly, if it weren't so "rife with tradition" for European males to not have the operation, you'd be all for it as well. This is kind of a strange ...

    Apr 4, 2008
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is homosexuality a psychological disorder or is it inate?

    It's probably been articulated in this thread before, but (if you're a straight person) why would you want to be gay? It's setting yourself up for a life of snide ...

    Apr 4, 2008


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