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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discrimination of LGBT community

    Be thankful for this. Not everybody is this lucky! Although the social bias against the LGBT... community is outrageous and terrible, let's not be too quick to pass judgement on ...

    Nov 21, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Transgender Day of Rememberance

    Never actually heard about this day until today, actually! I'm going to have to side with Aria and say that I wish this wasn't a thing because nobody should be ...

    Nov 21, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discrimination of LGBT community

    Like Snoinkus said, the bare minimum not-actively-homophobic stuff is actually harmful. There is no neutral ground. You are complicit in your silence. Those who are neutral have chosen the side ...

    Nov 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Discrimination of LGBT community

    I am glad someone mentioned the "I'm straight but--" part. That kind of bugged me. >.> I also think that the whole saying "I support" bit is a bit useless. ...

    Nov 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: What would you say in a letter to the President of the U.S.A

    In this assignment, do you actually send the letter to Obama, or does your letter get graded? And what class is this for? If it's for some sort of social ...

    Nov 14, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Legalization of prostitution

    @magpie: I would still be against it, because I am not sure how the ideas can really change behind it. :? Perhaps something like this might be good for a ...

    Nov 13, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Assisted Suicide

    @StellaThomas, isn't that kind of delegitimizing mental illness as a real condition that is full of suffering and pain? I mean, if you're going to say that people who suffer ...

    Nov 3, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: F-Bombs for Feminists video

    The thing is, getting children to say these things using bad language is an exploitation of them. This is no new thing... children are used to advertise many things, like ...

    Oct 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: F-Bombs for Feminists video

    Au contraire ! If it weren't very creative, why are we discussing it in the first place? ;) It is catchy! Catchy enough that we're giving it our time discussing ...

    Oct 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: F-Bombs for Feminists video

    @DudeMcGuy, I thought their intended audience was females in the age range of tweens to women in their young/mid twenties, or those with a very focused feminist agenda? I mean, ...

    Oct 27, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: "Bad books" for children

    I'm going to let my child read what she wants to and not pooh-pooh her choices. Just because she may not like to read what I like to read doesn't ...

    Oct 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: do you believe in the supernatural/paranormal?

    For those who are interested in how the number 6000 came about, here is an explanation. Basically, it came from a Roman Catholic Archbishop named Ussher in the 17th century. ...

    Oct 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: F-Bombs for Feminists video

    The description on the video says this: Facing a future where women are still paid 23% less than men for the same work, and where 1 in 5 women are ...

    Oct 25, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    Eh... this might sound a little horrible, but I think that, when you're a parent, either through adoption or biologically, you always, always, always have to keep the best interests ...

    Oct 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    I guess my issue goes further from how I'd raise my child and more into the problem of society and how it would be seen, and how that kind of ...

    Oct 19, 2014


The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices; to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicions can destroy. A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own.
— Rod Serling, Twilight Zone