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Sylrie

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Who is to blame for the riots? The Police or the Protesters?

    My views on the matter. The police, in essence, started the protests due to hyper-violent means of arrests. This happened with George Floyd, who was suffocated to death when an ...

    Oct 1, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    @spunkyspacekitty I'm sorry, but I will no longer be responding to you. You have made it exceedingly clear that you aren't interested in having any degree of an actual discussion. ...

    Oct 1, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    hey guess what @spunkspacekitty Laws that serve as a punishment for a crime are deterrents. They don't stop the thing from happening , they punish a person after the fact. ...

    Sep 30, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    You say you have compassion for women, but then you say that the already traumatizing nature of rape isn't justification to remove a clump of cells from a first trimester ...

    Sep 30, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    @spunkyspacekitty First: there are people who don't understand basic human anatomy due to abstinence only sex ed teaching, well, abstinence only. It's truly shocking the degree to which some people ...

    Sep 29, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    @Stringbean all of those are valid points, and that was the brunt of my argument. The nature of what is in the womb is subject to far too much debate ...

    Sep 29, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    Two more things @TeyaKnife First, the assertion that the fetus can feel their limbs being ripped apart. Wow, that is primed with so much emotional tone, so I do hope ...

    Sep 29, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    You seem to misunderstand, I am not interested in debating whether or not the act of abortion is comparable to murdering a child. As I've stated multiple times, the decision ...

    Sep 27, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    @spunkyspacekitty first of all, you're taking on a rather hostile tone here. You have only vaguely addressed one overarching point (incorrectly, at that), then not so much suggested that I ...

    Sep 27, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    My views on this have changed slightly, so here's my updated view: First, to determine the moral correctness of abortion is an entirely subjective matter. The line could be drawn ...

    Sep 27, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Coronavirus

    Should we blame China? Wellll it's debatable. The only solid thing we could pin on China could be the idea that they didn't prevent infected people from leaving their borders, ...

    Aug 22, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Politics

    While I'll disagree on the socialism v capitalism bit, I entirely agree that both parties are extremely prone to lobbyists and corruption. The only exception I could theoretically find would ...

    Aug 13, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Politics

    @Necromancer14 Those people still support Sanders. The problem is that many who would have voted Sanders into being the Democrat presidential candidate felt forced to instead support Biden, simply bec

    Aug 12, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Politics

    @Necromancer14 that isn't necessarily the case. In our current system, the only reason we're seeing extreme right positions being met by moderate left positions (or even right leaning Democrats) is ...

    Aug 12, 2020
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Politics

    Our current system of voting actually lends itself to forcing people to vote for the one most likely to win, rather than who they actually want to win. Trump, in ...

    Aug 12, 2020


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch