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My favourite Kierkegaard quote is: "What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect? What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad? It's-a not so bad, it'...

You're just making things up. You could arbitrarily pick a number of good things we already possess and claim them to be the compensating good for evi...

Reality. You live in your own little world, where there's a God, and only God can damn people. That's not reality.

Sorry, I forgot where I was for moment there. In what sense is the thought experiment completely valid? It's possible, yet counterintuitive and unconv...

And what possible realistic scenario can you envision where, say, raping a baby prevents genocide? Let's keep it real. If your moral philosophy is far...

What reality must you live in for this to bear true? It must require a substantial disassociation, a denial, a rationalisation, a religious fervour.

You know it's true. (Or maybe you really don't, and are ignorant of what the typical reaction would be. Maybe you should crawl out from under that roc...

Okay. Have fun worshiping an imaginary God. I don't have a God. That's other people's problem.

If you're talking about the God of the Bible, then yes, there is a clear sense, supported by scripture, in which God is the God of humanity, over and ...

That's simply not true. You don't know what you're talking about. Why don't you go out, conduct a survey, and see what the results are? It's not mere ...

Sorry, I've been too busy hanging out, having a blether. How do you like kittens: fried, boiled, stewed, mashed...?

3) Discard what Jake just said. Jake is a single minded fanatic with scant appreciation for philosophy outside of his blinkered view of it.

At least there's an actual argument this time, although it's still lacking in succinctness. Basically, you're not presenting any new arguments here, y...

There's no relevant conclusion explicitly contained in your opening post, just some waffle in your idiosyncratic terminology, rendering your username ...

Of course, this is a discussion about the death penalty in contemporary American society. I'm not talking about Colonial America, the Wild West or the...

Okay, so it doesn't have to be expensive, because there are completely unrealistic alternative options which you guess were a lot cheaper, and which y...

Hi there, Doarley Downy! (And all of the ANGELS and of course the ANGEL Moderator). Sorry if my last response seemed a little sarcastic, that's just s...

You can stop commenting now. It's pointless. You've said what you think, and it counts for nothing. I don't want your nonsense littering the discussio...

Guess what? Fortunately it doesn't matter what you say! At least not in any developed nation, like here in the UK. We're a civilised nation.

Oh, right, it "simply needs an upgrade". Some of your comments are incredibly naive. Have you the slightest idea how complicated what you're talking a...

Yes, really. That's repulsive, brutish thinking which ought to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Stop using your relationship with someone...

Well it is in reality, and why should I simply take your word for it? You've fully costed a business plan which outdoes all of the competition within ...

It's not barbaric. What's the alternative? It would be more barbaric to let them loose to cause havoc in society. You can't have a civilised society w...

I like your impression of a rambling crackpot with poor grammar. Welcome to the forum.

No, I don't think that it suggests that at all. Memorisation techniques are an important part of studying. Just because it's about that doesn't mean t...

I didn't say, "Don't try to understand anything, just remember as much as you can!".

It's bad advice. It doesn't mean that you can't get good results that way, but it makes it harder, and even if you do achieve good results, chances ar...

You mean, if you're convicted of murdering a bunch of people in cold blood... And I've presented several reasons against it. It's expensive, it doesn'...

Definitely not, as you'll probably forget most of what you've ploughed through. See here. Disregard bad advice like that contained in the quote above.

You've got my vote. Do it.

It would be better not to let them go than to kill them.

Well, actually, when you think about it, there's no need to. Would you want your lounge exposed in public, or would you prefer some privacy?

Ha! I just spat my coffee out. If he has done so, it must have only been a temporary thing. His usual patterns are alive and well in that discussion.

Yes, it does. Thanks.

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You really haven't thought this one through, have you? You would need people to operate the machinery and to handle the convicted criminals. Remember ...

You have expressed the views of a brute, so what is to be your consequence?

What's that an argument for? No system is perfect. If he was sent to a psychiatric hospital, then there was probably evidence which was professionally...

But at least there's a system in place, even if in practice it's arguably corrupt. It's not supposed to be such that murder is whatever is in a person...

Yes, I might also. (If I was a depraved savage, which I'm not).

Deterrence and costs are substantial arguments against the death penalty, given that deterrence is one of the main reasons used to justify the death p...

Great reply. I don't think that I've said anything too difficult to get your head around. Like I said before, gender can be made sense of if you think...

There might be something to be said for an expensive, failed deterrent which has killed innocent people, and will likely continue to do so for as long...

:roll: No, Banno, that is not what I was suggesting. I'm giving my serious input on where the problem lies, and suggesting that it might help to think...

It's not that gender is incoherent, it's that it can be found to be so if overanalysed, like not seeing the wood for the trees. If you take a magnifyi...

No it's not. You might be using this legal term metaphorically, but that's not the same thing. For the same reason, abortion and collateral damage are...

Why can't things just be more convenient like they used to be in the good old days? Now I'm forced to tap on an icon to bring up a menu, tap on the ca...

Have you figured out whether or not you're alone yet? Or do you need to discuss it further with others? (Isn't this more of a psychological issue than...

Surely Trump is more like the scarecrow than Dorothy. Although the scarecrow wanted a brain, whereas Trump already thinks he has one.