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The right have a tendency to be just as moralistic and lacking in humour as the left, if not more so. So I don't agree. Think pro-life or views on gay...

I don't know about that. I realise that you were making a generalisation, but Margaret Thatcher wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, and two of my favou...

You've probably read a lot more than I have on this topic, but the one book I've been going back to makes me doubt any more moderate proposals. For ex...

You agreed to those words yourself in a previous comment on the previous page only hours ago. You said "Yes, that's my stand". :-} The real question i...

That's all you have to say in reply, is it? Funny how you seem to be suggesting that you know nothing, yet you also claim to understand God to a signi...

Oh. Well, your criticisms were directed at leftists, and I identify as a leftist - although not as you describe.

Like the one I referred to twice. And yet, I am on the left. Remarkable. Perhaps it's wrong to make hasty generalisations about the left, eh Thorongil...

I can't get the theme tune from Sister, Sister out of my head. Help. It's been popping into my head for days.

Only some, and they do with that last one, at least with regards to morality and culture. I don't agree with any of the other claims.

>:O Very funny. "The rat will never be the horse." "Well, if he works very hard..." "No."

I wouldn't go as far as advocating a government planned economy, although I don't completely rule that out. I'm just very sceptical of it, given its f...

Pray really hard. And if that doesn't work, sacrifice Agustino to the gods. And if neither of those work. Click the square picture icon above where yo...

Castro's rallying cry was "Socialism or death!". Yours would be something like "Socialism! But everything else first!".

Paradoxically, the right cause is the left cause. (You're too far to the right, and are not a true leftie).

If that day ever comes, I will move abroad. Or maybe attempt an assassination. :D

If someone like you were running the country (touch wood), I would most certainly be a lot more politically active.

That's outrageous. (Yeah, yeah - butt-hurt liberal, whatever).

Predicable. Look, why don't you do your own research, if you haven't already, and make your own mind up about him? I qualified my comments by saying t...

I agree with that. Even if I was guaranteed to go through all of that successfully, for me, it would simply not be worth the bother. Fuck that. Fuck e...

I'm in a sort of middle ground between pro-choice and pro-life, and am anti-Pruitt, so, in a nutshell, sometimes choosing death is acceptable, and bro...

Really? Can't you just look him up. He has been described as a fierce critic of the very agency that he is now heading, the Environmental Protection A...

That uncharitable characterisation is itself based on an uncharitable characterisation. I never said that Scott Pruitt is pro-death. But he does pose ...

This is actually false or misleading when it comes to the topic we've been discussing, as evidenced in that book I referred to earlier: Many scientist...

If that's what makes you sleep at night...

But both of those are irrelevant to my point. I never argued that it was more certain than predictions about what would happen if a pregnant woman had...

It's not a remote possibility. Shall I quote you what some of the authorities on this have said? That makes sense to me, but when it comes to the topi...

No, I don't that think that we were being uncharitable, I think that you just worded it poorly, so as to suggest something you didn't mean to suggest....

You seemed to suggest multiple times that certainty is such a requirement. That's how I understood your comments, and that also seems to be how Michae...

Spot on.

But you haven't actually answered some of those key points. Your example with the monkey and geometry is just a reiteration of your argument which I'v...

I don't consider that to be a proper reply, since you've avoided parts of my reply, your reply is too short, you've made bald assertions without expla...

I don't think that that quote should be taken quite so literally. I very much doubt that he meant that it's impossible to understand quantum mechanics...

No, you haven't. The problem isn't directed at everyone. Just because you might have found a way in which it is not a problem for you, that doesn't me...

This issue could easily be resolved if you only mean that you don't understand these these things. But if you go further than that and claim that you ...

I wonder how many atheists actually fit his description, or how many would agree with what he presupposes about them. I, for one, do not think of eith...

Isn't it amusing that you can quote Agustino to argue against Agustino? :D "To claim stuff with your certainty is nothing but idiocy" - Agustino.

As you say, that's going against their country, but in its best interests. I'm loyal to the best interests of my country, but not loyal to my country ...

Haven't you done just that when the joke has been about something you disapprove of, like abortion? Or, do you no longer have a gripe with the likes o...

But it can't be that important to you. Otherwise that would be yet another reason why you should not have voted for Trump if you had've had the chance...

It's an informed prediction based on evidence. I never claimed certainty, but there is reason enough to be very concerned. You don't even know who Sco...

I don't mean to be rude, but did your reply really need to be that lengthy? The key point of our disagreement is semantic: about what it means to be l...

Sure, it isn't certain - doesn't need to be. It also isn't just someone - it's Scott Pruitt. And it also isn't just an appointment - it's an appointme...

Speculative certainty? I don't need to speculate and I don't need to be certain. The evidence is sufficient. And be inconsistent. Well, go ahead, laug...

You don't have an answer? Shortsighted. Pretty sure I mentioned future generations.

So you find this a laughing matter, but not jokes about abortion? Even though both are literally a matter of life and death? How is this consistent wi...

Less than 24 hours ago, news reports began to appear that Scott Pruitt has been sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Scott Pruitt,...

So, when you made those statements about God, you were either playing devil's advocate or you've retracted them, and you don't want to say which it is...

You don't say? That was a pointless comment. Obviously I don't believe that it is a valid counterexample for a reason, and it is that reason, rather t...

Okay, now you seem to be contradicting yourself. You said that the form of loyalty itself is what I adhere to and not the country. Am I loyal to my co...

I missed these replies. I simply didn't see your remarks against Hanover. They did escape my notice. I haven't read much of this discussion and I didn...