The unfertilized egg and the sperm have about the same status in terms of life. They each carry 1/2 the chromosomes needed for a whole human. The sper...
They're marketing their product to a diverse population. These are private companies. They can do whatever they like within the law. If you dont like ...
I see. You should probably go with the largest version of abortee when pondering what's actually happening, right? It has fingernails. It can and does...
Every sperm is sacred? I'm a full blown moral nihilist today, so I can only look at that anthropologically. What more is humanity than a squiggling fu...
A panpsychist would be comfortable with "embodied cognition." We do experience the world. The universe experiences itself via us. Drop the mysticism a...
Blastocysts embed in the endometrium after 11 days. Prior to that, she doesn't know she's pregnant, after that, the blastocyst won't come out. We have...
I agree with most of what you said. We cant outlaw racist feelings. We can strike down racist laws and protect the rights of US citizens, which means ...
Yes. And in the process wounds were inflicted. Some wounds take a long time to heal. You cant make them go away by asserting that they shouldn't have ...
Religions often ritually reinforce group-melding. There's usually a single voice whose message is repeated with the same words, rhythm, and pitch by t...
The former quote appears to be a warning against profiling white cops. There's nothing alt-right about that. In the latter quote he's questioning whet...
I recently met a woman whose husband and mother had died. She was sick and had to take care of her children so couldn't rest. I asked her if she could...
Right, but the fact that part of the population is sensitive to moral issues becomes politics. It reminds me of war between Carthage and Rome where ea...
There probably is a Christian sect somewhere that claims God is a doughnut. Instead of handling snakes and speaking in tongues, they hang out at Krisp...
@"StreetlightX" If you get a second, what do you think of this perspective on morality in politics? Moore is typical of American liberals; emotional, ...
The US tends to produce do-gooders. A less famous example is Herbert Hoover, who felt it was important to lead a multi-national team to rescue starvin...
That's cool. If there was ever a situation where I could just bitch slap Pat Buchannan in slow motion (with numerous angles on the saliva spewing from...
I think you have to have a fairly strong middle-class before programs like affirmative action can create change. There's a downside to them also since...
The world isn't perfect. It's never going to be perfect except for a couple of hours on a Tuesday afternoon in March of 2356 C.E. when nobody will eve...
I think affirmative action was intended to boost social reform. To the extent that it put minorities in good housing and schooling, it was treating on...
If I didnt have a low form of argument I wouldn't have any argument at all. But I'm the opposite of you. I've ended up liking some of the Trump-effect...
It's like we're each trying to look past what the other is saying in order to grasp how the train went off the track. Like psychoanalysts we say "You ...
The only people who don't agree with what NOS42 states there are racists. NOS4A2 has a history of ridiculous trolling, so a casual glance at the OP le...
It's both a cause and an effect. Block a minority's path to wealth and influence, then point to their diminished status as proof of their poor charact...
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