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Can cats go? If they can, then that should solve a lot of the problems inherent in human dissatisfaction while traveling interstellarly.
June 09, 2019 at 17:05
Starting here, at a point of agreement, are you willing to concede that had Noa's parents or had a judge intervened on her behalf and she still lived ...
June 09, 2019 at 16:52
Why lean toward death? How do you know? You've never been to Alabama.
June 07, 2019 at 20:15
Why? @"Benkei" says otherwise.
June 07, 2019 at 15:26
I don't doubt she suffered terribly. I question the objective conclusion, which is whether she could expect recovery that might relieve her of what is...
June 07, 2019 at 15:17
From the same article: "Right to refuse treatment You have the right to refuse medical treatment, including medication, unless ordered by a court. But...
June 07, 2019 at 15:13
Her parents did complain about the year it took to provide her treatment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48541233
June 07, 2019 at 15:06
: All kinds of interventions for enteral or parenteral feeding against the will of the mentally competent hunger striker are “to be considered as “for...
June 07, 2019 at 15:00
If you're a danger to yourself, you can have care forced upon you: https://www.educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/forced-hospitalization-three-types As a gene...
June 07, 2019 at 14:53
It's clear the initial reporting was inaccurate, so the question now rests in the hypothetical. That Noa's case can be distinguished as having been in...
June 07, 2019 at 14:44
My guess ( and I could be wrong) is that you over simplify the prohibition against forced medical care in The Netherlands, as I assume there is a way ...
June 07, 2019 at 11:01
You present this like it's common sense and well thought out, but really it's just you refusing to engage. We don't abort 8 month old fetuses and we d...
June 06, 2019 at 22:44
Yes, with the primary exception being when the person suffers from mental illness.
June 06, 2019 at 21:46
Yeah, well life's complicated and I get to weigh in.No worries. Do as you must.
June 06, 2019 at 21:42
It's not even worth speaking, but just a gesture.
June 06, 2019 at 21:36
Belief is necessary for knowledge. It's basic epistemology.
June 06, 2019 at 21:32
Generally laws apply to other people too, which allows us to stick our noses into the affairs of other's. What you allow your daughter to do and what ...
June 06, 2019 at 21:09
I'm more just rolling with the punches as it appears she might not have been euthanized. I can't seem to get a good real life example, but must resort...
June 06, 2019 at 21:05
Mazel tov as we non-Christians say. A Universalist is a Christian who believes everyone goes to heaven no matter what. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
June 06, 2019 at 15:28
The problem rests in trying to distinguish her wishes from her current illness. Her 17 year old mental state could well be temporary, but her decision...
June 06, 2019 at 12:37
I took your post to question my motives, as if I truly don't care about the traumatized, but I'm just more interested in promoting my brand of conserv...
June 06, 2019 at 12:31
A very poor post, prattling on about non-existent race based interpretations of Nietzche. Really terrible. The concocted stats were an added touch of ...
June 06, 2019 at 03:09
How to generically deal with trauma isn't a philosophical question.
June 05, 2019 at 20:45
The point remains that one is not faced with the choice of either laissez faire or Marxism. It's a false dichotomy. There are 1000s of points in betwe...
June 05, 2019 at 20:39
I'm responding to your posts, not Marx. Libertarianism or Marxism is a false dichotomy.
June 05, 2019 at 17:15
The only thing separating yourself from suicide after being raped is a hot shower?
June 05, 2019 at 16:17
Is my sphere just my immediate family, my extended family, my whole tribe, or my entire race?
June 05, 2019 at 15:58
How does it protect me to jump in a lake to save someone?
June 05, 2019 at 15:55
Your principle demands allowing the sinking to drown, both literally and figuratively. Watching people drown seems an odd way to express your pro-life...
June 05, 2019 at 13:41
It would be crazier to ignore the literally of hundreds of other cites simply because Fox reported the same thing too. Obviously Fox wasn't the first ...
June 05, 2019 at 11:47
I agree, but legislation can have unintended consequences. I do gain some comfort in knowing that there's a nation reckless enough to be the guinea pi...
June 04, 2019 at 23:17
Or not. It's not like you get a do over if you choose euthanasia and we're wrong.
June 04, 2019 at 23:10
It was euthanasia, not suicide. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9221159/depressed-girl-17-dies-at-euthanasia-clinic-in-holland-after-suffering-unbearabl...
June 04, 2019 at 23:07
The unfairness is that boys can just tie it in a knot and wait until they get home, but girls have to go right away. For that reason. I think girls sh...
June 04, 2019 at 19:33
George III was crazy, not II. Close. So fucking close.
June 03, 2019 at 22:01
"Georgian English" suggests the aristocratic langauge of royalty, and I'm not sure I'm deserving of that. I do think George II was a nut job, though, ...
June 03, 2019 at 21:59
"Fuck" is vulgar and it is profane because that's what vulgar means right now, regardless of how the ancient Romans spoke.
June 03, 2019 at 21:54
I've never been a huge fan. Too many yankees.
June 03, 2019 at 12:59
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June 02, 2019 at 22:06
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June 02, 2019 at 22:06
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June 02, 2019 at 22:05
Happy birthday 364 days early.
June 02, 2019 at 22:03
Even assuming the analogy apt (i.e. that it is as much fraud for a gizmo seller to sell an ineffective gizmo to you as it is for a politician to obtai...
May 31, 2019 at 13:11
This is the dualist's quandary: How does the conscious affect the body and vice versa. I don't think this should lead us to wonder whether rocks have ...
May 30, 2019 at 20:16
It's not interesting because it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous to assert that maybe rocks have experiences, even if you wish to admit their experiences...
May 30, 2019 at 20:10
The scientific record doesn't support a theory of higher and lower order rocks where marble, for example, can be shown to have ancient granite ancesto...
May 30, 2019 at 20:06
I don't see this as fraud. Fraud would entail falsification of data or results that would deceive those critically evaluating the information. If I sa...
May 30, 2019 at 13:15
So this conversation isn't interesting. It is based upon the false premise that you cannot decipher a meaningful difference between rock behavior and ...
May 30, 2019 at 13:01
The behavior of a rock differs not so slightly from the behavior of a person. I understand that every object is subject to physical laws, but surely y...
May 30, 2019 at 12:53
Are you suggesting you don't know you're communicating with a conscious being and wonder if I might be a rock? Since you can decipher my behavior from...
May 29, 2019 at 23:31