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I predict the world will be around in 40 years, and I chastise you twice the amount you chastised me for flippantly rejecting a prediction.

Because you're not talking about a rotten limb hanging over your fence that is obviously going to fall fairly soon and that is going to predictably da...

And religiosity, which is probably a personality trait as well.

So 2050, 31 years from now is the end of times? I'll mark it on my calendar along with all the other end of times predictions that have come and gone.

@"Noah Te Stroete" It is always a shame when people can't be more like me. For clarification, is having a vagina a bad thing?

It's hardy that simple. The example of the Washington DC school system being a good example of heavy spending and poor results: https://www.heritage.o...

We all know with certainty we're going to die, so what is it that we do now as we march toward our death? Why should the remote possibility of starvat...

The cause of action you'd sue under is referred to as constructive eviction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_eviction

I didn't read your thread so can't weigh in, but if your thread contained similar insights as this^, I side against your oppressors.

Either the rocket makes it to the moon or it doesn't. If a study of nature that rejects the political views of Western society sends rockets straight ...

Yawn... Yes, much has been written on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_cult Here's a fairly comprehensive list of predicted apocal...

I voted no. My fear would be that pinned rules would not appear as helpful and educational, but they would be viewed as pedantic rules that must be ad...

I vote yay. It's like you opened up my soul and read the very words that described my being. Thank you for that. Thank you.

If they arrested those who hired illegal immigrants, there wouldn't be any. The wall is pretty much stupid, but I prefer it to another war. To those w...

I didn't go off on a tangent. It was directly responsive to your post. My point was that your Utilitarian approach could equally apply to the right, w...

So those with significant wealth ought advocate for laws to protect their wealth and those without significant wealth ought advocate for wealth distri...

Then go earn your billions.

If their influence is impenetrable, then we can't pass laws increasing their tax burden either.

If your primary goal in eliminating billionaires is to eliminate their corrupting influence, then pass laws controlling their influence, as opposed to...

You hypothesized that killing blonde haired babies was moral, so therefore it is. It's like if I asked you if you would say it was moral to kill blond...

Sure, if hypothetically 1+1=3, then it does. You've stipulated the impossible, so the impossible occurred. I get it, but why give your moral judgement...

If all the world believes it proper to kill all the blond haired babies, is it wrong? In this hypothetical, you too believe it's proper.

The distinction you make to support your pessimistic viewpoint is unclear (as all innovation takes advantage of other known technologies) and irreleva...

This is end of times talk, just from the left. Modern misery exists to be sure, but it doesn't hold a candle to ancient miseries.

In the 1970s, I'd dispute your claims by flipping through my Encyclopedia Britannica and hand writing you a well thought out letter that you'd get in ...

Applying existing anti- monopoly laws to the game of Monopoly would dramatically change the game, making the game not analogous to anything in real li...

Nice cross post.

I did not suggest that. I suggested that gender neutrality issues were ideological issues, and like socialism (another such example), should not be ta...

I've not mentioned Marx, but usually Marx isn't far behind in these conversations about gender. It usually goes down as some argument that the existin...

The Swedish study as described in the NY Times article I cited above seemed to relate to 1 and 2 year olds. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/world/e...

An anecdote. When my family visited Portland, Oregon some time ago, we encountered a 6 foot tall guy walking his dog, wearing a skirt and a bikini top...

Alright, so we leave math alone in a gender neutral society. The only thing I've seen that's in need of change is how we are to let our kids play in p...

What I said. This isn't what I'm referring to. If screaming at kids and using rote learning worked, I'd be in favor of it. When my son was young, I wo...

This is uncontroversial. No one is supportive of ignoring, ridiculing, and discouraging anyone, and no school I know of believes girls should be exclu...

Most private schools wear uniforms, but few public school do (and I have been previously informed that public and private are used in the reverse in t...

No, here's what actually happens. The schools stop teaching the basic nuts and bolts about the world and decide their role is social engineering. This...

I suppose if the topic came up, as it did here, in a generally open discussion format, there would be value to such discussion. I'm not sure how the s...

Well, let's properly represent things. The grand Swedish experiment appears to be limited to a handful of pre-school schools comprised of 1 to 2 year ...

It's a good tactic, but being on my A game today, I won't fall for the tactic of changing my mind for fear of being called unAmerican. I have no doubt...

It seems that everyone turns to Sweden to prove whatever liberal proposition they need to, which leads me to believe that it's pretty hard to fuck any...

The APA isn't a self contained group, interested in staying only in its own lane. They wish to exert political influence.

I disagree. If you avoid a moral judgment based upon the negative consequences, you're not Kantian.

I'm not trying to censor their beliefs, but more so just trying to relegate them to the role of jeering from the sideline. They can say whatever they ...

This discussion deals with what policy ought be adopted by a society in raising children, with the OP suggesting gender neutrality is a defensible obj...

These are the sorts of questions that divide the Kantianists from the Utilitarians. The former will allow the universe to burn to the ground before th...

Americans, don't you know, wish to be left alone to their own devices, permitted to do whatever they want? The offensiveness of seeing a boy clothed i...

Not to interrupt, but I agree that overuse is bad Yeah, that's what I was saying.

The church in Dover sounds nice, but there are a few problems. First, Dover is far away from me and I'm not sure it's worth the flight. Second, I was ...

A long post I know, but comprehensive I think. I take your subjective emotive position as primitive and undeveloped and rife with problems because it ...

This is non-responsive. The question was asked so that you could provide your basis so that I would know what you relied upon to determine that infant...