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We have since learned though that there is a natural right to abort one's child, inherent in the very concept of liberty, so why shouldn't we also con...

The buzzwords of the left used against the right are "racist," "biggot," "paranoid," "priviledged," "anti-intellectual," to name a few. All of this is...

These oversimplifiers should just be called racists so we'll know what they are. Irony is intended here. While perhaps you can prove there are those w...

"X" is Y is true if we define "X" as Y. Seems obvious. Have I misunderstood the OP?

Actually the website says there are 33 million Irish Americans and 6.7 million Irish in Ireland. The few left behind bitch about the US only because t...

I'm giving it to the Neanderthals who the Indians robbed, which follows the well thought out logic of rightful land ownership resting with the distant...

And who do you think came over to do the stealing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Americans

Yes, so whatever it is that is making you ask this question, go ahead and return it to the rightful owner even though it's been a few years.

I found your avatar and would like to return it. /uploads/files/ht/7xzg8rk1zmwd1875.jpg He's picked up a bit of sass since you kicked him out.

I give you no grade. You simply did as required. The most thanks you're due is the same thanks we all are deserving of when we don't steal. That you a...

As might surprise you, the moderation application process does not involve the submission of resumes, although we do require an extensive criminal bac...

Moving papers from an inbox to an outbox requires no formal training.

If as Kierkegaard said, "Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction," then how is philosophy distinct? Is it not that the faithful...

He sounds agoraphobic. The corruption suggestion sounds like projection. There's no way to arrive at that suggestion from the facts provided. How does...

We've not broken down every fact in our hypothetical, but my assumption was that the return of the ring would result in a de minimis expense to you. I...

Why are you entertaining the remote possibility that an unrelated person hid a diamond ring in someone else's train set? Under what theory do we now d...

What entitlement does a descendent have over an ancestor's property and what grants someone superior rights just because they stood on the property fi...

You paid $150 to modify the ring and you could only pawn it for $40 and you did this 5 times? From my math, you paid $150 for the ring and extracted $...

I actually don't view the OP as an ethical dilemma. An ethical dilemma is where you have two possible responses to an ethical question and you can't f...

A hypothetical asking I assume someone shopped at Sears is too fanciful to wrap my head around.

How do we know the diamond wasn't part of the set, part of a scene depicting the shipment of diamonds mined by children? If not that, but a mistake, w...

I have a friend (no, seriously, I really do) who's Japanese. She said (in her funny accent) that one thing that the Japanese admire about Americans (a...

I don't follow how this resolves the problem of what is consciousness or how is it that you are conscious. This seems to only answer the question of w...

But that is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. Good things happen when people are optimistic.

We could also start a discussion in the ethics section called "Is it ok to help someone cheat." My own answer is yes. Wait, I mean no. The answer's pr...

It's speculation based upon untestable scientific hypotheses. There also is minimal effort put in this enterprise, largely because it has no practical...

Modern day heretics believe that the trinity are 3 entirely separate personages. The Mormon view: https://www.mormon.org/blog/do-mormons-believe-in-th...

Am I to understand your position is that the triune God thing is just so much bullshit that arose from a poorly written but highly esteemed text? Not ...

It's not condemnation and approval that rightly causes us to revisit our ethical rules (Premise 5), but it's introspection. Someone who revisits his e...

What I see is pretentiousness, as in three generally vague statements devoid of context, presented in an art show pretending to have significance. It'...

I anticipate you'll be banned here too, largely because you ramble and have nothing intelligent to say. Me too.

Maybe we should start a separate Trump Category.

I'm in favor of the default page being the Categories. That's how many other forums do it. I'm most in favor of creating an American option that lets ...

I second this suggestion. I'm seconding your second, not thirding Sapientia's first that you firstly seconded.

So you say, but the empirical evidence has so far shown otherwise. The Last Word

Our current software is more polished and less easily hacked.

My thought is that there are few differences in moderation and the membership isn't dramatically different. The software is the most striking change, ...

A few things: - The cite I provided specifically referenced the federal reserve's involvement in the financial crisis, so I'm not sure why you're poin...

There needn't be a moral justification, only a pragmatic one, meaning that the question isn't fairness, but what will maximize the wealth of the indiv...

Right, Obama's TARP program bailed out the banks that the Republicans deregulated and caused to crash. It's a good argument except that the banks were...

Right, and we'll credit Obama's genius on what GW set in motion.

Now that you have accepted the link between the presidency and the economy, you can thank Trump for the booming economy. As much as you might wish to ...

Your position is largely an ad hom, arguing that the speaker of the position must maintain a certain moral character in order to be supported even if ...

Dude, you'll never be an enemy. :love:

None appear to be good ideas, but instead are fundamental components of the Democratic platform.

I hereby condemn my president for any racism he may harbor. So damned, this the 15th day of August, 2018.

Get over it. You lost the war./uploads/resized/files/ko/07kxh01cbu1hclms.jpg

I like Benkei's analysis on the topic. One thing I'd add is that the left has no perspective on how morally bankrupt and hypocritical the right thinks...

And yet you have. Yet you have expressed meaning without being poetic. If it's not language, what is it, applesauce? The significance of your giving u...

This sentence attempts to salvage your theory which was headed in the direction of pure egoism. You posit that we know only ourselves, that the extern...