I'm not talking about a pandemic of mental retardation sweeping the countryside to the point where we've lost sight of our baseline of what constitute...
You brought up the rationality criteria, but it appears we both agree to its irrelevance. You miss the point. I wasn't saying it was irrelevant becaus...
But that has nothing to do with a child's liability or a child being held responsible for anything. That has to do with when to impose vicarious liabi...
Suppose someone kicks you in the head and you then punch him to get him off of you and he feels the need to protect himself from your retaliation. Wou...
This is a votes don't really matter argument. I'm just not willing to concede that. The choice needn't be silly. It could be very important and ideolo...
The distinction you point out is only due to the relative limited power of a single vote in a large democracy, resting upon the notion that a certain ...
I think logical consistency would demand that if we believe the mentally handicapped should be protected from the decisions they impose on themselves,...
This is an odd post. You're distinguishing between "citizens" and "individuals" for some reason as if they weren't being used synonymously in the cont...
No, you've missed the point. The case cited that has caused you such consternation holds only that a citizen is limited in his right to sue the police...
No idea what you're referencing, but our question wasn't when "rationality" was attained, and I've no idea how a recognition of rationality would resu...
I'm not sure why you cite UCRRPD as authority when it's not accepted as an authority anywhere. The authority of the rule in Ireland (if it has adopted...
Isn't it mental capacity that distinguishes the child from the adult and therefore limits the child's right to vote? Why wouldn't that logic similarly...
As you note, the rift between intellectualism and not seems to center on religion, with the religious believing intellectualism is but a lofty name fo...
There are federal marshals and the FBI and Homeland Security and I'd guess all sorts of other federal enforcers of federal law. Sovereign immunity app...
My wireless mouse doesn't transmit very well and it chugs the icon around annoyingly. If God wanted mouses to be wireless, he wouldn't have done the t...
I thought you were chiming in in agreement with the sentiment of the Banno post, so I recklessly assumed maybe you agreed with it. If not, then I wish...
Do you really place the blame of the school shootings on the teachers for not being properly trained or paid? That seems to be such nonsense. I'm open...
Teachers are already paid, but to the extent they are underpaid, that has nothing to do with gun violence. If we paid teachers better, we'd just have ...
No, what you're missing is the point that there are other ways to regulate conduct other than civil lawsuits. If the Peoria PD decides it no longer wa...
I don't think there's any question that the police have a job description that if not met will result in firings, public outrage, reorganizations and ...
You specifically brought up the right to bear arms, which was a reference to the 2nd Amendment. The title of this thread suggests an inconsistency bet...
Medilingaconfusia is the logical fallacy of spouting medical gibberish to end a conversation. What I'm saying is that you can quit eating your oatmeal...
The basis for the 2nd Amendment is not to assure the right of vigilantism of every citizen, but to protect you against a tyranical government. If a po...
What Constitutional provision is violated when the police fail to act? The better argument is that sovereign immunity laws are assumed valid under the...
I'd take this a step further and eliminate the issue of free will. I can have a belief without any behavioral correlate. I can believe I'm going to th...
No chicken contains added hormones. http://www.businessinsider.com/no-hormones-chicken-poultry-usda-fda-2016-3 All beef has hormones (obviously), but ...
I can't make any sense of this statement. The thermostat isn't conscious, although I thought we've already been discussing that. A meaningless distinc...
Do you suppose thermostats have phenomenal states? I guess having an opinion bars one from discussing that opinion with someone who has an opposing vi...
Just eat whatever you want and get routine colonoscopies and they can remove the pre-cancerous polyps before they are harmful. You can then sauté the ...
We all know that we are conscious, and we subjectively have no doubt about it. That we can't precisely define it makes it like any other term, includi...
That spike in usage occurred at that exact moment in 1975 when this humble website began and we signed up our first anti-natalist. The word is his onl...
He was able to unify the Republican vote into a victory. It's not like Obama got any meaningful Republican support during his terms. Why is Trump's br...
Rape is defined as non-consensual sex. Having sex with someone lacking the ability to consent is rape. So it's rape if I have sex with a 50 year old w...
When Obama was President and Democrat views prevailed, no one talked about divided America. Only when the Democrats lose has the country been divided....
Other than being brash and obnoxious, what has he really done that screwed things up so bad? No wars, no economic collapse, no crime surge, no fuel li...
For those unaware, the God Damned Greatest Cookie Award goes to the Girl Scouts Samoas. Not only is it delicious, it camouflages with my table like a ...
Why? I get being non-religious, but why be anti-religious? Religious people do make good neighbors at least. They pretend to care, they don't play the...
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