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Sure, and Israel is also largely secular and forward looking. I don't know why you draw a distinction between secular/religious, forward looking/backw...

The Muslim world is just misunderstood, but the Jewish world is evil. Such is the narrative.

Long fuel lines at gas stations, weak foreign policy resulting in Iran hostages, double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, Russian wheat de...

I see Carter as the worst President of my lifetime. He then was an excellent ex-President with his charitable work. Then he decided to get back into p...

This is a Hanover fantasy, not a Bitter Crank fantasy, so stop with the Hanover imagery and stick to what the women might be wearing and doing. Don't ...

Trump has desensitized us to Cruz. In fact, I think many of us are now missing W. I can say Obama has left me fondly reminiscing about Bill Clinton.

Is this the consequence of public healthcare? In the US, you can just go get it done. There are additional restrictions with later term abortions, but...

And if Hilbert's hotel were half full, it'd still have an infinite number of guests, which means when it was fully full, it'd have double the infinite...

This actually feeds into the conservative criticisms of the left, which is that the behavior being advocated is clearly immoral, but that it is being ...

I see the anti-gay sentiment differently from the abortion issue. The anti-gay sentiment rests (I think) on a few biblical passages, and with waning l...

Substitute the term "belief" with X and I agree with what you're saying in a very global way. Everything would be happenstance without determinism, in...

PF was historically very unreliable for some reason. You never knew when it would be up and running, when there'd be various errors, and when posts wo...

If a fetus is special, then why can't there be special laws for it?

The Supreme Court never enunciated any fetal rights in Roe v Wade or in any abortion case that followed. All analysis dealt with the state's right to ...

I couldn't understand your post.

Among those I joke around with, yes. I'd also imagine that you might consider our liberals conservative, considering my location and industry.

As a joke in my office we often try to prove how we're more conservative than the other by picking out comments the other one makes that might be inte...

Your comments are very unclear. If your beliefs are the result of pre-determined causes beyond your control, they would be held by pure happenstance (...

I don't know of any other situations in typical democracies where affected parties are afforded more votes than those not so affected. Take driving un...

To simplify my point: This is really the Cartesian problem of the brain in the vat. We can't know whether all of our perceptions and judgments are acc...

And in order for one to hold the belief that beliefs about the world are typically true because determinism just happens to be set up that way, one ha...

Which is exactly my point. You are left believing whatever it is that you must believe, including believing that you believe correctly.

Your position is plainly ridiculous.

If our beliefs are the result of pre-existing causes beyond our control, what follows is that our beliefs cannot be asserted to relate to truth. To th...

It absolutely follows unless you impose reason into the universe, which requires that all deterministic forces lead conscious beings to truthful belie...

I think you must start your argument with the prefatory statement Assuming that a fetus is a part of, as opposed to contained within, a woman's body. ...

This doesn't follow. Your prior position was that the pregnant woman alone had the right to choose abortion at any time because it was her body. If th...

So, if offered two options, going to the store or coming home, you are compelled to do that which was pre-determined. If the preexisting causes lead y...

You simply don't understand what I'm saying. You really don't. You can't judge the quality of my argument if determinism is true. If a judge has a pre...

No, assuming determinism true, an idea will be judged by pre-existing causes and whether your conclusion is actually based on internal coherence and e...

I'm not following how the Governor is to blame or Republicans generally. It looks like it was a failure of the EPA (run by the Obama administration) a...

I clicked on your link which supposedly provided a basis for your argument that abortions in some states were legally permissible for 8 1/2 month fetu...

Those things in high demand and low supply fetch the highest price. That applies to gold, sports cars, and doctors. We need floor sweepers too, but un...

Alright, so you have two options here: determinism where everything is coerced or libertarianism where there are uncaused causes. The former is consis...

A compatibilist holds that free will is compatible with determinism, the belief that everything is pre-determined. He's not disagreeing with the notio...

And that creates the problem of your not being able to talk about what you've read because no one should be interested in your views as a secondary so...

Amen.

You have to explain how this works then. I go out and organize people and secure the capital to build a building. I build it and then start renting ou...

I buy into the essentialist argument when it comes to what a person is. As one disassembles a ship, at some point it is no longer is a ship. It's neve...

Yes

Why does rich "stink," considering it is that wealth that you incentivized them to obtain that you now need. If you create a system where people will ...

Well, I do think the rich already make a massive difference, not only from the fact that they already contribute disproportionately to the tax base, b...

Yes, but if birth is also clearly before the gray zone, then we should allow parents to drown their kids in the well for some period of time after bir...

I don't care if you're 30 years old.

Allowing abortion up until "personhood" is a philosophical concept, asserting that only "people" have an inherent right to live. A "person" are those ...

In a showdown, who would win, the Spartans, the Vikings, or the Mongols?

Then why arbitrarily choose birth as the moment of personhood? It's not like a 1 day old infant can do a whole lot of the things that fully fledged ki...

This is absurd.

Stop hitting on me.

I voted for Kasich, which really didn't matter because Trump had the Georgia vote well at hand (even though they are freakishly small and evidence of ...