:) In some versions the story starts with the people being grieved by the actions of their king, Gilgamesh. He has sex with all the women and he force...
They had rights. In a lot of cases their rights were violated. Nazis could violate the rights of Jews. Evocative statement. We look at definitions or ...
To "violate a right" is to commit a certain kind of transgression. But I think it's true that if black people, for instance, are not considered to be ...
I've been reading about ancient Sumeria. I think if we wanted to explain to them what rights are, we might tell them that one of their myths explains ...
The concept of a right is a tool for addressing wrongdoing. It doesn't have much value beyond that. You'll explain the basis of rights according to yo...
She can't invest her emotions in you. She reflexively closes off to protect herself. On top of that there's a hormonal issue with being 15. She's not ...
A theory: where population density is low, there might be some envy, some resentment. In the Russian mir they say sons would twist under the thumb of ...
Somebody threw some bread and the grackles arrived. Soon the big kahuna appeared, striking his sapphire gleam at the others. They backed up and waited...
"But those are days, at this point in our narrative, that are still far in the future, for now we are concerned with the process whereby religion make...
"for eventually the human being will find himself alone and abandoned by an indifferent cosmos in which the audience of gods has vacated the theater. ...
It's a problem because it requires that the person presenting the argument either 1. accepts that the argument implies a contradiction, or 2. provides...
It's the proof of God that was presented to me in childhood. I noticed early on its weakness. Is God supposed to be an untidy, disorderly entity? If n...
That's definitely happened in electronics. But if you look at the industry required to make or repair a windmill, for instance, steel and glass still ...
Cool. I think your position is probably around 90% hope. You aren't proposing long term solutions, but rather you stand for thinking about and investi...
But large is also beautiful. And sometimes it's not only the best way, it's the only way to get the job done. I'm not knockin' small stuff. It definit...
I think you misunderstood the intention of my post. It's just more leaked stuff; unconfirmed, but probably true (most of the leaked stuff has been tru...
Yea, but if the dude is crazy enough to go into a hospital to shoot people, I don't know if having premature babies thrown at him is going to make a d...
That would have been possible back when I worked with babies, but it's adults now. They're too big. My only hope is that if it happens, all my patient...
Oh, it's the trained killer part that makes it so fascinating. I'm partly kidding btw. I work in a hospital. That's me covered head to toe in personal...
The discussion was about what we should focus on during an election. Terrorism was elected because it's a serious problem. I don't say it's not a seri...
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