Key to Baden's ego supply: Post controversial topic, expect everyone to agree with his side of the matter, feign outrage when, predictably, people dis...
Deadly force is used when the rubber bullets and tear gas isn't working. The riots pulled back when Israel put their foot down. In this instance I app...
Israel has every right to do so. Force is required to keep them from coming any closer. If you had read my first contribution to the topic, you'd get ...
This is exactly what Hamas is banking on. Orchestrate riots by a bunch of hooligans tossing firebombs at the Israeli border threatening to jump the fe...
"Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, suggested last week that more than 100,000 people could storm the fence on Tuesday. Israeli military offic...
Rights are of no practical use unless they are protected, or "secured", as you worded it. And since animals can't reflect upon their own right to life...
There's having rights, and then there's the protecting of those rights. "Securing" rights isn't always possible, though. This is why we need those in ...
I think the OP would include sympathy with empathy. Humans cannot empathize fully with pigs, but we can sympathize with them. And it is because we con...
You seem to be under the impression that my humanness in the event of desperation or survival is the fundamental factor in my decision to eat meat whe...
I'm vegetarian. I don't eat meat because I don't need to. Were I stranded someplace and needed to eat meat, I would eat meat. Such would be a necessar...
If so, then this is a distinction without a moral principle at play. An apple is not an orange. Great, but...? Okay, what else? I mean, sure, I'm more...
Michael's less of a dishonest shithead, so I'm glad he and I can get somewhere, perhaps. Unless of course he falls off the planet and stops posting en...
What level of intelligence and by what metrics might one judge x, y, z to not be intelligent enough to have its throat saved from a slashing? Once aga...
Your position is one that must argue that it is right to eat that which is less powerful and intelligent than you, therefore that which is more powerf...
Such a threshold being power and intelligence, as far as I can see. What am I missing? If 1 is a rat, and 2 is a human, and 3 is a Martian, then 3>2>1...
If the natural hierarchy you're arguing for is based solely upon power and intelligence, then what happens when a being of greater "advanced intellect...
If you're arguing for principle over preference, you kinda need to establish that eating meat is intrinsically wrong, otherwise you'll get every sort ...
As Malcolm X said, the house negro has played the victim card for decades. For some women, being thought of as a victim paradoxically grants them a fe...
Unless I'm mistaken, Clark's point is that discussing whether bad guys should be killed isn't a suitable topic on a forum like this. Faaaaaaaaar less ...
The moderators here don't follow the site guidelines. You of all people should be aware of this. They don't treat their job with any degree of good wi...
I understand that, but if you're someone that screams at the top of your lungs about "muh freedumbs" and how terrible the government is, then throwing...
Here, sweetie, I'll try this again. If your solution to gun violence is to combat "dangerous, criminal and mentally ill" people, what are the ways in ...
I asked you how you would carry out the solution you've proposed and you've yet to answer. If you want to sidestep providing any substance to your arg...
What? :lol: How about you respond to the content of my reply? Thanks :up: I don't support a blanket ban on all firearms, but nice try. I thinking bann...
Focused by whom? The government? And do you want the government going even deeper into the bowels of healthcare and what constitutes mental illness? A...
Everyone's done their part, though I think NK has simply reached the breaking point. No food, no money, and their nuclear program sucks, so not much o...
Yes, yes, yes, I disagree, I disagree, I disagree. I've already said that before. None of those questions relate to my own arguments and so they are r...
You want to ostricize them and exclude them from civil society. How will you do that without violating their rights and freedoms? Hint: you can't. Nah...
Oh I'm not too sure about that! I've been deep in the bowels of academia, so many, many people. If you've not been on a college campus in decades, you...
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