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Not only is it possible it can’t be taught to a human being, but if it could be taught, or if someone applied it to living today, would they find them...
December 14, 2019 at 01:15
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Sorry, @"Punshhh", I didn’t see your last question. Give it to me again.
December 13, 2019 at 23:59
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So clarify for me. How cynical are the voters? Did the poor vote in ignorance for the Conservatives Edit: what you could have said is that the people ...
December 13, 2019 at 08:55
I wasn’t meaning to harass you, just agreeing with the difficulty.
December 13, 2019 at 08:20
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It’s because you keep blaming the people who voted in an election, as if they’re incompetent. Why? That’s how a Democracy works.
December 13, 2019 at 08:03
No, not that simple, but that’s how it happens. You seem to be very dependent on some outside authority to make a moral decision for you, but you don’...
December 13, 2019 at 07:54
Yes, we could say say it depends on the individual. We could compare the love of one husband for his wife to another husbands love for his wife, and w...
December 13, 2019 at 07:44
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So it’s the stupid poor responsible for this?
December 13, 2019 at 07:43
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More women MPs have been elected to the House of Commons than ever before, according to the PA news agency. Those damn voters.
December 13, 2019 at 06:55
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Right, so you have no faith in the voters.
December 13, 2019 at 06:22
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Though I'm pretty sure the Russians are behind this.
December 13, 2019 at 06:17
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Well, if you can't trust the voters then it's all over.
December 13, 2019 at 06:13
I'm asking if one is greater than the other.
December 13, 2019 at 05:32
This is the question now; is the love of the mother greater than the husband?
December 13, 2019 at 04:22
In some ways I may be making this as difficult as possible so that we have to dig deeper. Yes there is only one factor to consider, the quality of her...
December 12, 2019 at 07:41
If euthanasia was available to them it could help. If they were Catholuc it would not. (Not totally sure on that, though).
December 12, 2019 at 06:48
Are you quoting law or your own feelings?
December 12, 2019 at 06:45
Isn't this @"schopenhauer1"s thoughts in action, not just theory.
December 12, 2019 at 06:30
I thought it meant both parties have zero rights over the victim.
December 12, 2019 at 06:28
Because by that point there is no way out of the pain they've been given. You have knowingly rebirthed them into a world of pain.
December 12, 2019 at 06:24
That's the question. So what is "everything"? There is no one resolving it except us.
December 12, 2019 at 06:19
I was trying to find your reason for siding with the parents, which was that they were thinking more of the victim's circumstances than the husband. I...
December 12, 2019 at 06:05
This is the reality of the situation. There might have been an “ us” at some stage, a village, a town, maybe a small country, but that changed with th...
December 12, 2019 at 03:57
Not for the Jews, though.
December 12, 2019 at 00:55
Okay, so make the brutally candid decision.
December 12, 2019 at 00:33
I think in terms of law you’re probably right. And it’s interesting that as you say, assuming it’s correct, that on marriage you are fully emancipated...
December 12, 2019 at 00:30
I don’t think these two questions are the same. To the first one you answer that you feel the parents are acting more in the interests of the victim. ...
December 12, 2019 at 00:23
You make an interesting point. Many people have come to distrust “intelligence” because they see their interests destroyed or diverted by the manipula...
December 11, 2019 at 09:42
I think this is a question of psychology. Why would people subscribe to asceticism? What would make them chose to go without, and just how much are we...
December 11, 2019 at 07:53
Who has this right over her future; the man who loves her or the women who gave birth to her?
December 11, 2019 at 07:43
So you feel that the parents are acting more in the interests of the victim than the husband?
December 11, 2019 at 07:38
This is not about law but a moral decision, without the aid of a legal system to help.
December 11, 2019 at 06:35
Well we all have 'brilliant' minds.
December 11, 2019 at 05:46
A life you wouldn't chose for anyone.
December 11, 2019 at 05:44
I did say "imagine this", and "set aside legal issues".
December 11, 2019 at 05:40
That was the point I as trying to make, not that mussels are more complex, but that there are areas of more complexity. I think we were trying to dete...
December 11, 2019 at 04:25
Who has the right regarding the victim to decide her future if it is to be between the husband or parents?
December 11, 2019 at 04:02
If she recovers she will live with chronic pain and disability. Being killed on the basis that euthanasia is legal. Being a Moslem it might, so let’s ...
December 11, 2019 at 03:57
Okay; hell is a lifetime of chronic pain and disability. The victim is unconscious but could become conscious on the basis of ongoing medical care. As...
December 11, 2019 at 03:46
Sorry, that’s my last comment.
December 11, 2019 at 02:50
As stated in Impeachment articles; obviously not.
December 11, 2019 at 02:30
I’m pretty sure that none of my responses would satisfy you. That’s because you’ve take the position that if you’re not with me then your against me. ...
December 11, 2019 at 02:04
Do we have a deficit of empathy?
December 10, 2019 at 09:20
I’m hoping you looked at the article, and read it to the end where the article finishes with this line; “The threat of tyranny can be real enough. But...
December 10, 2019 at 08:00
The problem is that whatever opportunities exist for people they’re still in need of an income, and it has to be a real income, not subsidised by gove...
December 10, 2019 at 04:51
If the scheme has as it primary purpose creating more employment then I think there’s a problem when you begin the scheme by reducing employment, i.e....
December 10, 2019 at 04:40
I thought you’d prefer the NYT as opposed to Fox. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sunday/trump-hysteria-democracy-tyranny.html
December 10, 2019 at 01:52