Two subjects who want to have sex, even if they are strangers, do not become objects to each other because of that. Sure, some subjects view others as...
When I was a young man, the normal way for two gay guys to begin a relationship was to have sex first. Of course sex didn't always lead to a relations...
That seems odd, because... Not all suicides employ guns, of course, but most do. I am assuming that suicide represents a mental health issue, at least...
Amending the US constitution is possible but is neither quick nor easy. Congress must first pass an amendment, and then 38 of the 50 state legislature...
Thorongil, I was responding to this post by Michael in which he quoted you. Green Alert: You are not under attack. I posted your statement, rather tha...
Yes, I read it in context. Thorongil is a thoughtful, well informed, intelligent fellow, but isn't a statement of fact. It's speculation about an extr...
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There is probably nothing wrong with American society that is not also wrong with other societies. If we are different, it is that some of our problem...
The Las Vegas mass murderer achieved better results by using very high quality optics on his enhanced assault rifles, or so I read; he could aim the g...
You will have to work things out with Tiff as you see fit.. You should be yourself, and not sacrifice any part of yourself. So too should Tiff be true...
With 100 million guns in circulation (not all of them suitable for mass murder, of course, lots of them are only good for selective murders, one here,...
The cost benefit analysis is a good approach. If early reports are accurate, two good-guy shooters participated in bringing down the bad guy killer. T...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -E. Rosevelt I don't agree with Eleanor. Oscar Wilde said, “It is...
I don't know what the natural history of a "Mass Murder Meme" (MMM) is. Gun manufacturers have some role in it's creation and perpetuation. If a produ...
There is no hope for gun control, at this point. It's sort of like us being worried about North Korea's measly handful of atomic bombs -- what with th...
One of them (Tiff or Sapientia) is a staff and the other one is a rod. If they are not careful as they walk through the valley, they might both get th...
I'm familiar with some books on marketing. It's not that there are no experts on marketing, obviously there are. It's just not a field I have been int...
"Merely synonymous"? Nothing is mere. The "monetization of all human activity, automation and outsourcing of human labor, and coercion of human cultur...
You are misreading the reality, the theory, or both. Consumerism (as presented theoretically in advertising) is not intended to contribute to sexual l...
I tend to agree that the term is mostly pejorative, and it's history of usage is sort of convoluted. Wikipedia says... The prefix "neo" seems to get a...
From some perspectives, there are way too many people getting college education. It's good for people to get education, but it isn't necessarily corre...
Tuition will be lowered by reversing the policy and process that raised tuition, starting in the early 1980s. At that time legislatures started reduci...
I just tossed out the comment on the Taliban without giving it much thought, but apparently I was that seriously misinformed. I did a quick scan of so...
One of the reasons Summer Hill gets mentioned is Neill wrote a book which was popular. There have been some good education programs that didn't benefi...
I understand you have some quite specific interests in cannabis, but I wonder whether the contentedness you have attributed to using cannabis is a chi...
Exactly. Nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, opioids, cannabis... all attach to specific sites. That these sites exist doesn't mean we evolved to use the dru...
The idea that left an right share essentially the same ideology is well established. Clearly there are some differences, but nothing radically differe...
Yes, of course. Again, this is a truism. I readily agree that resources and energy have to be applied to whatever social projects are undertaken, whet...
If the NHS were a patient, it would be in the ICU. But the UK problems are mostly a result of neocon policies, not actual national poverty. As far as ...
In the United States there is a wide cultural dividing line between (roughly) the northern tier of states and the southern tier of states. The norther...
Note to XanderTheGrey: We're not hijacking your thread on Video Game Delusions, we're just applying the general idea of delusions to real life. "What'...
I don't know whether our culture thrives on addictive personalities, but consumption is not merely pushed, it's ram-jacked. The poverty of everyday li...
Most people probably become seriously bored at times, but don't resort to drugs Why do you think that is? A hedonist is a person who believes that the...
I don't live in a drug culture, and most of the people I know don't live in one either. (Drugs here meaning recreational drugs, and some pharmaceutica...
I understand that harm in this life will not be carried over into the alleged next life. I understand that in the next life, this life will seem illus...
Yes, it does sound a bit crazy. Quite a bit, actually. Let's suspend this discussion for a while. Allow us to shoot a bullet through your abdomen, int...
Adorable story, Agustino, but sorry, I can't endorse his glorious entrepreneurship, especially with building for-profit care homes. At least in the US...
Immersive media -- you mentioned movies, video, games, and the internet; we can add TV and even books, comics, radio -- give people a mythos (a tradit...
Sad? Sad doesn't begin to plumb the depths. If you go see White Christmas, be sure to bring some dramamine and insulin -- yule need a couple of doses ...
Ever hear Harry Nilsson's musical story of Oblio and his dog Arrow who lived in The Land of Point? It's about Oblio a pointless child who, unlike ever...
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