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I don't think it follows. As I said, human life is more valuable than animal life, just like animal life is more valuable than plant life or insect li...

You talk about being scared, and you run to protest pissing in your pants that you're going to lose your world? Pff. Give me a break. >:O

Well if you apply such a principle to me, why would you not apply it to many other people, presumably those who are like me, and there's many of us ou...

Your activism Banno shows me that you are scared. You (and by this I mean progressive/liberals) have everything to lose, and nothing to gain. I have n...

If you don't care what other people think, then get ready to lose in the political arena, it's quite simple.

Because you asked for differences mate... But it's natural for us to eat animals man :-O (excuse the naturalistic fallacy >:O ) Yes of course. Hmmm ye...

Let's see ... I got to this because it's just something that is repugnant. Metaphysically, that other human being is the same as me, and if I don't de...

You're a very strange fellow. I merely said back to you what you said to me, and now that's uninviting. Look Banno, all these look like excuses to me ...

I find yours nasty and immoral too on top of that. I think in as much as you engaged in dialogue I showed that you have no reason of presuming your va...

Show me where they have been shown to be incoherent. I think quite the contrary.

This politician would still have his own system of ethics right? So he would follow his own system of ethics in deciding how realpolitik will be emplo...

What makes you think the "Open Society" is even something to be desired? :s

Because he has balls of steel 8-)

:-} That's just a statement, not a justification Because there seems to be a hirearchy of being. I don't know. Do you feel as bad if you kill an ant, ...

And actually, it really depends upon who the people are. If the lone person is my wife or my child and the others are strangers that I don't know at a...

I'm not surprised at all, but quite a large share of them don't, and they have much bigger problems than having access to phones. A human being is of ...

Non-technological progress is an illusion *

What's bog? :-O

There is no being tied up in court when you have all the reigns of power, including congress. That's just an illusion.

And PF will have to pay for it - most important! (Y)

What do you mean perhaps not? Isn't the mere fact of living in a more developed country like US equivalent to being richer than the African kid? I mea...

The viruses are pouring in through our borders! Our borders are like Swiss Cheese people, we have to build a firewall! In fact that's exactly true. Th...

Maybe not relative to other people around you, but if you compare yourself to an African child, you're certainly very rich :) Well torture is just mak...

I don't have much of an opinion on this. I'm not decided on the questions but probably torture should never be a punishment even for the most atrociou...

Rich bastard. >:O

Okay, I see.

Then on what have you typed LOL? >:O

This sentence makes no sense to me. Do you mean that death IS justified as punishment? Again, I can't understand this.

Excusez-moi O:)

Yes. Yes. Which is why my Realpolitik ends up quite similar to morality itself, even if Realpolitik doesn't take into account ethics.

Good, then it works for you too.

America first does mean that American citizens have more rights than the other people of the world though. So long as America remains isolationist, th...

Are you a living being? There is no answer to the refusal to be reasonable except the ad hominem, as illustrated by Avicenna above. It's not just that...

YOU don't believe it gets things done, but you're wrong. And the fact you're still clinging to your WRONG belief after I have explained to you why it ...

No it's just pragmatic. There can't be a ban on Saudi because Saudi is too flooping powerful...

Hmmm yes. One would consider its non-moral implications only.

No it's not a false analogy at all. It's rather you lack of knowledge and your stupidity that makes you think it's a false analogy. For floophoops's s...

I take racism to mean an attitude one has towards one's own citizens. So this action isn't racist at all, as it's not directed towards creating divisi...

Exactly. But it's a distinct field of study - the division is purely intellectual, the same way, say, physics is divided from chemistry.

Right you dumbdumb, and torture is CLEARLY in your floopywoopy big head the only way to instil a sense of honour, shame and discipline, right?! Or is ...

Because political effectiveness can be studied independently of studying ethics? :s

No it's not to separate them at all. Rather Realpolitik doesn't deal with ethics. That's not a separation at all. Practitioners of Realpolitik hold th...

Why don't you try that for yourself, since it is you, not I, who believes that torture is an adequate cure for a naughty child? You should go do that ...

In fact, if you go to medical school this is the first foodydoody principle you get taught. A cure needs to be proportionate to the gravity of the ill...

Yes, it actually does. Go read up on it, your knowledge of medicine is clearly nil.

Realpolitik doesn't separate them at all. People holding and adhering to Realpolitik do have ethics, in addition to Realpolitik... I can't flapitidapi...

Morality and politics are obviously two distinct, but interrelated fields.

As far as I'm concerned, that's good. Those countries are too unstable to allow travellers to come in freely.

Yes this is precisely uncharitable. I said moral/political. What does that mean? If you have to translate that slash in a word, what word would it be?...

Just like how chemotherapy effectively eliminates my stomach infection right? But why would I use chemotherapy to get rid of my stomach infection, whe...