Agustino

You really love playing dumb

Are you kidding me? :s Stop playing dumb. They'll not only be ashamed, they'll be fearful, vengeful, angry, hateful, and so forth. Are these good?! *f...

Because I have a code of ethics that is independent of my adherence to Realpolitik maybe? :-d There's no inconsistency at all there, it's just your co...

No it's actually not all good at all. There are other psychological effects that are harmful that torture has, including the effects on the torturer h...

Yes but my assertion doesn't disagree with you. It may indeed be that no offence is sufficiently grave to deserve torture as a punishment.

If the punishment is not proportional for the offence, it's like treating a bacterial infection of the stomach with chemotherapy. Shall we do that? Th...

The punishment needs to be proportional to the offence. Punishing a disobedient child who sneaks out of the house at night by torturing him isn't prop...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg/300px-Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg ...

What are these "results" in concreto? There is no evidence that people change their behaviour because of torture - in fact, I imagine quite the contra...

I'm not decided on such matters, but I tend to agree.

Or if we have a village suffering of flooding, then we'll solve the flooding problem by destroying the village - great logic >:O

:-d Yes, I'm sure if you were a doctor you'd propose killing people, that will certainly cure them of all possible suffering no?

Yes it is a controversial bill. True. There's other issues at play. If a neighbour slaps my son for trying to bed his daughter, then he gets fined. If...

No that doesn't follow at all. An eye for an eye isn't the same as a head for an eye. Don't be stupid.

So yes SLX, we are to prefer a society in which a husband feels great shame for abandoning his family and is socially disrespected for it, then one in...

in what cases is it "necessary"?

This word salad is void of any content at all. Shame and honour are natural human impulses that have to be cultivated along the right lines. If you do...

For violent terrorists, not for your own citizens for God's sake... That's already a huge difference.

What evidence do you have for thinking torture works? :s

ehmmmm are you serious? :-}

Discipline is a communal activity that is enforced through mechanisms involving a sense of honour/shame and peer pressure. You have to inculcate in pe...

Principles are not instilled by beating people up - quite the contrary, if you beat them up you will instil in them the principle of waiting quietly u...

You're free to be for more beatings but the Russian government certainly isn't, nor does the Russian government think beatings are morally permissible...

You know what I think about you SLX? You have a very good intellect, it's just a pity that you sold yourself out to leftism/feminism and the like and ...

That's fake news. You know what I understand when I read what you wrote? I understand that Russians have decided to legally permit domestic violence -...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avr0K-YEcSA Here's a man who understands Realpolitik. The West should follow his example. That's why we're losing, bec...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MhdHCHjInY

>:O Good one but I'm not sure if it is the businessman being unimaginative, or the naked woman not being prudent, or both? >:O

The husband BC, is sick of eating spinach every night, he wants to have some beans for a change! :-* ;)

X-) I see I see, nasty bastard that he is >:O

Possibly, but this doesn't happen with the others for me. I get them straight away.

Not to me, I see so many possible meanings in it that I don't even know what to think lol... >:O

True actually now that I think about it >:O - but there is a grain of truth in success doctrine lol.

Maybe. But it can also be that the husband wants the light on the hallway to be on because his wife is fucking another man (for example), and he doesn...

I don't get it

BC don't be wimpy lol >:O

Better than not being surprised is enlightening me about what it's supposed to mean >:O

No? :s

Why do you think he's not smart on morality? :-}

>:O I don't get this one:

No it isn't. It really isn't. The freedom you're talking about is just words on a page, nothing real. No they don't have skin in the game if they can ...

Common maaaan - the guy is a neurosurgeon you don't get to become a neurosurgeon if you're an idiot. Maybe you mean he's not educated in matters other...

I did man... you know my legs started going shaky... >:O

No there is no such freedom. That's an abstraction right there. No, but people must have skin in the game. Skin in the game, those are the words. And ...

Why?

Yes it's about abstract words, which actually, in concreto, are masks for vice (Y)

My concept of conservatism isn't from the 1950s at all Mongrel. Again, I have no option but to think you're just lying. Have you ever listened to, for...

Yes, I'm working for Big Brother 8-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conservatism_in_the_United_States at least 34% of your population is social conservative. Are you purposefully be...

It's not wrong at all Mongrel. You're just refusing to see the huge number of social conservative Christians in America, not to mention other traditio...