Agustino

It's an observation considering the people i have met and interacted with. Do you disagree with it? Depends on the particular situation. Generally if ...

I appreciate your input, I find it very thoughtful., coherent and rational. I must agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I'm not at home so I c...

I said significant, long-lasting and unrepairable harm. Okay a few points. First your narrative is quite unrealistic - most people committing adultery...

You have a prejudice against white, heterosexual males sir. I don't have any - I treat all people equally.

Short comings in terms of experience, career and aptitudes are permitted to the black female lesbian while not to the white male heterosexual. No - th...

I agree. Nope. We disagree here. These social policies don't stop you from loving if that's what you want to do. They stop you from harming others. Th...

False analogies. What makes you think pain, pleasure, etc. are like love? In what sense is pain and pleasure for example a relationship and intermingl...

That there is such a thing or there isn't such a thing is up for each individual to investigate and discover for themselves - I have my answer. As for...

I am already in such a world. I don't personally have power over death. So what?

The other forum is still dead. Mr. Porat is a terrible businessman - just wasted 20K. I wonder how he gets access to throw away such money - clearly m...

In some countries - unfortunately not in all of them. Where I am originally from, in Eastern Europe, divorce in most countries is in the favor of the ...

No - they are not. They are about love. Love requires certain social policies to be made possible and encouraged. Those policies are compatible with l...

Yes it's called divorce - not adultery, thankfully. When I say natural I simply describe a predisposition of the human organism. Most people would pre...

This is a presumption. The experience of hundreds (or better said thousands!) of years disagrees with you. People generally do prefer if their partner...

Nobody ever said this. Some of us need to count money in order to keep you in good supply of mud, don't we? :D

Poets admire what is worth admiring no?

-Deterring adultery, encouraging divorce as a way of separation -Preventing social conflicts that arise out of adultery, as I'm sure you know, adulter...

Yes, just like cancer can certainly be prevented by suicide >:O Solutions my friend are found WITHIN the framework in discussion - not outside of it. ...

Let's see what I actually said in the previous thread... Well, well, who is the politician now side-stepping the arguments I have put forth so skillfu...

These are legal details and quandaries that have to be decided by lawyers, not by us. Again as I said, I don't think any of us are here to detail to y...

You don't have to be shy - he has quite a good book called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living :D

>:O Most poets wouldn't agree with you. Neither would Kierkegaard, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc. You just have no guts to hope for something grander - you ...

I have said I think there maybe should be a punishment for it. I have explained why, and provided justifications. What more can I do for you? No I did...

I don't see any pathological thing about understanding your own body, and taking responsibility over your own body. This should be something taught to...

First I would inquire why - why don't they want to have friends? Maybe they think their friends will betray them, maybe they think everyone is a self-...

What poet sings the praises of love if it's not eternal huh? :-*

Those two don't chime well together. They sound quite contradicting to me.

As you can see above, I think anxiety can be somewhat useful. It can push you to learn a lot of useful information. Things that people should be taugh...

I'm not sure what literal talk of a "Heavenly Father" means. Human beings certainly don't live in the sky I mean. So I don't know what such talk means...

I respect your feelings, but that's her free decision to make (and yes I would say that would be immoral for her - but the state has no business legis...

I'm not saying it would in your particular case. I'm just speaking and thinking generally - as I said if both parents loved each other and got along :...

:-! then she should have first divorced you, then afterwards when she has the idea, possibly renegotiate with you if you were still willing to accept ...

What do you mean take it metaphorically? I just take it for what it is - namely an expression of universal natural law, which indicates the path one m...

Because I found out that the same moral beliefs I arrived at by myself had already been specified before by religion. The only difference was that I s...

That's. Not. True. You can divorce in my land whenever you want. Your love can divorce you. But she can't cheat on you - there's a very big difference...

I'm not legally against divorce, only morally. The reason for it is that I care about love - and love has to be eternal - if it's not eternal, it's no...

The analogy was making a different point - namely a legal point. We cannot organise society except by law - law means punishments. I wouldn't want to ...

I will start by saying both that this is a topic that has interested me (personally and I have dealt with anxiety related to death as well), and also ...

Both my parents have been divorced. So you think that I should think that divorce is a good thing morally speaking? We must learn from other people's ...

Right - the best solution to being robbed by a thief is to get better protection for your home - forget punishing the thief. If we all thought like th...

In medicine, there are quite a few conditions when the immune system turns against your own body. Multiple sclerosis is one such condition, which are ...

It's good you recognise that - many other Marxists wouldn't. :) I disagree with you about religion for example but that's a story for another thread.

Actually not - that's an additional assumption you're making there. Namely that one must know the consequences of immorality in order to be moral. I d...

I understand how you feel, nothing wrong with adopting that position. As I said, I think in such situations either voting for the only possible choice...

Did I say they were? They're not - but it takes intelligence to see the consequences of immorality. Sure after you see the consequences, then you can ...

Even if you are a progressive, this is not a rational attitude to adopt. Several other progressives have already made this point.

I never said it's rational for your partner to commit adultery. That's precisely the point! It's not rational. If they were acting rationally, then th...

Sir it is good I believe that people have more intelligence than this :)

Well hopefully this thread is for the dialogue I started with John to continue. Regardless of the somewhat unfortunate name of the thread, which I did...

Moral principle judges the person, not his policies though.