Agustino

Yes, and it should have a punishment according to the harm it causes. Maybe a fine of 5$ is enough for such a simple thing. Or maybe no punishment is ...

As far as biological evolution is concerned, if I have sex for personal interest (which is pleasure), then its aims are fulfilled. Full stop. Biologic...

Nature's interest, as I said, is in reproduction. Homosexual sex cannot be explained by this, but must rather be explained by a derivative of these ba...

Why is protecting people from harming each other (because immorality means bringing harm to another) totalitarian?

I don't think so - I think it's rather because they disagree morally with my behaviour. So Muslim people may feel that homosexuals are somewhat devian...

I think spouses also deserve the protection of the law from being deceived (which as far as I am aware is a harm - if it is not, emotional suffering w...

How do you explain Marxism's total hate for the family then? Most of what socialism is has evolved from Marxism afterall.

Okay I somewhat follow your point. So you're right on this and I have been somewhat wrong. I'll give you this - although I will still reply that me ac...

Yes. But there is also another reason why they would act in shock and surprise - namely that if they didn't, they would be killed. This is an old comm...

Okay, sorry if I misread, as indeed I have. So if I privately shagged a dog, and told other people I did (because why not - I want to express and talk...

Yes, you are quite right BC, in this case, capitalism has acted as a means of oppression, that is why government intervention is needed to prevent thi...

So according to you, it is normal to disconsider homosexuals if they offend our personal sensibilities? This, to my mind, is barbaric. One should not ...

Immoral acts should be criminal (even though currently they may not be) - that is why the law exists, as an approximation for morality. Otherwise why ...

So - you will oppress me afterwards for shagging the dog by means of social exclusion no? Would you not thus break your own philosophy?

I've updated my post. Do you think Thorongil that the collapse of the Soviet Bloc was a planned, or unplanned event?

I fail to see how people shouldn't be prescribed how to behave at all (I agree people should have freedoms to choose their behaviors, but not unlimite...

And the enlightenment is the "correct view" that ALL of mankind will always have for the remaining of its history?

And there's no need to be ashamed Photographer. When I first started my own business, I had people working for me for disgusting sums of money. I knew...

This is factually wrong, which is all I'll say here. I come from one of those countries - the collapse of the Soviet Bloc was imminent and predictable...

Then you think people should consider themselves above the law?

Yes but these factors are so entrenched that they cannot be changed, except over very long time, by allowing the process of transition from dictatorsh...

You are peddling nonsense... as if it were possible for a black person not to show any skin... Yes there is good reason - that being against the law f...

Which is a most reasonable option. You have to keep in mind that with the internet the possibility of disinformation is GREATER than the possibility o...

Again - I fail to see on what your assumption that all regions of the world can be governed reliably through democratic means rests on, except on the ...

How can you misinterpret this so badly I wonder... When I clearly said that having a law outlawing black skin would be IMMORAL because black people ha...

No I don't. I simply take advantage of an opportunity I happen to have. I may not agree with having such an opportunity in the first place. Because ju...

Turkey is a quasi religious dictatorship under Erdogan. Lebanon is internally unstable. Israel is a Western state. Iraq is terribly unstable and viole...

No - I clearly outlined that adultery (extra-martial sex) is not a crime if both partners of the relationship agree with this - in other words if it i...

I argue that most members are/were prospective adulterers given the official aims of the website (to attract adulterers). It would be unreasonable to ...

Keep in mind that adultery, if by this we understand sex outside of marriage, is not necessarily objectionable. Open marriages exist, and in that case...

That is not the question. Do you think they should or shouldn't be prosecuted, and why or why not? I understand Canadian government may not prosecute ...

PS: Notice, that this also means that failure to, for example, wear a scarf, can be punished as the respective culture decides. Why? Because everyone ...

It means exactly that no one culture is imposed over another. For example, we don't go in the Middle East to tell them what rules they should have abo...

The Assad regime is supported, and dictatorships are allowed to govern the Middle East, being the only form of government that works in those regions ...

I agree, that has been my whole argument as well. I disagree that this is the base assumption of right-wing politics, at least in the manner I think o...

This is factually incorrect. I never claimed it is ethical to kill gay people if a culture happens to be anti-gay and enforces it. What you may ARGUE ...

Ego tunnel is great - people all give me deodorant and cologne... I must really stink I think :O

A process that is by its very nature oppressive and conflictual, as the working class is supposed to overthrow the capitalist class and impose its val...

Good - according to your theory your ethics cannot be enforced upon others since you yourself admit it's the product of your emotional preferences, an...

Ok Big Boss, that must most surely be done. Your will is our law!

Why did they commit suicide? Sex wasn't satisfying enough then?

So surely - they were joyous then :P - therefore there is joy

Ahh surely - but then what about those who could get laid?

Neither would there be any joy :P I will welcome the end when it comes - in the hands of the gods - as the Ancients would say - but it doesn't concern...

The world ending? Why the hurry? :P

What's with the depressing thoughts ? :P And btw, what's your avatar supposed to be?

Haha! What an epic turn-around!

Interesting - but I would disagree with Maslow that all those have to be treated as "needs", even if they may be perceived as being needs at first.

This does not follow. It does not follow that because it is not wrong (ie, no rights are broken) to interfere/harm another group that this is right. T...

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