I suppose I'm open to the charge that friendship is the satisfaction of an instinct as well, but if so, I think it's less clear what that instinct is....
Forgive me, but I still don't see a reason. Why should one become romantically engaged with someone, as opposed to just remaining friends? What does r...
I agree that involuntary celibacy is a source of suffering for most people. I am reminded of the following story: It's fascinating to me how one's sta...
You've no reason for such surety. You might consult more the pages of history, which show that revolutions can and have occurred, despite the military...
True, it works both ways. The atheist ought not to employ contingent scientific theories to prove his atheism just as much as the theist ought not to ...
The majority of gun deaths are suicides, while the majority of homicides are committed with handguns and are usually related to drugs in some way. I t...
Yes. The reason I gave that you have focused on was about a scenario in which the state attempted to confiscate guns. It wasn't predicated on the seco...
You don't accept the Jewish or the Christian revelation. You've apparently received your own that is superior to them both, one that tells you all the...
No, I never said this. I said that if one rejects all religions, then one is not religious. I was taking aim at the perennialist who conceives of hims...
Yes, I think this is what would happen. And the founders who drafted the second amendment did so on the basis of said fear, which, as I tried to show ...
Certain cosmological arguments favored by Protestant natural theologians like William Lane Craig seem to employ the premise that "nothing" existed "be...
But the second amendment was intended to enable the citizenry to protect against both foreign governments and domestic, should the latter descend into...
Alternatively, you might provide us with a reason for why there is something wrong with trying to retain ownership of guns. Thus far, you have not don...
That Americans have already engaged in a revolutionary war, in part, to retain ownership of their guns, and that it would behoove you to understand wh...
Shotguns and semi-automatic assault rifles can be legally purchased, yes. That rifles are much more accurate than handguns. I suppose a handgun with a...
Your describing it as "unlikely" is equally mere speculation. By the way, I never prefaced the pragmatic reasons I gave by saying that they were indub...
What you need to stop embracing and appropriating are precisely all of these philosophies and religions you keep citing with reckless abandon. You are...
Handguns are not, certainly. The key word here is "regularly." They obviously do hit bystanders occasionally, but to elevate that adverb to "regularly...
Except that I was responding to CTW's claim that such misses will involve accidentally killing innocent bystanders. I don't know what kind of scenario...
I don't doubt that, as I conceded earlier that getting people to buy more guns certainly seems to be part of the NRA's agenda. I'm only trying to poin...
No, he doesn't. He wants you to join the Catholic Church. Unlike certain other religions, you are free to leave the Catholic Church if you want to. Wh...
The first step would be not to axiomatically reject the possibility that God exists or that a particular religion houses the truth. He addresses his P...
Oh but they do. You ought not to call yourself a Christian or attend a Christian church if you reject the truth claims of Christianity. If you're open...
I'm not exactly guessing, because he was talking about the NRA, and the NRA offers and encourages training. And I think this is true of most vocal sec...
I'm in favor of making training a requirement to own a gun. But I might add to your previous comment the observation that most active duty police offi...
I think a majority of them. The people who fall into the category you describe above are the people who would likely be found at gun ranges practicing...
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