If the objection is an accurate one based on the character of a specific god as portrayed via its followers and its "holy texts", then it is not offha...
Familiarity has certainly bred contempt here. At least among the politically opposed. This site needs more members so the disagreements don't carry fr...
Denying someone a gun is not denying them a right to life. Denying people access to all guns is not necessarily my position anyway, but neither Thoron...
Because of things like memory, writing, and the development of new systems within the larger social system(e.g., political parties), the greater socia...
I think the endowment effect is a large part of why people are reluctant to give up their guns. Oh look, another rare incident. http://www.latimes.com...
If this thread is only intended to discuss what is, then it's clear the answer is yes in some countries and no in others. The US courts have upheld th...
I would argue that is too prudish even for me. There's nothing inherently sexual about complimenting someone unless you are speaking about specific pa...
Whether it would be minimally useful or not doesn't matter. Using your syllogism I could justify having one. What I'm trying to figure out is where yo...
No, I actually said, "Groups of people", referring to mass shootings. The government gets to have and do a lot of things your average citizen doesn't....
I don't think enacting rules in spite of yourself is necessarily hypocritical. People are capable of comporting themselves differently based on their ...
How is this conversation still going? How many hundreds of years were comments like these, directed at women, commonplace but also less lighthearted i...
It would practical against a tyrannical government or an invading force. Obviously I'm not seriously in support of this, but the argument holds. My po...
I was going to look up police shooting statistics over the last (insert number) years, but the data available is crap. Somehow despite all the protest...
Groups of people that are being shot up with a fair amount of regularity should count as vulnerable peoples don't you think? As for the increasing int...
I think when it comes to comments sexual in nature, harassment is in the eye of the beholder. I agree with the gist of the article, but I think it's u...
When it comes to one's workplace, unless you know your audience incredibly well, it would seem prudent to abstain from sexual comments directed at any...
Perhaps you've listened to this before or read about the professor's work, but it turns out the gender pay gap isn't what its claimed to be: http://fr...
I agree for the most part. I don't think they're always fetish objects. Guns are a great equalizer for those of diminutive stature. However, they beco...
He is probably one of the craziest and most divisive people in this country's leadership at the moment. It's no wonder he thinks more guns are the ans...
I don't disagree with you entirely. I think at the very least the US needs to start making it more difficult for people to own them; e.g., permit cour...
There is a particular community that exudes the characteristics that you are mocking, Landru. However, the majority of gun owners(in my experience) do...
The boundaries of knowledge are different for each person and a place like this or places like it could potentially encompass the entire spectrum. The...
Bitter Crank posted this: Outrages like the mob murder of a Moslem in India for allegedly eating meat from a sacred cow shouldn't be swept under the c...
To be more on topic, now seems like a great time for the world's military powers to unite against a common enemy. The US certainly has an interest. Ru...
Again, you're saying the the establishment gets to set the rules about what is fact and what is not. Anyone who says different should be criminalized?...
You can make as many arguments for creationism as you want. Full stop. I wouldn't like a government deciding what I can and cannot say. In the US, one...
You're entitled to make false claims within the limitations of the law. Others are not obligated to believe you. If you can't see the difference betwe...
"Now" is a place in time though. "My nose grows now" is not self-referential like the liar paradox. I see it is like this: utterance(now)-growth/not g...
No this is not the case. I'm not talking about a fools paradise and I'm not talking about withholding all relevant facts that would cause someone suff...
Yes, I think I did. My argument wasn't that feeling bad is always useless or that ignorance should be our bliss, but that sometimes the truth only ser...
I feel the philosophical position one takes in a discussion like this hinges on their psychological state. How can you quantify suffering or pleasure?...
Value, much like truth, is not "out there" to be found(IMO). Something could be potentially useful but unknown, and therefore not valued. It would onl...
Why not try for plan A and B at the same time? Isn't a truth's value relative to it's perceived usefulness? As TGW said, he could know the number of h...
Even so, if he would have showed up the day of or after the sale and explained his/their intentions, I'm not sure this site would exist. PF probably w...
Any chance of an Amazon.com click through? It could be under the subscribe page and when people are going to go to Amazon and buy something, they can ...
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