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Of course, that's why I put reality in quotes. I made an angel as well, and she became a lawyer, oh well, not quite sugar & spice, but she is very nic...

Angels are pure spirit in 'reality', with no bodies. Only their appearance in narratives gives them gender roles., and that role is primarily masculin...

Just in appearance, not in 'reality'

Maybe. I don't think the US will take any unilateral military action unless Japan, South Korea or US are actually at the receiving end of North Korean...

If North Korea's gambit is to drive permanent wedges between China, South Korea, and the US, it looks like they are ahead in points.

Angels don't have gender.

Yes, I think the end of the film brings home the point that dream like experience they just went through may have been more fantasy than reality, it m...

Yea, I guess...sheltered up there among those peaches Hanover? :D Burning Man been going on since 1986. Started in San Francisco (of course) got adopt...

Conspiracy theories were big back then, especially ones tied to together with the occult, sex, religion. (I especially like Roman Polanski's "The Nint...

Yes, my point is he could have said it, meaning to sell the 'pursuit of happiness' as a way of life, the sizzle, instead of ownership of property, the...

Yes, that's also what I understand. "Sell the sizzle and not the steak" is often attributed to Ben Franklin.

2017 Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. 70,000 people, a variety of great photos here https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-cont...

The information is presented on a capita basis in order to compare it to other nations, but as you indicate it can be skewed. Pew found no hard correl...

Pew Research: American Exceptionalism.

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What are we talking about... etiquette, what the owner say goes, in a limited sense he is the benevolent monarch some seek. We saw what happened when ...

I think we see politicians keeping strictly to party lines, even when the party's lines may not represent the interests of a given constituency. This ...

Plato argues in his "Gorgias" that it is better to suffer wrongs than it is to cause them, that a person who causes harm is to be pitied, because the ...

Belief can be wrong....is the cup in the cupboard?. Reality and logic are not joined at the hip but they are generally pretty friendly.

Tut, tut, :) Justice by fiat is not just, it is arbitrary, a secularized form of divine command theory.

A monarch who is above the law is a sad conception. The justice of a tyrant can never, in principal or in fact can be just or fair, even when the it d...

Yea, I agree with that in a democracy policies are inclusive, they apply as much to those in power as they apply to those who are powerless. There is ...

I take a slightly different view. I think rights must be good, derivative of what is just and fair which are incorporated into legitimate practices, n...

I know this is not quite what you are saying here but I've known several people for whom family is their life, and their purpose in life.

Have to split....I'll try to catch up latter or in am

Amigo, which question.

This is a conversation, not an interrogation and as such you ought to contribute to it.

You define a right

Civil, criminal, international, municipal laws? Not really very sure what you are asking? Laws typical protect freedoms, rights such as those outlined...

All democracies are constituted by laws, both traditional like English Common Laws and by laws that have been constructed, by statute. Or are you now ...

If democracy was not the best form of government then you guys would be mentioning other forms of government, I think. As far as the best example of a...

Don't patronize me, you can look it up. The OP asked for the best form of government and I think it is a democratic one. Like I said if you think ther...

Suggest a better model or crap off.

But you have simply said nothing.

There are currently 123 democracies in the world of all 192 countries. I am thinking of democracy as an ideal form of government, not any specific spe...

Some form of democracy, which is ruled by laws, and is just and legitimate.

There is probably no way for long lasting peace on earth. However, the world could and should strive to be more peaceful with fewer wars. I think that...

The following from Wikipedia's article on Daraprim: The disparity is shocking, a testament to the massive extortion (your money or your life) Big Phar...

The monogamous practice grew out of polygamy, where the strong, rich beautiful male, got all the babes, unlike those less blessed. If a woman had to c...

Difficult topic. Free speech in USA is pretty much unrestricted, with certain exceptions as you have pointed out. It is so unrestricted that Corporati...

' Pharma Bro' Bloomberg:

Lot of ambiguities, like difference (in kind) between physical and mental ways of doing and understanding. You don't really get a feel for riding a mo...

It will always be the way its been. Organizers, rebels, reformers seize power, And they know without winking that Power must be weld, after all We are...

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There may be a few unregistered racists in the US.

So then "The Real Thing" written in your choice of colored Coke a Cola script

British joke?

Do you think the examined life is necessarily a moral life or that philosophy is the correct methodology for examining life. It didn't seem to work ou...

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Because heaven is free from suffering... but as you indicate heaven has been assumed. Isn't the argument that suffering is a necessary state of man fa...