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Tell that to yourself next time when you're hungry.

Are you familiar with Kohlberg's theory of the stages of moral reasoning? According to this theory, people at different stages of moral reasoning reas...

Possibly many/most people have this belief. This is where you differ from the people above. A consequent moral objectivist would either not ask about ...

I pointed this out to a Catholic once, and she was deeply offended and called me immature and disrespectful. There appears to be an unwritten agreemen...

*sigh* I pointed out the trouble ahead. I didn't elucidate all the steps because I figured readers can fill them in on their own.

I keep thinking about this topic as I dig in the garden and pull weeds ... An example: "Life is not a game of luck. If you want to win, work hard." A ...

How do I see what working? Kicking plebeians out of academia?

No, your just giving your view. A view of a non-committed theist.

What are you, five years old, a handmaid, or a slave to need to ask for permission for what to have as your ethical guideline?

But how does it help you with _your_ suffering? You were born, the damage is already done. Your suffering on account of having been born cannot be dim...

Do we?? It seems to me that very few people actually support homosexuals and think they are normal human beings. It seems to me that most people think...

c The question is whether it should be taken for granted that people know or believe this, or that they should. A while back, in Germany, a brother an...

Last I checked, nepotism is still going strong. Then this here is a clue to some underlying assumptions for why people marry: I think strategic allian...

A socio-economic argument against incest is that if everything "stays within the family", the family will have less influence over other people in the...

Again, we'd need to consider the miscarriage rate and the abortion rate, as compared to those rates in the normal population. I imagine they are both ...

The difference at hand is about knowing what the probable outcome of one's actions will be, vs. not knowing. The incestuous person engaging in heteros...

What do you think it is talking about?

Well, you could pick up a cheap women's magazine, and find there instructions on how to contemplate one's life, how to examine it, but you'd probably ...

It's lonely at the top, innit ... :halo:

That's easy. Try to talk to someone who thinks differently than oneself. This quickly brings to the surface one's hinge propositions. The moment in th...

Oh. So you're the one developing the negative side effects of hormonal contraceptives and having abortions? Good to hear.

Yet you bitch about them. Makes you a really bonafide person in matters of knowledge of God.

*lol* "Hormonal contraceptives are safe and effective." Don't you know you're suposed to chant that mantra? By all means, it's the woman who should ri...

Besides, that film is a cautionary tale about what one should expect if one tries to play the system.

*sigh* If they persist in that system, they become complicit in whatever said system does.

There you go. Is it not the case that you hold a vested interest in the proliferation of the stigma associated with psychiatric diagnosis? The stigma ...

How? If they are homosexual and having sex, they are making a point of not procreating. If they are heterosexual and having sex, and are taking steps ...

Mwhaha!

In reference to this: Suppose close blood relatives are concerned enough about producing defective offspring, so they make a point of not procreating....

Too bad the effects of this purge bring only short-lived satisfaction! If something is proposed as a solution to a problem, but you have to apply or e...

If God exists, then nothing happens without God's will. Ergo, God must approve that some are born to sweet delight, while others to endless night. If ...

But once the unhealthy babies are not an issue, the actual question is, Why rely on legal tradition, why adhere to it?

If a high-profile couple demands it and succeeds, it could possibly become a legal precedent.

There you go. So you're no better than the atheists you bitch about.

*awww* If only I hadn't heard this from so many different religious, spiritual, and otherwise "advanced" people, each of them, of course, promoting th...

So are you a functional member of a religious community?

Not my problem. The religious should get their act together and fight their own wars amongst themselves for supremacy, before they go out and pester t...

This is moral realism, though. Might makes right. The downtrodden will not like it. "The existing natural state is that people have children. Because ...

Permissible by whom?

Well, all those hordes of academics had to ensure a living for themselves, publish or perish, as it were, and what offers more opportunity for coining...

It seems to be mainly due to respecting the legal history of how an issue has been treated so far in a particular jurisdiction. Bear in mind that new ...

Do you have the actual statistics? What is the frequency of a miscarriage of a pregnancy conceived in an incestuous relationship, in comparison to a n...

I see you've got your confidence back. On to the next chapter of bitchology!

1. Why call oneself by the ideologically laden term "hard-necked"?? 2. Why would the atheist need to refute anything?? Can you answer?

Christian Anarchism Q: What is the atheist response to Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is within you"? That Tolstoy simply invented his own religion, wh...

But what is "the right thing" to begin with?

Duh. People vote for Trump!!!!

Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.

Darling, let's watch an episode of a reality show (I have in mind one that starts with K, but pretty much any one will do), and you will be proven wro...

Which per se doesn't suffice for religious membership, and God belief without religious membership is worthless.