"can't think for themselves" "don't understand the implications of their choices" "need to hear" "intelligent choices" ???????????? You'd make a wonde...
P.S. In the U.S., we pride ourselves on our freedom to make mistakes. If you are a women that regrets having aborted: Lesson learned. If you are a man...
The point is, not having other people make the choice for you. If you look up to, admire, and respect those people, then you can choose to do what the...
I don't know how you got that from what I said. Individuals have lots of choice. They can choose to commit crimes. They can vote. They have a right to...
Right. End of story, full stop. Period. True. If, before birth, she wants our help, or, after birth, then we help. But when the human being is living ...
Societies get to decided which violations of what laws present an existential threat to the society. Homicide is usually a no-go. But we have exceptio...
Because it's none of our business. It's none of our business. It's none of our business. It's their business. Because other people don't mind their ow...
:100: I think I've got some of those books buried around here somewhere. I'll have to dig them out. With the loss of news papers (or their unwillingne...
I disagree. I think that good and evil are subjective, and individual choice can be informed by truth. It's the idea that there must be some collectiv...
I already stipulated that the U.S. permitted abortion so the Freakonomics example does not apply. There might very well be other societies that would ...
You are conflating society with culture. Culture is language, tradition, religion, shared experience, etc. Society is glued together by laws. We have ...
As I opined long ago in this thread, the problem is getting dragged down into nuance, different solutions, sophisticated world views. Pro-choice peopl...
It is, but in the U.S., none on the list can be enforced without due process of law. See Bill of Rights. When you say: you forget that "unwritten form...
I don't agree with that and I kept reading, below. Society is like culture: Yes, it can die. But it can also change. Societies change more often than ...
"They" is anyone. If "they" can't avoid it then "they" suffer the punishment. It means different things to different people. I just don't like the wor...
That analogy is easily distinguished with relevant differences. #1: Y is not living inside of X's body; illegal. #2. Y is not living inside of X's bod...
Deserving is about justice. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/LaXEsKL7O-WVNT3XFfA45PN7zSVqOObmJwrr2GrRjrKBSF7iIu0tuclYaxbIcRRUqI1vL03lNH7rYe0hhT...
Thanks to all who helped out. The person turned their paper in last week and your insights helped. I don't even know what the phrase entails and I'm n...
Originally, I was thinking more about how these characters maintain a sense of inner peace and calm in the middle of a shit sandwich. As to getting ol...
Where no man has gone before, of course! Seriously though, I don't know. If we could go to the past, I'd be hip on the Pleistocene. But even if we cou...
I would like to have that sentence clarified a little bit. Not sure about the use of the word "accuse." Generally, though: My gut has me leaning towar...
He's up on what I call the Wyoming Steppe, land of horizontal snow. Bison (now cattle, in the summer) country. They have a nice ranch but treat the li...
I guess it was a rhino, not an elephant, and while this occurred on an empty street during shutdown, apparently rhino's do this even when there is no ...
I think there is an unnecessary "either/or" thing in the approach to this issue. When I said: I was thinking that maybe we could cut our military budg...
My wife and I were just talking about this very thing this morning. We had many substantial life changes occur (both good and bad), none of which had ...
Does magick exist? Yes. . . . is it possible that the paranormal is more ordinary than we assume? Yes. Does prayer work? I do not know, but I think it...
The freshman text goes something like this: "standardized education is not inherently bad but the way the system is executed is poorly done and neglec...
I can ethically justify killing animals and eating meat myself. I have a hard time justifying my eating of meat that was killed by others who are part...
Wait, I didn't think you got to use that argument? Everything causes death and injury. We're all going to die. So go kill yourself if it's no big deal...
You don't think. Cars and drivers are heavily regulated, they have emission control devices that are not 100%, you have to wear seat belts, obey limit...
If someone gets a stroke and becomes paralyzed, we put the burden of proving it was the vax that did it on the person, using the same standards we mus...
Indeed I am. I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about others. That is the opinion of one who is selfish, inconsiderate and disres...
The recent banning (and the pro-con arguments related thereto), got me to thinking about whether speaking another’s language, in order to communicate ...
That's true, praxis. But you might need a bed for non-Covid reasons. I think some folks have already died being life-flighted to other hospitals becau...
Try quoting me (like I just did you) so I receive notification that you are engaging me. Otherwise, I will assume you are trying to avoid your educati...
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