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D replied to the topic Are our attitudes toward pedos actually endangering our children? in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago

No Jake. The “every day” element is a silly excuse. It is absurd to claim certainty of something and ridicule those who even withold a position, and then go on to talk seriously and passionately about things that would require the thing you are certain about to not be the case. You are clearly not that certain if “every day life” pressures you…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Are our attitudes toward pedos actually endangering our children? in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago

Enco, you often pack so many points and/or opinion into a post that it’s impossible to respond to all of them, so I’m forced to just reduce and prioritize, while just plain trying to ignore other points.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Why would we want to fuck up all of that good work by adopting a policy of “respect” and “understanding” towards…

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D replied to the topic Are our attitudes toward pedos actually endangering our children? in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago

doesn’t the fact that people can resist acting upon desires, even innate desires, indicate that some form of Volition does exist after all?

Actually, Unseen is certain that there is no such thing as free will. So, in effect, choice, volition, decision etc are totally meaningless. If you could not have done but what you did…then moral r…[Read more]
D replied to the topic Are our attitudes toward pedos actually endangering our children? in the forum Science 3 years, 11 months ago

Why would we want to fuck up all of that good work by adopting a policy of “respect” and “understanding” towards would-be child molesters?

Enco you don’t think logically through many of the things you say. You are a would-be rapist. You have the potential to rape. Men in fact rape women FAR more than women rape men. Would it make sense for women t…[Read more]
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

Has American education ever been top draw?

At a graduate level (MA and PhD) they are definitely top of the line. World class research institutes, MBA programs and prestigious institutions. As for primary and secondary school? Eeeek. What do you expect when so many states underfund most services, actively interfere with curriculums for ideological…[Read more]
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

While it would be idea if we found definitive answers to questions like: what is knowledge, is it moral to buy a homeless man’s kidney, is “thought” a social construct etc. the value of exploring these questions is not just satisfying a human need to know these answers (something some people obviously care more about than others) as well as not…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 20th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 3 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, Reg!
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

Hi Encogitationer,

If a dying person refuses usage of his organs after death, the organs are not used. Therefore the corpse he is about to become, cannot be harvested. It had the right to remain intact when living, under general laws. Once it is dead, it has the right not to be harvested.

The right to not get pregnant is rather optimistic,…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

@simon – why do you think late term abortions are carried out? Do you think a woman gets to 7 or 8 months and then thinks “fuck it, I’ve changed my mind”? Late term abortions are carried out because the baby is deformed to the degree it cannot survive, or the mothers life is massively at risk, or the baby has died and needs to be removed…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

@simon If morals were objective, they would be rules. It is precisely to handle things that ‘feel wrong’ but are within the rules, or ‘feel right’ but are against the rules, that morals are required.

Murder is not immoral, for example. It is illegal.

Morality is the fluffy stuff that bridges the gap between what can be generalised into a rule,…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

@Simon. Unborn children are like undead adults. They’re an invention.

But let’s pretend a fetus has fully working organs, brains and let’s go overboard here, a way of communicating with the outside world.

In whose world does a human being get to leech off another human being without the leechee giving permission? You’ve got a rare blood di…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School November 13th 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

Thanks, Reg!!
D replied to the topic What’s wrong here?: 750+ foreign bases and 20+ foreign wars in the forum Politics 4 years ago

America did shit all militarily as Ukraine has been ravaged. It fucked up in the former Yugoslavia. America’s adventures in Iraq also led to an extreme increase of Jihaddist terrorism in Europe. I fail to see how for a god damn second how America is “protecting” Europe. Enco, you are so f***ing deluded sometimes, you are incapable of seeing past…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic What’s wrong here?: 750+ foreign bases and 20+ foreign wars in the forum Politics 4 years ago

TheEncogitationer wrote:
[…] nor can any Government scheme produce affordable health care and education. When a third party pays, there’s no reason to hold down costs.

The VA health system has saved my mental and physical health. Why? Because people (and enough politicians) care more about veterans. The VA is an example of how a “social w…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic So here's how the GOP is rigging 2024 in the forum Politics 4 years ago

Just a reminder, in spite of the 2022 “red wave” amounting to less than we feared, the 2024 campaign to rig ballot box supervision, especially in Democrat-majority precincts, is (imo) probably still going to happen. With or without Trump. The robustness of it is currently unknown, but I’m afraid these arrogant, entitled-acting partisans are…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 6th November 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

There was a Bob Newhart radio sketch where he and his friend bemoan the boredom of a Sunday, over and over – then one of them realises the clocks went back the night before, and they have an extra hour to hate!
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School 6th November 2022 in the forum Sunday School 4 years ago

Thanks Reg!

Nobody told me the clocks went back last night.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The Republican Party is succeeding because America is not a true Democracy. in the forum Politics 4 years ago

_Robert_ wrote:
It’s a good explanation of the mechanics of it, but not the root causes.

I agree, but am recently thinking there’s more than one cause, and I’m often not sure which to call the “root cause” any more. There seems to be a kindof perfect-storm confluence of causes, where the most gullible or angry citizens are successfully led and p…[Read more]
D replied to the topic Climate activist Superglues himself to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in the forum Politics 4 years ago

Nothing like Joe Rogan to be part of a reliable source of information. Climate change is already disastrous in many quarters of the world and it is insane to claim otherwise. This ranges from now nearly uninhabitable island nations (rehoming an entire nation classifies as a disaster), tap water so toxic it sets on fire, numerous species going…[Read more]
D replied to the topic Climate activist Superglues himself to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in the forum Politics 4 years ago

So here is Enco rationalising limits to freedom of expression (mostly reasonable ones I think) and yet doesn’t seem to have a problem with not limiting free speech when those words contribute towards inequality, terrible suffering of the marginalised and the brutal consequences of radical hate speech. Nice. Clearly it means: limits for things that…[Read more]
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