jakelafort

I’m aware of protests at universities against mass killing of Palestinians, and people calling these protestors “pro-Hamas”, but really, generalizations that all progressives feel that way?

I’ve not even picked sides, because of the crimes on both sides, and the possibility that the only plausible end is Israel completely exterminating Hamas,…[Read more]

Maybe look at things from a British Muslim girl’s POV:

Immigrants don’t need to integrate, you do

Also, you guys remain stuck in the habit of attributing the behavior, beliefs, actions, crimes of just some to group as a whole.

_Robert_ wrote:
And we can look at real crime data as well. 6.5% of the population accounts for 18.1% of the prison population. So almost three times the crime rate.

So, in Great Britain Muslims (who, let’s face it, face prejudices there) constitute a percent of prison population 2.78 times greater than their percentage of general…[Read more]

One of the stated tenets of Atheist Ireland is “You have Rights, your beliefs do not”.

@jakelafort – Reg, do you think most of the deconverted are happy to have had their world view challenged and deconstructed?

In the long run, yes.  When Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison, he may have missed the social life he had with his friends inside but he never thought that returning to jail would be a solution. Returning…[Read more]

But it’s the same thing, to tar a whole group with the same negative brush.

Scientifically speaking, there is only one human race: Homo sapiens. The concept of different “races” is a social construct, not a biological one. We share more than 99.9% of the same DNA. Any physical differences are superficial and not indicative of any fundamental b…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Ah, OK. A religion is a race now. Sorry, that’s profoundly dumb and you should know better. If someone believes and practices Islam as written and taught, they immediately drop 50 IQ points. Just look around at Muslim countries. AKA Shitholes. How many are democracies? What is their standard of living? How many are d…

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Just Exactly How Many Scandals Can the GOP Fit Into One Week

About 6-1/2 minutes, if you skip the 3-1/4 minute ad in the middle.

_Robert_ wrote:
This is what fundamentalism does for you. And they are hell bent on spreading that misery everywhere.

Facts. And when those life stories of abused and made-dysfunctional human beings get to the point of “righteously” destroying the rest of humanity, the only thing we can do is remove them by force, and let Allah sort them out. I…[Read more]

@ Jake and Robert

Yada yada, yada…

It is wrong/unethical/immoral to make sweeping generalizations about a group, even Muslims.

Additionally, it’s illogical. It’s the fallacy of composition.

Example: Some people have turned a novel idea into a million dollar business. So, anyone with a novel idea can become a millionaire.

Despite all your…[Read more]

I’d still reserve compassion for the inbred kids, at least. And then the religion and culture they grow up in screws them up even further.

I understand where Unseen’s coming from.

A vaccination against Trump could save us from tons of distress and dysfunction. Nip that reverse evolution in the bud. Make wearing condoms a family tradition.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Jewish people tend to be liberal in their attitudes (liberal in the sense Strega used it – not Orthodox) and are progressives on the core issues of civil rights for all citizens, more open to immigration and strongly support the separation of Church and State. These policies align more with traditional Democratic P…

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Now that we’re discussing, apparently seriously, whether Muslims are, as a group, stupid, shall we also ask the same about black people?

jakelafort wrote:
’ve wondered whether Muslims are innately lower in intelligence.

Wow…just wow.

All religions are superstition, but almost all advances in the past have been made in the context of some religion or other.

Jews have made many great scientific and mathematical contributions which have changed the source of history, but so h…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I agree, perfection is just a subjective opinion. A living entity just needs to evolve to be the fittest for its environment. That is, it has adapted to survive in the environment it exists in.

And, typically, it continues to evolve toward a perfect solution, rarely, if ever, actually achieving it.

I was only talking about this last week with a friend who is a medical doctor from Pakistan. Marrying someone related to you is very common. I learned a new term during that conversation…..consanguineous marriage…read more here.

I agree, perfection is just a subjective opinion. A living entity just needs to evolve to be the fittest for its environment. That is, it has adapted to survive in the environment it exists in.