tom sarbeck

Yeah…to be honest if Santiago Barnebeu, Wembley Stadium or Muray Field were called: Telefonia Stadium, Vodafone Centre or Bank of Scotland Field…it would induce cringes throughout the continent. That isn’t to say it won’t happen (may be inevitable) but the increasing sponsorship is not just tacky but culturally soul destroying. I am unaware of…[Read more]

Many European countries regulate advertising. This ranges from fining companies that put on misleading (or downright false) advertising. The UK can be pretty harsh on false advertising as they should be. Spain has strong laws on predatory advertising. Belgium doesn’t allow advertising that particularly targets vulnerable groups/people. Most…[Read more]

Welcome Doug!  I hope you enjoy debating 🙂

Excellent recommendations for reading are found in our Sunday School group, where Reg (the Fronkey farmer) creates our weekly digest.

There’ll be a new one up shortly, if Reg hasn’t already posted it.

There are different types of intelligence across all animals. If this wasn’t mentioned in any of the videos above, one of the most obvious (to me) differences is about pack behavior. Dogs evolved from wolves, and going to a dog park pretty much always shows how social they are. Cats are less social by nature, more independent, and (I think) more…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
I always take these kinds of studies with a grain of salt. How can one assume child rearing is a bigger factor than genetic predisposition? Dysfunctional parents are not only bad parents but probably bad seed suppliers as well. It’s not like if you took 1,000 kids, raised them the same exact way, they would all turn out exactly t…

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The evidence sways me enough to think there’s a sociological approach to mitigations, e.g. by diagnosing and treating potential mass shooters as having a disease. That’s not just a leftie’s way to excuse them (as some politically regressive idiots might say), but as a possible way to detect early which kids present the most risk, and integrate…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
However, this study seems to discount income differentials.

That’s also been my take for years, as young school shooters have been mostly white and middle class, with one or two parents often clueless that there’s a problem lurking. My impression, sans sociological studies. But if fatherless families correlate with higher risk kids,…[Read more]

Which is not to suggest no one behaves in accusatory manners, but anytime you discuss ways in which the status quo harms you, no matter how much you try to soften it, no matter how much you try to demonstrate you understand that it’s not a matter of people setting out to antagonize you (generally), it’s still treated as an accusation or con…

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Unseen wrote:
But the fact remains that boys from single-father homes are quite a bit less likely to end up as career criminals, drug addicts, or mass murderers than boys from single-mother homes.

Can you point us to the best study that you know of to support this claim? It might also help me assess possible “fixes”. E.g., what percentage of…[Read more]

I think there is a problem with perceived infantalisation and crying wolf.

If by perceived infantilisation, you mean people conflating society at large not tolerating abusive behaviour, allowing people to enjoy their lives without unnecessary menace/bullying/harm with the creation of some kindergarten state…then I agree with you it is a problem.…[Read more]

No Simon I don’t think equating violent verbal abuse with violent physical abuse devalues one or the other. If you have ever been the victim of an extreme prolonged violent verbal attack you might recall that you suffer as much emotional damage and stress as with physical violence and it can certainly result in related physiological harm. There is…[Read more]