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jakelafort wrote:Furthermore he was assisted by Russians.

That may be true…but he has an approval rating of 45%. That is, for me, the most shocking thing of all. Despite hiring criminals and idiots and firing them as well as good cabinet members, his hard core bromance with Putin, his deplorable position on family separation, inability to get…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:But Davis he did not win the popular vote.

Yes. Electoral reform is more important in this case. Though good luck changing anything in the US where most people have a strong incentive not to…and thats not even considering the outrageous gerrymandering that goes on. And the UK and Canada are no different. Them and the US are the…[Read more]

In the USA, city of Toronto, Russia, New-South-Wales, they clearly have no problem voting in a obviously undeniable immoral person. In a few European senates, to be eligible you have to have been elected twice as a member of parliament or assembly…preferably in two different jurisdictions or levels. This is an extremely intelligent…[Read more]

Remember when George Bush Jr as president seemed like the election of a know-nothing idiot who made unethical decisions riding on the coat-tails of his father and screwed up much of what he did? Well despite his disasters, people voted him in a second time. And then come one day, an utter scumbucket of the highest level of assholetry is elected.…[Read more]

@simonpaynton That’s precisely what they said multiple times quite directly. To read their paper and conclude otherwise, is to pull a Steven Pinker.

Simon Paynton wrote:According to James Q Wilson in “On Character”, nobody really knows why the crime rate goes up or down.

That’s only part of the truth.. Just like nobody knows why a book was the sold out success it was or why a revolution happened when it did.

But you can extrapolate probable factors that contributed to it. For example the…[Read more]

From what I read in the article, it seems that Pinker was fooled by his own mis-reading. First, the Freakonomics boys never claimed that allowing abortions equalled less crime, besides, abortion has always been going on anyways behind closed doors. The authors gave a probability average of how likely different factors could explain crime spikes or…[Read more]

They compared the rate of violence about 16-18 years after abortion was legalised in some states as well as in Romania after abortion was made obligatory and based on the notable change in Each state so many years later they concluded that parents having children when abortion wasn’t possible (likely because they weren’t ready) the level of crime…[Read more]

What do you disagree to, Bellen?  Are you saying that there are an equal number of women in the decision making arena of this subject?  (SCOTUS has 6 men out of 9 seats).    Or do you disagree that abortion cannot be banned, only delegitimised?

The benefits of having a baby when you are ready. This article, turned into a film, on Abortion and Crime has changed the opinion of several people I know. The only thing I disagree with, is the author’s claim that “these results shouldn’t affect your opinion on abortion” which I think is foolish. If these results discredit one of the reasons you…[Read more]

You cannot ban abortion. You can only ban safe, legal professional abortions.  Women will continue to have abortions, with tools like wire coat hangers or other winceworthy items, they will get septicemia, some will die.  All the legislation is about is when to permit safe abortions.  I think it’s weird that so few women are involved at the deci…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:I and none of my girlfriends have ever experienced anything like this. Ever!

One of my friends says she has never been discriminated against nor faced disgusting behavior. She finds it astonishing that there is still systemic discrimination in hiring practices and promotions and has been extremely shocked by the scale…[Read more]

Bellen wrote:The problem is that there are also women who are against it.

Indeed. Ive personally dealt with friends who have been sexually assaulted (women and LGTB+) and have seen with my own eyes very rapey behaviour and personally intervened at work to stop sexual discrimination…several of my female friends who have never experienced assault…[Read more]

Bellen wrote:I think men need to stay in the fight and not just shrug it off

Yes. Yes. yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeesssssssss YES! Not just shrug it off as a woman’s issue, but also not just shrug it off as if its not such a big deal…and even more so not just shrug the whole thing off as women exaggerating or making it all up.

A lot of it (and women do…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:virtually zero Christian terrorists

That is absolutely NOT true. Christian terrorists were rampant in Northern Ireland until recently and were responsible for extreme bloodshed in Bosnia and Serbia. They were also instrumental in prolonging the Lebanese war and in all three cases they are sporadically active (though in N.…[Read more]

Thomas Paine wrote:essentially all religion as a con job.

I personally think Harris become obsessive about Islam, and I can understand why. Islamic extremism hurts us in the West most, it’s currently more visible and more graphic and the call to “destroying the west” and “down with America” is part of an unambiguous campaign to disrupt our lives…[Read more]

New Atheists. What does that mean, exactly?

New Atheists are atheists, usually from Western countries who take a “no appologies” approach to critiquing religion, promoting secularism and among many agressively attacking religion. They are different than other atheists in that 1. A New Atheist is more than someone who lacks belief in God. The…[Read more]

I’ve read several comment sections on this question…and in fact…it is full of pro-birthers never giving a straight answer. I read a hundred responses and in every case they whine that it is a false analogy, a context that makes the comparison of egg and living being different, not equivalent and mostly…pfff…no answer becaue no matter how I…[Read more]