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I wish the guy didn't have a gun in the first place so less innocents would die. I propose we ban all guns from civilians.

No. The fact that murder exists means that there is some genetic benefit. The fact that pedophilia exists means that there is some genetic benefit. The fact that war exists means that there is some genetic benefit. The fact that whale backbones exist means that there is some genetic benefit.

you could just ban all guns (amendment needed). i guarantee that with a knife or bat he wouldn't have gotten 8 people. I believe he took an AK-47 from his stepdad. Then again, without civilian gun ownership Queen Elizabeth could walk all over us.

you're arguing against his metaphor, not his point.

how is a bar providing a dangerous work environment (filled with cigarette smoke), where if someone works there full time for a dozen years they have a 1% chance of dying of cancer different from a construction company not using safety equipment, where if someone works there full time for a dozen years they have a 1% chance of dying from an accident?

at some point productivity is gonna cap out and the interest on our debt will continue to grow exponentially

i was 21 raised catholic when i saw it and i didn't grasp the hidden meanings behind it 'till someone told me. Still there's blatant brainwashing for kids that is bad and should be stopped: http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/!@...p;*les/lumb.php

So what you're saying is that does not generalize to "there is no proof for X, and therefore any belief in X is based on suc!@#$%^&*bing to some level of stupidity"??? why is the god issue different than any other philosophical issue?

there's no proof for any philosophical issues almost by definition. That doesn't mean believing them is stupidity. murder is wrong. want proof? I don't have any.

yeah i always thought that the teachers in high school can pretty much change your grade to whatever they want, especially when they say 30% is based on ambiguous things like "participation". That means they can swing you up or down a letter grade and you can't say boo. It gets much better in college.

what the !@#$%^&* does that mean

again, what's stopping someone from saying the same thing for a construction company that refuses to use safety mechanisms?

irrational means without reason, whereas if you read philosophy they (try to) have reasons for everything they say. The difference is that philosophy attempts the explain things science can not and never will be able to such as "what is the meaning of life?" or "what is knowledge?" or "what is morally right and wrong (is there such a thing?)?".

I meant that being an intellectual and being religious are not mutually exclusive. philosophy is NOT irrational!

I think the purpose of those laws is typically to protect the workers. So like in a bar the bartender might not smoke but breathing in 2nd hand smoke all day isn't healthy. One might say the workers would go somewhere else if they cared enough about it, which is a fine point. However, you could use the same argument to justify any unsafe work condition which creates a slippery slope. What is ridiculous is that some states are passing laws banning things like smoking in your own car, which seems like a big invasion of privacy. The difference between big tobacco and big marijuana is that smoking causes lung cancer. There haven't been studies on the long term effect of marijuana smoking (that I know of) and the best people can do is intuitively guess that all smoke is bad and therefore causes lung cancer. Even !@#$%^&*uming smoking marijuana causes lung cancer, there's other, non-cancerous ways to consume it. Firstly one can cook it into brownies (google space cakes), and secondly one can also vaporize pot. In the latter, the plant is heated until the THC (the fun stuff) evaporates into the air and you breath that in, without burning anything. Tobacco, on the other hand causes cancer in pretty much all forms. In terms of ease of growth, I've seen pictures of people growing one strain (low ryder) in dixie cups! Try doing that with tobacco.

It's easy to make children believe anything you want (santa claus, monsters under bed), so we should be more careful with what we present to them. it's not a good thing when religions try to brainwash kids and it's not a good thing when atheists try to brainwash kids either. Let them get older and get some mental capacity before we throw these large issues onto them.

let's try again: religion is philosophical whereas intellectuals follow a scientific approach they're not necessarily mutually exclusive, except (possibly) when they overstep their domain (for example, religion saying Jupiter can't have moons or science explaining what's morally right and wrong).

from one of nbv's christian sources:

religion is a set of beliefs, not a set of non-beliefs

Artificial Insemination

i know farmers who do but people who smoke something like two packs a day times 20(?) cigs per pack is 40 a day. I'd be hard pressed to find someone who can smoke 40 joints a day, every day (!@#$%^&* even in one day would be a feat). with pot you can smoke a joint or two one day a week and be content. Plus with tobacco you have to dry it for weeks if not months, whereas you can dry weed in the microwave if you're don't feel like waiting a few hours.

it's different in universitiies, as there's some classes where 30% is a good score on a test (maybe because the professors come from places like europe hmm). anyways, even if funding has risen exponentially, so has the number of students as well as inflation. how's the per-student funding adjusted for inflation look?

first do what purge said then try using all the different color depths to see if you can get it to appear

I don't think everyone would grow it themselves. It's like growing your own produce is legal and fine, but we're americans !@#$%^&*, we want instant gratification for zero effort.

yo that girl from lazytown's a lesbien: http://rshl.org/forums/index.php?topic=18082.0