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Actually, I'm hoping that it's the case. I'm hoping that lies like the inauguration crowd size, him calling the media "among the most dishonest people on earth", and this "but I actually won the popular vote!" are just due to him being an insecure narcissist. The alternative, that he's doing it...

First up: I get the feeling you think I'm a christian ("cloak of the bible") who thinks lust is wrong and/or that woman dressing in a way that can incite lust is wrong. All those things are incorrect. I'm an atheist who thinks that you should lust just as much as you want to (as long as you're...

I'm not a fan of advertising when you have a (somewhat) captive audience, as is the case in cinemas. If you're in the middle of a row you can't get out easily, and the sound is set at a penetrating volume. Now, people know what the general deal is. You pay $10, you sit through some adverts for...

You can call it absurd, but look at the evidence. Judging by the rights the culture/government gives you, would you rather be a citizen of a western country, or some country in the Middle-East or Africa? If the latter: are you planning to move?

In general, more viewpoints can help make better decisions, but sometimes different viewpoints are just incompatible. Human rights wouldn't "improve" if ISIL was allowed to have a say in them. That, and the west in the past ~500 years just has a freer, more developed, more dynamic market place...

It depends a bit on which country you're living in, but assuming it's one of the western/nordic countries, a pretty high percentage of your tax money is being spent on the public good. Even if things aren't free, they are probably being subsidized to a very high degree. Or the money is spent on...

I've thought about this topic a lot, but haven't really come up with a coherent answer. "The goal was never to tolerate everything, but instead to tolerate others who are simply expressing themselves while causing no harm to others." I like that idea, but there are situations where it isn't...

Making GM foods fertile or infertile is a design choice. Depending on the method used, infertile plants can help the company recoup the costs of developing the plant (research is expensive!). And infertile plants are also a good argument against the common objection of "what if the GMO escapes...

All foods are "genetically modified" when compared to their ancestors, but for some reason only modifications done in the modern, accurate way get the label of "GMO" while the old fashioned methods like "ok I have no idea what happened when we crossed these two strains but I guess it tastes...

Sure, keeping your BBQ smells on your property may be impossible, but maybe that says something about the desirability of bbqing near other people. I for one don't really appreciate the smell of burned pig corpses (or worse: fish. Oh god the stench of fish on the bbq). If it happens once or...

It's hard to change a body plan. First, there are low-level systems (acting inside a embryo when it's just a blob of cells) that determine what becomes the top/bottom and what becomes the left/right, and that then say that every combination of top/bottom/left/right gets a limb, and that forming...

"The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these" If you *honestly* think that breaking a law is the more loving thing to do, I'd think that Jesus approves. Edit: of course, you also want to avoid the sin of pride: you are not...

The first image on her webpage is currently some arab (?) band prominently displaying a (knockoff?) Fender stratocaster. The stratocaster is actually quite an iconic item in my cultural background, and somewhat important to me personally. Both me and Leo Fender are white, so I'm now allowed to...

Sure, the painting in question only concerns Japanese cultural heritage, but the opinion of a random Chinese girl is still evidence that it's offensive to the Japanese right? Japanese, Chinese, it's all interchangeable.. ? What I really appreciate about Japanese culture (or at least those...

The problem isn't the existence of plastics, the problem is that people throw it away. My grandma still uses plastic items that she bought 50 years ago. That's much better than someone who throws away all their stuff and replaces it with the latest 'green' items every 2 years.

Graduated in 2005 from a Dutch publicly funded Christian school (yes, we have those ^^ ). In general my experience may match his for a bit. High school doesn't teach you how to be a good citizen/person. It teaches you some of the basics in many different subjects. Some of those basics are "good...

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I wasn't even aware that the thread topic was development policy. The excerpt you posted mentioned that there are still some issues in western countries (and I haven't seen anything to suggest that the mentioned issues are more prevalent in the west than in the rest of the world), and it then...

Sure, people who actually live in a country know more about that country than people who have only seen stuff on TV. But even if the caricatures they we see on TV are incorrect, there are still very real differences in standard of living between countries. And by objective criteria (access to...

Oregon mom says fear of her autistic daughter caused United to divert flight - The Washington Post From a passenger: "The child would make noise every now and then, no louder than, say, a baby crying,” and from another: "There was a lot of howling, and we thought well, what’s...