Recent content by TeddyKGB

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    Illegal Drugs!

    Which laws would legal cannabis-users start breaking? No one has suggested that a campaign of government-sponsored pro-cannabis advertisement ought to accompany legalization. I have a good sense that non-users don't generally consider marijuana undesirable merely because it is illegal; the...
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    Illegal Drugs!

    Please turn in your libertarian card at the nearest convenient dumpster.
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    How DOES a Christian help a homosexual deal with their homosexuality?

    And Jesus's point was that everyone does that no matter how hard they try not to.
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    Have you ever changed your mind...

    Perhaps less important than changing how a person feels about someone or something is critically analyzing how he or she seeks to convince everyone else that his or her feelings are right. Casting the public debates in that light, then, takes us from the absurdist, "Everyone should deem gay...
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    Areolaphobia in the Unted States

    Where have you been? Those societies are still around: We openly lament the way their patriarchal religions degrade women and blame them for producing all the terra-ists. Worse how? Surely urination doesn't trip our sex-detectors like female breasts?
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    Areolaphobia in the Unted States

    Hard to believe that in the internet age we still can't eradicate this bloated myth about Rome falling because they fell away from Puritan sexual standards. That's a fantastically dumb question. "Ultra conservative" compared to whom?
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    Areolaphobia in the Unted States

    Your teenage son does not need broadcast TV to experience female nipples. Our attitudes toward potentially sexual imagery are largely what we tell ourselves they are. This discussion does not occur in France or even England.
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    The Soul

    The "can't prove either way" position that implies that without deductive certainty, we have no way of reasonably deciding between options.
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    The Soul

    Except your blanket statement is false. At the very least, the various -asias and -osias associated with site-specific brain damage are strong evidence that the 'soul' is not meat-independent.
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    The Soul

    If my immaterial soul contains all the stuff that makes me me, why do I need this fragile, resource-hogging, meat brain?
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    School Prayer

    So one minute of Catechism per semester is going to counteract the hours of Catholic-bashing that fundamentalist Baptists and Church-of-Christers encounter at home and elsewhere? One minute of Koranic prayer will set right all the anti-Islam propaganda? Right.
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    Discussing Abortion Without Reference to Religion

    Metaphysical or ontological.
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    Discussing Abortion Without Reference to Religion

    No, according to philosophers. Y'know, those guys that do philosophy for a living?
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    Discussing Abortion Without Reference to Religion

    I mean that legal definitions and philosophical definitions are not always in perfect harmony. Atheism is not philosophically defined as a religion.
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    For all you atheists

    What's the substantial difference between, "I know all atheists are X" and "I know everything about everything"? Aw, look who's self-important. How adorable. Personally, when you make credibility-killing statements, I no longer feel any obligation to offer sophisticated counterarguments. I...