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I've recently found this thread on the ethics board: http://www.christianforums.com/t7739582/ It's about whether it's okay to legislate morality or not. I find the topic interesting, but I don't think you can give a satisfying answer to the question of the thread without first answering the...

Because the USA is not very good at keeping secrets, apparently. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing in a democratic state.

No, they are not. The USA, the most powerful (or second-most powerful, depends on how you view China) country in the world, is a Christian nation. Western Europe is mostly Christian, too, although I guess they are more secularized then America. What Merkel said about Christians being the most...

Actually, there is. What about the whole censorship debates? SOPA, ACTA, stuff like that? Arguably, those things were in the interest of the state, but not the people. No, the corporations are NOT the people. So you say that the state can just ignore the interests of 0,3% of its population? So...

Primarily, the state has to act in the interest of the people, not itself. Although I'm not even sure allowing gay marriage would somehow damage the interests of the state. There are enough orphans that homosexual couples can adopt and raise. Having fewer orphans is definitely in the interest of...

The heart is in your chest. Your body is, well, your body. The brain is in your head. Spirit and soul likely don't exist, and your mind is the sum of all your relevant neural processes (excluding visual processing, motor functions and the like). Without your brain, your mind could still exist...

Just quoting you so people know what I'm responding too. Looks like you didn't understand my post at all. The paragraph that I quoted didn't contain any arguments at all; those were below. I responded to it with my conclusions (that the statement is false), which I supported later on. So I...

Do it. :thumbsup:

I'm not sure group marriage could work. If it does, I see no reason why it shouldn't be legalized. That's not the topic, however. Yes, I believe this. No, it's not untrue. False. Men and women are embodied? In which way? What do they embody? It would've been nice if the author had made himself...

It is. Now you're telling me that homosexuals should not be allowed to marry because they can't have children. And I'm telling you that sterile people can't have children, either. So why should sterile people be allowed to marry, but homosexuals shouldn't?

We're talking about the USA here, right? Case law, and all? If the courts rule that there's a right to be married, then there is, indeed, a right to be married, as far as I know. Why? Because homosexuals can't have children with each other? Neither can sterile people have children. According to...

There's no contradiction in your view, sure. Now that you say it, I think the term 'tension' is really quite misleading. I don't see how two moral systems which are both entirely consistent could have different levels of 'tension'. If you judge subjective moral systems based solely on your own...

I definitely dream in color. My emotions are also amplified when I'm dreaming, for some reason. Does anybody else have this?

I did the test before even seeing this thread. Weird. I got around 13% tension, as did around 10% of all people who took the test. I used a rather wide interpretation of can. You can carry an old man having a heart attack into a hospital, but he will likely die as a result. Others would say you...

Thanks. :) So God knows everything aside from himself and he has knowledge of himself/self-consciousness/introspection/whatever you want to call it, but not necessarily absolute introspection? Sounds reasonable. I already suspected this. Good to have it confirmed by someone who knows the Bible...

Yes, the child would be disadvantaged, but only if the parents suddenly stopped caring for it. If they didn't, the child would never be worse off than everyone else. Obviously, parents can't help their children, 24/7, as long as the child is alive. They are mortal and will likely die before the...

Omnipotence is unlimited power. If power is limited by the rules of logic, it's still limited.

Hello everyone. There was a discussion here, some months ago, about whether an object with an infinite property (a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, for example) could exist. I don't know exactly who participated in it, but I know that one of the persons who claimed that such an object...

God would be setting them up for failure. Of course humans can't run the world as God could. They are imperfect, he is perfect. For one, we would have definite evidence for the existence of a great flood, for the exodus and for Jesus, and for other miracles and biblical events. What's your...

The existence of a rock that can't be lifted and a being that can lift said rock are mutually exclusive. Both existing at the same time would be a paradox. In the end, it boils down to the question of whether God is bound by the laws of logic or not. If he is, he can't create a rock he can't...