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Reason is not incompatible with life. If you are a rational being and you are alive, that's because you enjoy it. So you have life as a value, a moral value. Something that must be preserved and favoured. The purpose of morality is the purpose you unconstiouly gave it when you valued your own...

Guns should be outlawed.

I think easy access to guns should be discouraged, i. e., outlawed.

Nobody here contests that abortions should be discouraged. And the best way to discourage abortions and anything else is to make it illegal.

We care about morality because we care about life and existence. We want to live and as a consequence we intuitively want to favor our existence and others. The purpose of morality is to favor life.

The unit of ethics is values. Values are things that one must work to gain or keep (a simple example of that is nutrition). These values are short-handed ways of expressing moral principles (ex. “we need to eat because otherwise we die”), and moral principles are short-handed way of...

Only military and maybe police should be alowed to use guns. Not common citizens.

Guns should be treated as a weapon of mass destruction.

That's the job of the police, not common people. Just well trained police should be alowed to have a gun. Here in Brasil just police can have guns, and there are many problems with police that are not well prepared to have guns, let alone common citizens.

As an outsider (from Brasil), I see that the biggest problem of US is the easy access to guns. People all around the world have and will always have problems, complaints and depressions. If they don't have a gun, they will engage in an arms fight with one maybe two other people. Give them a...

UNITED NATIONS, June 23, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) has published a draft of a study, due out at the end of the month, which shows that condoms are ineffective in protecting against HIV an estimated 10% of the time. The admission from the UN, which is far...

Would you make sex using condoms with somebody you knew beforehand he/she had aids?

Objective morality exists, and it is the rational morality. objective morality = rational morality

Suppose a woman finds out to be pregnant of twins. Is it right to let her choose to have just one baby and abort the olher?

race and gender definitions are both social constructions, not biological realities.

So it's not genitalia that determines gender, but chromossomes. Yet it's not enouth becaouse not everybody is XX or XY, and there are the XX males and many other genetic disorders.

What makes somebody male or female? genitalia only?

Nobody should worry about "opposite sex".

I think it's impossible to point out somebody's "opposite sex" with certainty. It's a weak and faulty concept.

so opposite sex = different genitalia? Genitalia is everything whe need?