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Tough one. No one and easy answer, as is so often the case in real life. But I'll try. I'm not sure whether it should be considered an offence in all cases... but surely so in those where minors may witness the act. Why? Depending on the kids' ages, that may well place them or their parents in...

She killed another human being for very very selfish reasons. Maximum punishment (whatever this will be in the respective legislation), in my opinion. Can we do anything? Good question. Why is (seemingly) for more and more mothers the relationship to their partners so much more important than...

Thanks for your replies so far... to further specify the imagined situation: Let us assume that the means of a quick painless death are provided by whomever... let's say by the government. (This is in fact what most deeply shook me about the mentioned movie... the sight of long queues of...

Assuming torture would work... it would be a very very nasty decision to make. I wouldn't want to ever have to decide whether to torture someone, that much is sure. No quick and easy answer possible in that case. If many many lives depended, in all likelihood, on applying it... if all other...

(coming late to the thread... oh well) Torture does not work. We know that since the burning times. Nothing in the world can justify inflicting pain on a fellow human without even the slightest chance of any benefit to others. Enough said.

(Inspired by http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ - I hope the link will work for everyone, somehow it seems suspect... if it doesn't work, look up the movie "On the beach" on www.imdb.com - specifically the 2000 version that I recently caught on German TV) So... regardless of what you...

What, not a single proponent of option #1 so far? :cool: Oh well, anyway. #2 here.

Well, I have (maybe) shocked some people here with that Manowar video... time to show the other side of my taste for music :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9flGqz3Jgw More than once people have called me nuts for recording audio tapes with Manowar on side A and this on side B. Go figure :P

Hail sister :D However long I may stay, for now I'm back (I guess) ;)

Well we'll see Vajra. Maybe it's better, maybe it's worse... and if it's worse I can always drop back into the shadows :P

No one easy answer possible I'm afraid. It depends on the specific crime. While I think encouraging crime is never a good thing, not everyone should be harshly punished, as there's more than just one (category of) crime. If I recommended that someone parks her car where she isn't allowed to...

Asatru does not have any official canon or other agreed-upon doctrine, but most Asatruar I know (I trust) will chose your above-quoted option. Whether the individual person affected might want to try and seek spiritual help is another question, but that too (as I see it) depends on the person...

I find something nice in pretty much every style of music except for German "Volksmusik", with some favorites nonetheless. Here's one of them. Warning: Heavy Metal content. If you don't like that, don't click on it. :D (EDIT: There's one line of text in the lyrics that might possibly offend...

Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone ;) Yes I've been fine all the time... just suffering from an increasing workload centered around unusual times of day. That's what happens when you live in Germany and administer servers for the Chinese and Mexicans... workday starts around 15:00 and ends...

*...wonders whether he should enter or leave again* *decides to just watch (mostly) for a while before making a decision* *but nonetheless waves hello to those who might still know him :D *

Okay, that does it. While waiting for the "final verdict" on the thing that made me start this thread, I've received another warning for another thread - a warning that I can only call downright ludicrous. Not because of content itself, but because I can now no longer believe that the rules are...

Heya, not a topic for deep thought I admit, but it just occured to me... "Creationism" is commonly understood as referring to the christian brand of the pseudoscience, as if you'd said "biblical creationism". Just for the sake of semantics, is there any (semi-)official term for the islamic...

You will wait in line until I'm done with this planet! :D

I've never read/watched it, but from what I hear, it's okay. Well, I don't like that type of story personally, but I see nothing ethically troubling about it.

See IO, now that the thread's in the NCR forum, you get the replies you asked for ;)