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>Argue from the text and then I will be happy to respond in depth. I'm not going to waste my time knocking down straw men. Wow, I must have struck a nerve. >See here for an incredibly perverse result of "psychiatry". >man jumps off a of a fourth floor balcony with his two kids; one dies and the other survives. He gets of with
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It sounds like a suicide, not an accident. :(
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Do none of you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster? The "invisible hand" of economics is in fact His noodly appendage. He intervenes in the free market at every point to make sure His utilitarian plans unfold.
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Abberant behavior is the result of acting on unusual subjective preferences, and cannot be caused by a brain abnormality. For example, if a person lies about in a coma, they are just being extremely lazy and on a hunger strike, not really mentally diseased. Or if a child is faliling their limbs violently, they must be having a temper tantrum, not having
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"Also, @Baxter: That sounds an awful lot like relativism." Thanks, I wasn't sure what it was called. I think my feeling my ideas on morality aren't very well developed.
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I don't believe in any absolute standard of morals - there is only what various cultures deem convenient to adopt at various times. Morals cannot be objective because it is easy to concoct moral dilemmas with no unambiguous answer. Like humans, animals also possess morals. For example, for lions, it is customary to devour others' offspring,
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> "11) "Homosexuals," it said, "not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities." - Gay pride parades make this point pretty self-evident." Only the homosexuals can decide whether they are better off or not, according to their own subjective preferences
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Screw extinct animals. Nathyn, when you can build me a house out of Spotted Owls, let me know. If a species was so valuable, surely some capitalist would have preserved a few specimens, and, owning the only such specimens in the world, would have made a ton of money back? Get real. Species have gone extinct for billions of years. In fact, Mother Nature
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> Wouldn't dictating that someone owns themselves mean you're owning them? No, proclaiming that someone owns themselves means that you intend to treat them as an economic actor, rather than as property. They might choose to treat themselves as property, but you have no need to respect that choice. I see it as a practical matter. If a slave
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"I don't own myself" essentially means "I don't own my self", which is a condradiction, since "my" implies that the self belongs to the speaker. I wouldn't believe someone who said that. If BP said "I don't own BP" that might be believable. I would conclude that BP was a non-living android and