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  1. Alex_G

    Sexual Attraction and Beauty?

    I do think there is a difference between sexual attractiveness and beauty. I think sexual attraction represents our evolved mechanisms to drive the engine of reproduction. What sexually arouses us extends further than say simple visuals. Smell can have a powerful effect on sexual attraction, as...
  2. Alex_G

    Capitalist competition is about increasing profits, not value for consumers.

    Interesting how much power and influence aesthetics has over people, and the degree to which other considerations can be overlooked on its account.
  3. Alex_G

    Capitalist competition is about increasing profits, not value for consumers.

    Yeah im sure your right. I can definitely believe it. Its a shame. I personally couldnt go Mac because you cant tinker about with them under the hood. I love the bulky, messy, rough around the edges, chop and change nature of my pc. Wouldnt dream of changing it for a sleek but slimy mac ever...
  4. Alex_G

    Capitalist competition is about increasing profits, not value for consumers.

    I definitely agree with you that all these businesses are motivated by a central desire to increase their profits. When competition over a certain product or service emerges, the reduction in price is done not out of the goodness of their hearts to the consumer, but to ensure that they...
  5. Alex_G

    Yet another hypothetical (moral) scenario...

    You've inferred that from my answer to the hypothetical provided. The problem with correlating the hypothetical so rigidly with the real world is that the degree of complexity increases exponentially, and with complexity comes many more things to consider that can be, and are overlooked in the...
  6. Alex_G

    Yet another hypothetical (moral) scenario...

    2 dogs
  7. Alex_G

    Yet another hypothetical (moral) scenario...

    Without question that's a yes. It would be as strong a yes for most animals as well for me.
  8. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    No i think it is a pretty ridiculous reaction to the content of what i wrote in the opening hypothetical to be honest. I bet loads of fathers feel strongly about supporting their kids. Thats normal. I mean i imagine in the majority of cases, many of these men do decide to 'man up' if i dare use...
  9. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    Sorry I’m a bit delayed here. But wow, i mean are we sure we're reading the same words here? Going back over the OP, the hypothetical simple delineates circumstances. It doesn’t portray Bill as whining, complaining or refusing anything. As the hypothetical stood, he was actually paying the child...
  10. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    Well, you assume him to be misleading up to engaging in sex. What if he wasn’t? Very possible. But even if he was embellishing the truth slightly, compliments aren’t promises, and any promises he did make need to demonstrate that she justifiably relied on those promises, rather than...
  11. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    I see where your coming from, and i can see how in other cases it could become difficult to judge, but in this example its the mutual agreement and use of contraception, plus the verbal statement of aversion, with the qualification that she 'would do anything to avoid having kids.' This all...
  12. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    The written contract is no more a contract than an oral or even an implied one, its just easier to prove. But given my scenario is delineating the events that you can take as being true, it changes not the rightness of the claim/grievance being demonstrated. Again, to be in writing doesn’t make...
  13. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    Here’s my basic argument, just to reiterate to avoid the thread derailing at this stage, as can easily occur. Man and woman have consensual sex They have sex for mutual pleasure purposes only, both express a clear desire to avoid pregnancy at all costs and demonstrated it through...
  14. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    I sort of disagree, child support seems pretty reliant on the source, (and thus its justification) which is either the father and/or the mother making their circumstances directly relevant to its provision, even if secondary in importance to those needs of the child. Im not sure u can argue...
  15. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    It really isnt a ridiculous comparison for the purposes i intended. I only bring it up to highlight what it is we use as valid justification for most instances of autonomy and freedom to own oneself and correlated it with the man’s situation to demonstrate that it in principle, regardless of...
  16. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    I do agree with you that the rights of a child are paramount, and should be safeguarded first and foremost. But its also a mistake to equate that with assuming therefore nothing else matters, or at least not noteworthy. Im simply highlighting the scope for unjust circumstances that can arise in...
  17. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    I actually agree that the rights of the child are the most important. All I've been doing in this thread is highlighting a potential for unfair circumstances that can be experienced by some men and how such can be missed if you dont consider the detail of the various scenarios. I dont see how...
  18. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    Not the child, i was referring to the child support money being part of his assets to which he has similar claim of ownership as the woman does with her body, thus justifying each to autonomy concerning such things. Perhaps i didnt really write very clearly there.
  19. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    You know i think we've prob reached as far as the debate is going to take us, i dont think given all that’s been said so far, that either position is going to be changed much further. But i will just say here, that a woman dropping off a baby on the doorstep is different, because at some point...
  20. Alex_G

    Hypothetical Regarding Child Support

    Again loaded language only intended to insult and coerce. To try and discredit anyone who's argument challenges your own position. Dirty tactics. Thats not very constructive or admirable... Your welcome to defend the merits of the statement too Jarofthoughts as you seem to endorse it. And also...
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