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  1. Gjallarhorn

    Revenge vs. justice?

    It teaches that something is wrong but makes no effort to teach how to correct the action because we magically assume people over the age of 18 are able to reason out every legal dispute in the book.
  2. Gjallarhorn

    Revenge vs. justice?

    No, but if it doesn't punishment certainly won't help. Rehabilitation teaches people ways to better live in society whereas retribution teaches...nothing, or at least nothing positive and especially as the primary method of correction.
  3. Gjallarhorn

    Revenge vs. justice?

    "What they deserve" is anything but empathetic. It's a human bias that we associate other people's faults with their personal failing and our own faults as the product of circumstances. Empathy would dictate rehabilitation, not "justice".
  4. Gjallarhorn

    Revenge vs. justice?

    Justice is just loftily worded revenge.
  5. Gjallarhorn

    Another school-related mass killing.

    Ah. The "nice guys" have learned to operate firearms. Now we're all dead.
  6. Gjallarhorn

    Share your Tattoo's

    Once again I play the bearer of bad news: Celebrating Friendship
  7. Gjallarhorn

    What is Deja Vu?

    I would imagine... Dopamine Functions
  8. Gjallarhorn

    Do we have a moral/societal/ethical duty to have children?

    I'll do it! Moral duty is something we all choose. We have no more obligation to procreate than we have to kill, or eat, or work, or sleep.
  9. Gjallarhorn

    Share your Tattoo's

    ...is that Zibu?
  10. Gjallarhorn

    What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    And understanding that exceptions to findings are included in the findings would be part of any 101 class as well.
  11. Gjallarhorn

    Atheism, Autism and Narcissism

    Cynthia, you really should get over your "fight fire with fire" tactic, if only because it hasn't worked yet.
  12. Gjallarhorn

    Assisted Suicide - Yay or Nay?

    "When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence." -Zapffe Yea, to all scenarios.
  13. Gjallarhorn

    What is Deja Vu?

    My guess would be something similar to schizophrenia. Schizophrenics sometimes have the incoming data "time-stamped" for an earlier time, which is why they think the TV is reading their mind. In this case it would be a stream of data being stamped for two different times, or the brain trying...
  14. Gjallarhorn

    What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    So, at what point have you looked into any study detailing the effect of abstinence-until-marriage education vs. comprehensive sex education? What are the odds a single girl on a talk show would be portrayed as a confident woman who consented to sex and suffered the consequences? America at the...
  15. Gjallarhorn

    What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    Abstinence until marriage is abstinence-only. Adolescents aren't given proper education on the use of contraceptives or, in my home state, aren't even legally required to be given accurate information about sex or STDs. More open societies have lower teen pregnancy rates because they are...
  16. Gjallarhorn

    What's your diagnosis?

    I'll take 50!
  17. Gjallarhorn

    What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    Uh, no he wasn't. The fact that anyone would even consider it means they have never looked at the studies regarding teen pregnancy and STD rates related to abstinence-only programs.
  18. Gjallarhorn

    What does a tattoo say about a person?

    Depends on the individual. They either speak to a deep connection someone has with something or how short-sighted they are.
  19. Gjallarhorn

    The Word is true

    Can this be moved to the same-faith debate section? The assumptions required to debate this point are obviously Abrahamic.
  20. Gjallarhorn

    What does "No offense but..." mean to you?

    "No offense but..." means "I don't have the cojones to say this plainly, but..."
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