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  1. nilsz

    Sex work

    Yesterday I saw a documentary about the British sex industry, Prostitution - What's the Harm?. In Britain, buying and selling sex is legal provided that it is not done in public spaces. Public space does in this case not include the Internet, which has allowed for a booming sex industry online...
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    'Miracle' face of Jesus appears in South American landslide

    In heaven, all your questions will be answered.
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    'Miracle' face of Jesus appears in South American landslide

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    Mentally ill Afghani woman brutally beaten and burnt to death for allegedly burning Qur'an.

    This is the part of the story you react to?
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    Are all people Honorable and Good

    Do you mean God in a metaphorical sense or a literal sense? If the latter, why?
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    Are all people Honorable and Good

    There has been some research on contributing factors to anti-social behaviour, which one might look into. Oy what postmodernism. What is regarded as fact is decided by cultural values, yet there are things that we can reasonably expect to agree upon. I find it honest to act according to one's...
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    The Misguided Message of Men's Rights Groups

    I find sentiments against feminism increasingly rampant. I am not sure where it comes from, but I notice that some give fringe self-identified feminists disproportionate attention. Typical is mention of Swedish feminists who have seeked to forbid men from standing while peeing (though generally...
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    "Anti-theist" kills 3 Muslim students

    This is a tragedy. The death of these people is a loss to their community. Human lives are always more important than religion/non-religion.
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    Jesus Christ (learning salvation)

    From how you have described the scenario, the answer is unknown.
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    "Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail"

    Refusing to vaccinate your children is an indirect interference into other people's lives. The harm caused increases exponentially the more people omit vaccines. At it's ultimate, we would see the horrific pandemics that convinced people of the past to inject their children with primitive...
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    Linux

    One difficult stumbling block for many users is their unwillingness to give up applications that have not been ported to Linux, in particular Microsoft Office and iTunes. Linux applications tend to be ported to other platforms, but not so much vice versa. This is by no means Linux developers...
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    Are women more likely to become parents than men?

    Considering what 4consideration pointed out, the number of fathers and mothers should be about the same. Things complicating the question include the unequal male-female birth ratio and life expectancy, adoptive parents, parenting among same-sex couples, and transgenderism. An interesting case...
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    Obama is just an utter disaster for this world

    There seems to be no shortage of legitimate complaints against Obama's presidency, but in what manner does he support Hamas? With both Bush and Obama, the president's decisions concerning the Iraq occupation appears to have ignored good advice.
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    "The Marketplace of Ideas"

    A lack of education and understanding of a topic probably cause people to be easily mislead by simplistic narratives. Politics touch a great variety of topics, and voters can not have a firm grasp on all of them. Reaganomics may seem like a good idea to many industrious people who would like...
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    Could Jesus Have Been Simply a Fraud?

    I am confident in the academic consensus that there was a historical person on which the Biblical Jesus is based. I am not sure if you can call it fraud if you genuinely believe in what you preach, even though it is wrong. We have seen it plenty of times with modern miracle men.
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    The Generalization Thread

    The sky is blue.
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    The debate of free will

    One that can theoretically be reproduced through deterministic computation.
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    The debate of free will

    Because your mind operates within a more-or-less deterministic system. If you are informed that someone is in need of help, you are ideally prompted to assist. The information that was given to you caused you to take action. How could non-deterministic behaviour improve such decision-making?
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    The debate of free will

    Those are not exclusive. They may very well not be. But could not a hypothetical human that is deterministic make decisions at least as well as one that is not?
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    The debate of free will

    A deterministic computer can make decisions. Why can not a deterministic human?
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