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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Okay, here's your original post. My questions again: 1) Please explain why infanticide is wasteful (I know this is technically not a question, but I could easily frame it so). 2) Why is it unkind (if it's a viable infant)? 3) Wrt your last point above, do you have the same opinion of embryos...
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    What do you have in mind?
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Evidence please. Perhaps because the majority of those Muslims living in the West are here because they don't want to live in a theocracy? Or as a result of exposure to alternative ways of thinking about things? Evidence please. Moreover, this is just one country.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Nope.
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    No question should be beyond the pale in our search for knowledge. At what point do we become so, in your opinion?
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    Please explain. I'm not sure all people would find it necessarily hard to do (depending to an extent on how it is carried out). A parent needn't necessarily do it. Every person? What of the Hitlers of this world? Why so? Not if carried out in a humane manner. Do you have the same...
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    What's wrong with infanticide?

    The next one in what might become a series.. As with the previous one ('What's wrong with incest?'), the question is pretty self-explanatory. And you might think the answer is too obvious to even bother engaging with this. But I believe there is some mileage to be had here. PS
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    How to Tell if You're Flogging a Dead Parrot

    Trouble with such reasoning is that you exclude posters who are saying unpopular things (which can still be entirely reasonable and make one think about things, or how to argue one's corner better). And things can be unpopular if the forum as a whole, or a particular thread, is dominated by...
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Right, but not every Muslim necessarily follows every twist and turn of the Koran or Hadith or even necessarily knows what the Koran or Hadith say on the matter. So you will find plenty of Muslims - perhaps even the majority - who don't see a contradiction between their faith and being a good...
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    Where is Liberty and freedom? Will it someday become extinct?

    Except there are plenty of Muslims who don't seem to have a problem thinking of themselves as both Muslims and citizens/nationals of a non-Muslim country. It's not necessarily an either/or.
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    How is 'not accepting the act' a true acceptance of homosexuality?

    What definition of Nature are you going off?
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    Ritual Religious Animal Sacrifice

    Assuming it is done in a humane manner and the blood and/or meat are consumed afterwards, I believe it is better than the slaughter of animals for food where there is no religious element as I believe it is important to remember the religious/spiritual dimension of all things (I believe there is...
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    What's wrong with incest?

    Except arguably all of the things you mention above do cause harm to other people, at least some of the time.
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    What's wrong with incest?

    All well and good in those times, but situations change, meaning that what was once sensible/wise advice may no longer apply. Wrt incest, you seem to only be focusing on incest that has a sufficiently high chance of resulting in the birth of children..
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    What's wrong with incest?

    I'm very sorry to hear all that.
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    What's wrong with incest?

    But all this speaks only against sexual intercourse that has a sufficiently high chance of resulting in the birth of children - what about same-sex sexual relations, or sexual relations where at least one of the parties is infertile/sterile?
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    What's wrong with incest?

    I think we've pursued that line of argument to its conclusion :).
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    What's wrong with incest?

    Sure, but for the sake of argument, let's say that the person in question desires a sexual relationship too.
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    What's wrong with incest?

    Potentially a huge number indeed. But what if someone falls for, say, their sibling. No-one else will do for them. Where is the wrong in that?
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    What's wrong with incest?

    Why do you believe that sharing great great grandparents is as close as one should get? Obviously, if your bottom line is 'God forbids it, therefore it is wrong', I can't really argue with that.
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