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  • Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET

    Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Sad

    Without any scientific mechanism to explain the transformation from ape to man (genetic mutation explains the loss of functionality for a biological system, not the addition of a system); and subsequent delegation of descent to fictional ''common ancestors''; mankind can still find a way through science[fiction] to defend the ''rights'' of animal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Metastasio on July 2, 2008

  • Of mice, men ... and apes

    I'm Steve Joordens, a tenured professor from the University of Toronto Scarborough. I have discussed the issue of animal equality with my class because it is one that always provokes deep thought and discussion. I recently formalized this by asking them to react to a target piece in which I argue that the only way for humanity to move forward is ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Joordens on July 2, 2008

  • NPC & Larry Sinclair

    Re: ''merely providing a forum for Sinclair is unlikely to get them in trouble.'' But that doesn't mean that they made the correct, ethical choice. The NY Times, WaPo, and all major newspapers routinely reject ads that they feel would discredit their news organization. NPC have a choice, they are not mere captives of anyone who knocks ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Madame Defarge on June 19, 2008

  • McCain's Brain

    So he is supposedly physically fit. If that is the case then why on God's green earth is he able to collect $58,000 a year in disability. He takes $58K in tax payer money a year because he is supposed to be totally disabled. I am confused. Why is this not a topic of discussion in this campaign? If he is truly disabled physically why can he hike ...
    Posted to Politics by Corleone on June 13, 2008

  • Run, Chicken, Run

    As a vegan who lives in the country, grows as much of her own food as she can, and works for Farm Sanctuary, which operates the largest rescue and refuge network for farm animals in North America, I find, ''Notes on the urban chicken movement'' deeply disturbing. To enter into the business of killing, and continuing to do so – fighting every ...
    Posted to Food by tbarry on June 13, 2008

  • Perhaps...

    ...a tad less bloodlust and iamgod and a bit more regret and gratitude to the living being who provides you with nourishment would make you less really really creepy..
    Posted to Food by KYN1643 on June 11, 2008

  • No basis to redefine marriage.

    Having cast away the very basis to define the words right and wrong, how could the mormon's be ''wrong?'' For that matter, how could the gray rights campagn be ''right?'' Don't you mean that your view is less inconvient in your eyes, instead of the ''right?'' Or do we bow to your ''right'' to define social norms. We should just skip the free ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Father of five on May 26, 2008

  • Little Green Men: Person-free humans equals slaves?

    Legally these non-implanted, 14 day embryos are not ''persons''. The notion that they are human is lost on no one especially the scientific research community. Why else would their research be so valuable for humans unless it was performed on humans? Note the word valuable, we combine it with the idea of humans that do not legally exist as ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Father of five on May 26, 2008

  • vegans are just ethically consistent vegetarians

    Vegans are ''intense,'' huh? Sounds too me like you haven't applied your own advice to meat-eaters - to view you as being a normal person who happens to eat things without eyes - to vegans. I was a vegetarian for a whole year until I realized that my reasons for going vegetarian (I wanted to stop causing suffering and death to animals; I ...
    Posted to Food by jenhowell77 on May 8, 2008
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