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Saletan's pilots can sleep!
If Saletan's thesis is correct pilots will sleep during flights. It is a normal function. Why not put in beds in the forward cabin so the pilots can eat, sleep and make love during flights?
Posted to Human Nature by david wayne osedach on October 26, 2009
Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
Re: Safe, Legal, and Early
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is specific: once the fetus is ''viable'' (able to live outside the womb) the state may restrict or prohibit abortions ''except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother'' (as quoted in the Wikipedia article).
Posted to Human Nature by billfalls on May 10, 2009
Safe, Legal, and Early
Saletan's posts on reproductive health issues are usually thoughtful and thought-provoking but usually fail because he mistakes his personal biases in this area for fact or logic. ''Safe, legal, and early'' is no exception. The point of reproductive choice is that the decision is the woman's, not the state's. The Supreme Court in 1973 and in ...
Posted to Human Nature by billfalls on May 9, 2009
Why Pigs are Dangerous
Egypt has recently called for culling the nation's pig population. This has led to mixed outrage and strange support. Poor Christian pig farmers in Egypt protested that pigs are their livelihood, claimed their pigs are healthy, and that its unfair. However, Coptic religious leaders have supported the cull. The largest opposition group in ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on May 2, 2009
SHOCKING: Mom Collects Sperm of Dead Son
If you thought things couldn't be more disturbing, a case in California took place where a grieving mother chose to collect the sperm of her 21 year old son in order for him to have children. The son suffered brain injury from a fight which left him on life support. The mother chose to end life support and collected his organs for donation. But ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on April 9, 2009
Fetus NOT Part of the Female Body and the Sticky Wicket
Absolutism in theory often rides roughshot over reality. A viable, living fetus is NOT a 'part' of the female's body. It is indeed a separate living being WITHIN the female's body. The distinction between a 'part' of a body and a 'separate being' inside a body is when the former is removed from the body at a certain time, it cannot survive. The ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on March 19, 2009
Winning Smugly by William Saletan
Clever! Stem Cell Research becomes Embryo Research becomes Embryo Destruction Research. Problem is Stem Cells are NOT embryos except due to the most convoluted of logic, and the assumption that a Stem Cell has a soul, or rather that if you conduct Stem Cell research you will lose your soul is even more convoluted. Thank you Mr. Saletan for making ...
Posted to Human Nature by sbissell3 on March 9, 2009
Saving Face
Personally, i don't believe in playing Frankenstein. Cutting out your organs and body parts and giving them to someone else, in my opinion, is disrespectful to your body. That being said, I do understand and respect peoples desire to help one another by donating organs, and i understand it can give people a second chance at life. Its says alot ...
Posted to Human Nature by Marshall Law on January 26, 2009
On Human Nature
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Posted to Human Nature by andyross on December 27, 2008

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