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Including the details of infancy and the graphic removal of the head serves no purpose, but to give unearned emotional weight to your point. In a court of law, evidence with such unnecessary details will render even relevant facts inadmissible. My morality is based on higher principles and not...

This is all too often untrue. Most abuse of children is perpetrated by parents, It is a wonder why the top ten list of commandment contains no admonition against child abuse or slavery for that matter. Parents need some outside accountability. All too often parents treat their children as...

I appreciated your ability to not get side tracked, and you actually answered the hypothetical. Your hypothetical is disingenuous. You are setting me up to say something horrible. Answering it would be more prejudicial that probative, But, since you followed through, I feel compelled to...

Very doubtful. Besides a one in a million incident with a crackpot teacher, there is no such content being delivered at that age. Get real. Spurious correlation. The death penalty is not a deterrant for crimes borne of impulsivity and hopelessness. What Nine percent of the population does...

Says the dude who of late can only manage to pop out a few emoticons in response to me.

The goal of educating children about sexuality does not come from a sexual feeling. Isn't it obvious that children need some information about sexuality prior to having their own sexual feelings. There can be a discussion and reasonable disagreement over what is age-appropriate. Your blanket...

The question is why would it be rational to expect creatures to take a servile and supplicatory stance toward their creator especially when the form of the creator's dictates can be proven speculative? If humans create a humanoid being, would we necessarily expect the humanoids to follow the...

Why are living self-aware beings fully capable of self-determination, beholden to the mechanics that created them? The human brain is a network of neurons that excite or inhibit each other. The mechanics of our biological computer do not erase our consciousness, identity or autonomy. The...

It is a disappointing dilemma that perfectly reasonable folks end up holding immoral views because of their religion. People would not fly planes into buildings without their religion. People would be much less likely support to the escalation violence in the form of capital punishment for...

Yes it is. It's an opinion I support. This is where you are suppose to refute it! Because you say so. Because you think your book says so. This is where you are suppose to refute the evidence I provided and offer your own to support the notion that you have access to an absolute source of...

Even if there is creator, it does not follow that he/ she/ they has/have the power to declare what rights their creation can have. Living sentient beings are not property. If humans create sentient artificial intelligence, we would be acting immorally if we tried to dictate rights based on the...

🤣 Most accurate post ever!

The premises of It is good to exist and existing in a state of well-being is better than in a state of misery are foundational and are technically discretionary, but only obliquely so. Who makes the claim it is better to not exist? You point to basically suicidal individuals as proof that...

The right to liberty can espouse any number of things. Much of everything else that you consider a privilege or permission probably falls under the right to liberty. When you claim this kind of thing you strip the concept of rights of any actual meaning. My neighbor was killed by a drunk...

necessary evil positive neutral positive when balanced by capitalism obvious good with caveats Red waste raving

There is some overlap. I arrive at my conclusions independently of any group. Anyway to answer your question, these two seem optional and nonessential. Art is optional. Good enough is good enough. Not everyone needs to be involved with it.

This story can be traced back to a time when Western and Eastern Indo-European languages split, which was approximately 5,000 years ago, which means that it predates the Bible and even Greek myths. https://phys.org/news/2016-01-phylogenetic-analyses-fairy-tales-older.html I know. You don't...

This blacksmith fairy-tail predates the Bible by thousands of years. It symbolizes humanity's need to balance knowledge with restraint.

Agreed. The Bible can be the source of valuable lessons. It is only a trouble when people attempt to be overly literal and claim that clear absolute imperatives can be derived from it. The literal truth of a matter is irrelevant when evaluating parables. The larger truth is only symbolized by...

What about the blacksmith?