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what is your view of the Facist State of Israel? Why is everyone so keen on hating Israel? because of the illegal 50 yrs now occupation of the Westbank. under Geneva Accords (which Israel is a signatory). when a nation take land from another nation via war, the former must soon make preparations to...

True. I am Jewish, and I was born ten years after the war. interesting, did not you were Jewish. what is your view of the Facist State of Israel? If any Israeli Jew found out my true feelings about the state of Israel, I'd be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot. Israel and the local ...

To add - I'm not "anti-gun" just not a gun guy myself, being a depressant would kill myself if i had one prob, so refuse to own a gun. to add, more recently, we had a nut (sciophrenic 20 something - who we learned heard after his rampage "The devils voice from the TV" so said his...

You don’t punish someone by doing them right. You punish someone by doing them wrong. Murder is the ultimate wrong, therefore, murder is the ultimate punishment. The punishment can be dealt by an individual, by a group, or by a faceless government. I am not after retribution. There's very little em...

My thought experiment can be taken one more step forward, Logic. You said, you don't want to toy with defining murder, since it has been codified and defined many ways, and the bulk of it is the same. So if I murder a serial killer who would not stop his way, I am a murderer; but if I kill a serial...

Re the previous post: think of assassination attempts on Hitler. Incidently, what happened to Hitler's children? And grand- and great-grand children? Are they aware who they are, who one of their ancestors was? And what's their favourite breakfast cereal? I'm sure Ted Bundy's kid knows who is mom i...

Sometimes murder is NOT at all wrong, morally and/or ethically. Murder can be good and right sometimes. As I have been saying. The onus is on you to provide the counter-example. Until you do. Murder is wrong. By agreement. If I murder a murderer and I do not murder anyone else after; but the said m...

"To murder is to deliberately kill a conscious individual with malice aforethought. To have malice is not to have respect. Therefore murder is wrong. ...by definition." Mebbe so, prof. Still, murder it may be: 'some folks just plainly need to be dead'. yes, though not legally (per The Sta...

I know that murder is wrong. Do you? Some years back I wrote this. It's still relevant and true: WHY MURDER IS WRONG To be wrong is to violate a moral principle. such as "have respect." [Have respect for yourself and for fellow members of your in-group; and continuously strive to widen yo...

yep different folks deserve it for different reasons (but that's between me and them) ----- there's killin' as a defense of self, others, and property: not murder there's killin' for gain: murder there's killin' cuz some folks just plainly need to be dead: murder I endorse the first & third. lo...

Traditionally, the pro-abortion argument has been that it will NEVER tip over into infanticide, because we use the opening-of-the-womb as a hard line between a cluster-of-cells-non-person and a live baby person. Now it's evident that this boundary is not any longer inviolable...we will kill viable ...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:57 am Killing done for any reason other than self-defense.

other than self defence? then ingnore my above post............outside my mention i might do so out of hate - given extreme circumstances, though of course never would be a legal action.

tell me i say it's wrong cuz i own me and take a dim view of bein' deprived of my property...if it's wrong to whack me then it's wrong to whack the other guy (unless he really deserves it) Murder is legal in three cases (only one case i personally affirm as "right"). 1. War (I'm a pacifis...

Marriage and Society It has been stated that, marriage laws are fifty years old and need to be modernised for the 21st century. This is pure political rhetoric. There is no implicit virtue in either age or modernity. The real question is what fits the society we espouse, rather than the society tha...

Related to the OP: Sax makes some interesting observations about sex. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-study-shows-differences-between-male-and-female-brains-in-utero-29208 yes, irony the link is via the "bugger boys" church though. the irony is worth a laugh, though the scienc...