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I'll tell you one truth about young men and young women that I think is pretty universal, Lacewing, and that is this : for whatever reasons, young guys, say 19, 22, 25 years old, will, almost universally, have absolutely no respect for a female in their age group if they know that she sleeps around...

To expand on my point about language - honestly, I think there's a bit of an epistemological fallacy in this line of PC thinking that tries to take this hyper-literal stance on what words have to mean. You see certain people trying to argue that words like 'retard' and 'faggot' go too far because th...

My post was trying to make the collective point that: a) women are held to different (and, to me, primitively conventional) standards, and b) there shouldn't be anything wrong with having sex for free or for money. So, it seems ignorant and absurd when a man calls any woman a whore, as an insult. I...

I didn't really say anything about the whole narrative about men vs women having a lot of sex, so I guess I'l talk about that real quick because I actually agree and think it's a good point on your end. ..But I do have to say it's largely exaggerated by the internet. You know, you go onto a place li...

I've never understood the mentality of calling women "whores" as if that's some terrible insult. Well, you're not trying very hard if you don't at least understand where the mentality comes from; You don't have to dive very deeply into the most popular religions to find that all of them s...

Let's say there's this massive figure in popular culture with a sizable audience. Could be a stand-up comedian, could be a political commentator, movie star, whatever. Just someone who seems to have a lot of charisma, with a legion of fans at his beck and call. This guy is then invited onto a show w...

I think it depends on where it happened. If these meltdowns got plastered all over facebook, I could definitely see why people still remember it. I would usually say embrace it, you know be the first to bring it up in a conversation - unless you feel like the people talking about it are doing it in ...

I'm not necessarily against the idea of a UBI, I just don't understand why people always jump the gun that the government is the only entity capable of supplying such a thing. I find this especially counter-intuitive, where it's being proposed in a hypothetical situation of a mass work scarcity crea...

This thread concerns the essential philosophical question: Is the purpose of Man to serve the state or is the ideal purpose of the state to serve Man? The attraction to freedom vs the attraction to conceptions of statist slavery? I think that's a false dichotomy - the purpose of the state is to ser...

If there is no higher authority pertaining to morals What? Who proposed that? My point was that I don't want the government to take a specific religion in mind to its foundation. That will lead to its role being more than just the protection of our rights, and draws a pretty clear line to rationali...

Nick_A wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:50 amHow would a government denying a higher authority "guide its people in a certain moral direction, whether that be indirectly or much more sinister.?

I specifically don't want them to do that. Maybe re-read my post and realize that was my point.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools Religion in government is much more characteristic of a socialist policy, because it's an attempt to provide more for the people than the mere protection of their rights. It usually leads to that government attempting to gui...

A lot of software still isn't optimized for quad-core processors even though it's much faster in theory and has been common place for about 10 years. 13 yrs. and only now are 4 core PCs useful sometimes (handbeak)......................while AMDintel are hauking 6 - no 8 no 16 core systems!!!! lol Y...

Then use a proxy to connect to another server of the website that doesn't follow the rules of this copyright crap. And if they decide to take it site-wide, they will be signing their own death sentence that will usher in a new line of social media sites. They won't have to. Here, we got folks advoca...

I hope you're right, Flash, cuz it's that kinda nonsense that floats across the pond and winds up here, in Amur'ca I don't know, the big social media sites like facebook and youtube tend to be pretty good at being region specific. They're not going to implement a very restrictive regulation of anot...