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I support animal testing almost entirely. I'm against testing on non-human primates and similarly intelligent animals, but okay for pretty much anything else. Before anyone jumps to the defense of cats and dogs, we slaughter pigs wholesale and they're smarter than both of those animals. Our...

Cruelest species on the planet? Nature isn't a huge hugfest itself - humans don't have a monopoly on cruelty. You think a pack of predators cares when it eats its prey alive? That orcas care as they drown gray whale cubs? Dolphins have been known to rape humans and kill sharks that pose no...

I already answered your question: No, that is not what I was saying. The question you just raised is a different one, and yes, I think it has great potential to be inefficient. Criticism means I'm wrong? You criticize cutting taxes in certain places and then raising them in others - but that's...

Cry some more, why don't you? You over-generalized, you didn't mean it, I misunderstood what you meant - why is this even still an issue? Nope. It's just that you claimed you made an argument. Stating that something's dumb isn't an argument. What the hell are you talking about? I see most...

That's good, because that's not what I'm doing. But that's all anyone could infer. You stated "This is Obama's job plan", as though you were going to list/explain/summarize the whole thing, and then made a list of only two pieces of it. Except you kept referring to the "job plan" in totality...

The public works projects/contracts are also part of job creation, so you missed a bit if you were concerned with the job creation portion. You were unclear on what you were focusing on anyway, and my "beef" was that you were misrepresenting information while simultaneously criticizing other...

What does this even have to do with abortion? I assume you're referencing the research linked earlier? That's all potential economic loss. It assumes that each of those aborted potential-people would go on to averagely succeed and contribute to the economy. I've mentioned this before in this...

For someone who's criticizing other people for being uninformed, you do yourself no favors by over-simplifying what the job plan was. Yes, that was part of it - but you also ignore the public works projects for schools and roads, the extension of unemployment benefits, and the support to local...

The most amusing part about that asinine argument is that it overlooks the effect legalized abortion has on drastically lowering the crime rate. You can thank the Roe v. Wade for a large part of the precipitous drop in youth crime during the 1990s (and the long term effects of that). Not to...

Good, chivalry was stupid and sexist and the knights we've idolized since the Victorian era were mercenary cutthroats and good-for-nothing bluebloods. OP, it seems like your real issue with this isn't necessarily the exploitation itself, but rather the double standard that seems to be applied...

I view it the same way I view art critiques. It doesn't really matter how skilled the artist critiquing me is - it matters if they're right or not. I've gotten some of the best advice from people who are awful artist but who happen to be knowledgeable. Besides, the doctor is just recommending...

It sounds like you believe that stuff if you're seriously considering the existence of the Christian afterlife and the idea of Hell. If you didn't believe it, it wouldn't even be a concern. Get your beliefs sorted out first. Do you honestly believe it or not? It's a bad idea to go into religion...

Your sexuality should be a non-issue. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a bigot, by definition. There's no reason you needed to volunteer that information because it shouldn't bother people in the first place. I'd recommend speaking to them on an individual basis and confronting them about it to...

It wasn't insulting to me. You don't speak for every American. I'd say it did. A small group of people, not even another country or something very tangible, were able to completely change the actions and lives of an entire nation (and those in others) while simultaneously devastating their...

I had just turned 11 a few days earlier. I would watch the news in the mornings, so I flipped it on and saw the attack. I'd grown up watching horrible disasters on the news, so the fact that the only difference with this one was that it was in my own country didn't really shock me. I went to...

There's no clear point at which someone becomes a 'man'. It differs by culture and individual. One person may consider themselves a man, while another will view them as a boy since they don't meet their criteria. Likewise, there's not only one trait to maturity, there's many. And someone may be...

Abortion being legal is morally correct, better for the individual, and better for society. The moral argument is a poor one, because the entire thing hinges on whether you consider a fetus a person or not. If you do consider it a person, then wouldn't miscarriage be tantamount to having your...

I didn't say it had to be testable, I said it wasn't testable in addition to not being observable and having no evidence indicating it. That's because those theories actually function on math and the operation of unobserved forces (though we can observe the effects of said things). You can...

I don't think suicide can be considered fundamentally right or wrong. Personally, I feel that if you have the capability to kill yourself (physically), you should be allowed to. I don't think assisted suicide should be a legal option in that case. If you don't have what it takes to kill...

Certain parts of the any creationist view are definitely science. Insofar as the claims they make can be tested or observed. The claim that the earth is 6000 years old, for example, can be disproven with evidence and observation. Just because it can qualify as "scientific" doesn't mean that it...