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Private forces can use nuclear weapons too?

UNSW combined Arts/Medicine is the sole reason I have free time :).

Psychiatry and radiology come to mind. Also, lab based pathologists have to deal with samples but won't necessarily have to take them. And yes, medicine comes with a certain level of money and prestige.

Call me cynical, but I suspect that even then romantic short-sightedness will remain.

^Aye, for a fair chance at UNSW medicine you probably want, at a rough approximation, something like ATAR 99.3+, UMAT 62+ and a decent interview.

While this makes sense it is probably more useful to the cynics than the hopeless romantics.

I agree :). I too think that we place to much emphasis on biology (of course, choice on the part of the parent may still enter as an issue - for example, suppose a woman agrees to carry the child because a man is willing to raise on support the child, only for the man to later decide that he...

Howdy Mirakon. To study BA/MBBS (or BA(hons)/MBBS) at UNSW you simply need to make it into the MBBS program and, later, to notify the faculty of your interest in the combined BA program. Despite what some people tell you, in practice you want 99+ for entry into UNSW medicine. The median...

But if welfare is the primary alternative at present, and if welfare depends on taxes which are enforced through similar coercion, then mightn't child support still present as a reasonable policy? In other words, what leads you to preference welfare over child support given that both involve the...

On the second article - to say that it is an historical rather than a psychological question begs the question in favour of christianity. When people offer an empirically justified psychological explanaiton for a certain form of belief then the argument runs that other complex historical or...

I'm not a big fan of metaphysical uses of Ockham's razor such as your above statement that it "dictates that no god exists". I personally think that Ockham's razor is best interpreted as an epistemological principle relating to belief and knowledge. In other words, Ockham's razor dictates that...

Defs the startled gecko.

I expect the dividing line to be a fuzzy one. Some paradigm cases would be selling organs or body parts (kidney, cornea, liver, intestine, face, etc...), sex slavery, murder park (or otherwise consenting to grievous harm/torture). Of course, some people would engage in such activities even in...

It's not quite an appeal to tradition as I understand the term. That would be to use a conservative argument that we should retain states because that is what we have done in the past. This argument is based on a historical tendency towards conflict as well as a scientifically observed tendency...

I feel that to say that a person simply will find a sympathetic or open-armed property owner sidesteps the issue of overpopulation and limited resources. I am still interested to know what approach you advocate when land and resources become tight. In particular does the well-fed property owner...

Straw man.

The tendency to protect kin, and offspring in particular, is not a mere by-product of evolutionary processes, but to some extent it is the main outcome. Evolution does not aim at the survival of individual organisms so much as the perpetuation of a genetic code. A code which is not perpetually...

I want to raise a related issue. Even in the case of private property arising through the liberal mechanism of mixing labour with natural land and resources a similar problem is generated. In the case of overpopulation, say on a small island, it is still possible for the movement of individuals...

(1) The non-existence of god can only be self-evident if it is simply a matter of armchair metaphysics. However, I would be inclined to treat it, at least partially, as an empirical issue, in which case the non-existence of god cannot be self-evident. (2) What do you mean by freedom - e.g...

A mate of mine, in a public health station of a clinical viva examination, was asked 'if you could introduce any public health program into Australia what would it be?'. His response? 'Fat tax' While it is an interesting idea, and makes me laugh somewhat, I am not a supporter.