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The first part is correct, but it's not so much that making use of individual freedom involves undesirable experiences, more that your average human being doesn't have the mental faculties or sense of self necessary to make anything more of it than they make of democracy or education or the...

Did you read my post? Please explain how the extreme increase in available organs due to a financial incentive being present could occur while prices remained prohibitively high?

More often than not the term freedom is adopted as a mantra by those who don't know what they mean by it, and wouldn't know why they consider it so valuable even if they did. The classical liberal roots of the term as it applies to politics have in this process been almost entirely ironed out...

I hate it every year without fail.

Thanks for the contribution Bilal

I don't think something like this is clear cut enough to simply be labelled rape and treated as such. If we do accept that this was a rape, is that really a useful term in describe the conduct that occurred? There was seemingly no malicious intent, he was inebriated and she had already...

No, luck isn't ANY basis. Wealth, is at the very least usually earned, and we use it as the basis for the allocation of typical resources- something that could simply be extended to organs. One very important point is that the availability of organs in such a system would be far greater than it...

Has anyone else been listening to this album incessantly? I don't usually post about new music I like because there aren't many regulars here into this type of thing, but this album has so much energy and anger. The first time through it was like a punch to the face and I've been hooked since...

I don't see how an organ market with some precautionary measures would necessarily result in the exploitation of anyone. It isn't as if you would be able to pawn a bag of kidneys at the local organ dealer, no questions asked. With the simple provision that the organ donor be present during the...

All anecdotes are completely worthless in academic discussion or debate. Yours takes this one step further by not being a description of a miraculous, supernatural event, but simply the DREAMS OF A DELUSIONAL DYING WOMAN. Are you really so simple that that recollection alone is enough to sustain...

Oh, I just read the rest of it. They are two conflicting studies.

That article states the complete opposite :confused:. It seems to support the claim that homeschooling is commonly a tool used by fundamentalist crazies to ensure their children don't become broadly educated enough that they start questioning their faith.

Hahaha I didn't say the two were mutually exclusive.

I think the one of the problems lies in the question of why parents want to home school their children in the first place. If they're religious, there are religious schools for every major faith. Homeschooling for religious reasons therefore often means the parents possess radically different...

I agree, the US was founded as a secular nation, as Hitchens argues very well in that video. I think that it's a very important issue to take into account when considering the recent political climate in the US. So often the Religious right will claim that their political opponents ("secular...

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So you're saying that it is a role for parents, and at the same time acknowledging that parents can't be trusted to perform that role? Well if that's the case, why shouldn't the role be appointed to a health professional who CAN be trusted to perform it properly, being adequately trained and...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA IT'S NOT EVEN 3G, let alone HSDPA. Why are people so stupid

Mediocre IMO. Weren't they supposed to be better than Optus and Voda? Still, the existing customer offers are okay. Meh, doesn't really matter to me now anyway, I left 3 for the 32gb 3GS on Optus Timeless $99 (Still easily the best offer on the market for the 32)

You're both wrong. A vegan diet can provide adequate nutrition for people of any age and either gender. Yes, some vitamins, minerals and amino acids are more plentiful in animal sources, but a plant based diet isn't necessarily lacking in anything essential for good health.