I hate elevator chitchat. Even if it consists only of them saying, “have a good day,” when they exit.
The good news is that I just got paid. The bad news is that I just talked myself into buying overpriced Fantastic Four toys. Therefore I’m bitching about my own foolish prodigality.
What possessed you?
Usually the zoo is full of obnoxious and intolerable folk so that shocks me.
But the animals are pleasant and you can commiserate with them.
I don’t think many people had lawns back in ancient Israel.
Jews are said to have a good sense of humor.
What? I’m right. If you wasted your time voting in Oklahoma, then you’re the real loser of the 2016 election. Your vote certainly didn’t mean anything and you probably missed a couple Seinfeld reruns.
You like Seinfeld?
I think this thread needs this about now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SraaOCwRnbA
Because it’s ah. Slightly political.
You’re welcome.
I’d like to see a band do a cover of that and perform it in a similar fashion on a late night show.
I’ll pretend that’s why I voted for neither of them and for someone vastly superior.
Who had zero chance of winning. Have a cookie.
You say that like I wouldn’t do virtually anything for a cookie. And to answer CatBus, the state went to Clinton as expected.
I don’t understand half of the posts I’ve made in the past two days.
It’s been two days?
I’ll pretend that’s why I voted for neither of them and for someone vastly superior.
I see the value of the term when used to describe reference to something totally unrelated that distracts from the topic at hand.
But sometimes the term is used to describe things that are invoked to add context or direct comparison. And when the term is (mis)used in that way, I find it just as bad.
And sometimes it’s hard to tell if a person is seeking to distract or intending to broaden the discussion.
That math joke made me look up the purpose of sigma which I’d forgotten. Reminded me why I find higher level math so annoying.
General, count me in.
Everything is a carcinogen if you live long enough.
In California they say coffee is.
Isn’t it still an illegal operation no matter who was in the Oval Office at the time? Or is it okay in this kid’s world view because both allegedly did the same thing? He’s not thinking his put downs through.
The point of “what-aboutism” is that it changes the subject. It even worked on us.
Is that the point of it? Asking for a friend.
I think skipping breakfast is smart;
Not sure if serious but I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever agree with anything you say again.
Again?
Here we go again!
I thought he was a she.
And I think she’s a changeling.
I think skipping breakfast is smart;
Not sure if serious but I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever agree with anything you say again.
I think skipping breakfast is smart; if you don’t have insurance getting medical care easily falls by the wayside; I do wish I woke up earlier than I do.
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Would I be correct in calling an unofficial Mac version of The Titans Expansion Pac for Age Of Mythology a fan transfer?
You might call it a fansfer.
Face it, it’s a conspiracy.
darthrush said:
I’ve got to say that it does sound a bit harsh to deny the opportunity of life to someone who might grow up in hard conditions. Is it better that they never lived or to give them a shot despite the chances of being miserable?One could use that sort of logic to conclude that using birth control is immoral. After all, what if your parents had used birth control? Then you wouldn’t have had a chance at life.
Good point.
I guess it really all comes back to the issue of when does a life truly begin. And to that, I do not know. Any time I define a point along the development of a human, I always feel unsure.
Right. This is why I prefer that laws on this follow scientific opinion rather than religious opinion.
And by science, doesn’t life begin at conception? That’s when the child starts growing anyway, which sounds pretty scientific to me.
“Life” begins long before conception. The unfertilized egg - heck even a red blood cell - is alive, but that doesn’t make it a person. Is it immoral to allow a blood cell to die? Is it immoral to get your hair cut because of the living hair cells that then are killed? The question isn’t whether it is “alive”, the question is at what point does a single fertilized cell become a human being.
Most religions have chosen to define that moment as the time of conception, but that is a wholly spiritual marker, since the only unique marker at that point is DNA - which is present in every cell of our body that we seem to be perfectly ok with when it dies (such as a blood cell or hair cell). In my opinion (and in the opinion of the courts), there are many other more reasonable points along the growth path that are less arbitrary, such as when the brain becomes active for the first time.
I think it’s much easier to identify a discrete human life. A human life goes through various stages of development, starting at conception. Whether that was the function of sperm+egg or parthenogenesis (could happen, I think), we can identify that discrete life’s start. We easily recognize that a person is separate from his parents, even though he is a grotesque amalgamation of their DNA. DNA is a very useful marker to identify a person. But obviously that doesn’t mean DNA is a person.
According to the logic here we would identify a human being as starting with Adam (whether a man or amoeba). It’s silly.
The question is not whether it is a human being, but whether the killing is justifiable.
how about a comatose person who’s going to wake up and be so mistreated by their family and the rest of society that they’ll never get a job and become depressed and turn to crime asap because it’s the easiest way to ‘succeed’ in life? pretty sure that’d be the situation with several unborn children.
I guess we put a pillow over their face before we have to worry about them overcoming their bad deeds and accepting Jesus.
Yeah, I think keeping a comatose person alive for years with no hope of a solution is inhumane.
I mean a comatose person who will definitely wake up. Someone who is completely unconscious but will eventually recover. According to your own words, killing that person (not ‘pulling the plug’) while they sleep is not actually murder.
If you think somebody who is knocked out is the same as a mass of cells that don’t even resemble a person are the same then you are a pure and unabashed idiot.
How? That mass of cells will resemble a person in six months. What’s the difference?
Because we aren’t talking about in six months?
By this line of thinking masturbation is murder because that sperm COULD have fertilized an egg down the line.
That comparison makes no sense. A fetus - absent a tragedy - will “resemble” a person. That is a very different kind of potentiality.
