Jeesh Chris, not to beat a dead horse about selective moral outrage, but don't forget to get equally morally outraged about the effort a little while back to make a 'liberal' translation of the Bible including erasing any references to premarital sex being bad and changing every "Heavenly Father" to...

Also; since the debate seems to have shifted to more theological problems while I was asleep, here is one for you Religious people(if there are any?) to ponder. If heaven is better than Earth(I think that is how it is defined?) than isn't killing someone righteous technically a good act since you a...

First off let me confess that I haven't read this whole thread but if this jist of it is "would I kill one person to save 100"...in all honesty, I could intellectually say "if I weight the scales, then yes: the lives saved are greater than the lives lost", but I don't know if I could bring myself to...

Gotta agree with DDL on this one.

I would love being the cleric in your group .

Or this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroup_bias

And now I have to run off, work is calling .

A good batch of radical environmentalists and naturalists (including some macrobiotics and vegans I know) think that GMO's are heinous abberations that will mess you (and humanity) up. I guess it has to do with messing with pristine nature?

On the whole, you DO tend to get more lunatics on the far-right end of the spectrum than you do on the far-left, though.

Oh, I'm pretty sure people on the right hold the inverse opinion.

I would also add that it's important to keep a good set of priorities; often people form opinions based on giving weight to various facts and perspectives and then doing their critical thinking based on that weighting. Reason and critical thinking by themselves are pretty worthless without working m...

As far as I am aware, no other crazy people in the United States, regardless of where they were located in the political spectrum, have ever had as much influence over political discussion as these people have now. :shock: . If you really believe that you'd better go down to a town hall meeting ASA...

Ugh. You know, I've noticed a very bad habit where people find the crazies on the other side of the political spectrum from them, and then develop a triple hernia inveighing against their stupidity. I've also noticed that triple hernias are usually not developed as a result of finding the crazies on...

Sherlock Holmes and Watson decide to take a break from their detective work and go camping in the countryside. After pitching their tent, extinguishing the campfire, and getting snug in their sleeping bags, Holmes turns to Watson and says. "Watson, when you look up at the stars on a night such as th...

It's okay Storm, you're not alone :-). I've just been passively reviewing this thread and my impression isn't that DDL is opposed to the notion that actions can be wrong but simply the notion of lookin at an act and saying "that's evil" and leaving it at that. And in that regard "the devil made me d...

Hey Ilovegunther,

I'm sorry man ; it's good that your mom found out soon though, there are a lot of survivors of leukemia and the sooner it's caught the better her chances are. She'll be in my prayers tonight.

-Gelo