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neo-dragon

To me, it seems like it's all about looking for ways to protect people (especially the mother) from the consequences of their own mistake.

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I know this is going to sound horrible but sometimes I think people try too hard to protect the feelings of these accidental mothers. They act like the man is the one who made a mistake and the woman is the one who's stuck paying for it. Guess what, she's just as responsible (with rape of course bei...

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You're right about that. Ignorance is bliss, after all. But from a moral standpoint I think that the father should be informed about the life he created. If he feels bad about it, well... that's too bad. The mother isn't afforded the luxury of ignorance, the father shouldn't be let off the hook eith...

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An abusive man has the right to know? A man you saw once for a one-night stand has the right to know? Be reasonable. The only time the guy doesn't have the right to at least have a say in what happens is if he raped the woman. In any other case, once you decided to sleep with him, whether you inten...

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I don't actually think that it's necessary to have both the Stilson and the Bonzo killings, and Bonzo is definitely the more important of the two. So...

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An abusive man has the right to know? A man you saw once for a one-night stand has the right to know? Be reasonable. The only time the guy doesn't have the right to at least have a say in what happens is if he raped the woman. In any other case, once you decided to sleep with him, whether you inten...

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I don't trust it. You never know the long term effects of these things for certain until they've been on the market for at least 10 years, and it's messing with the workings of a very important area. In my mind, I'm seeing headlines from 10 years in the future about the unexplained rise in sterility...

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Like others have said, it's all about context. Words only have as much power as we give them, and when we treat a word like "nigger" as being inherently evil and destructive, we are giving it way too much power. When we become afraid to use it in any context whatsoever, we are giving it wa...

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I didn't think that his fights with Stilson and Bonzo were the issue here. Aren't we just talking about what he did to the Bugger? As far as that goes, he truly didn't know that he was killing them the way that he knew and intended to harm the boys he killed. You can't use the fact that someone comm...

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I thought that education 150 years ago was all about how to run the family farm... But what I know about history can barely fill a post-it note.

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Double post:

No Spiderman vs. Batman. Marvel and DC stay separate. Boo for crossovers.

I'm sorry, but your prior insistence that Aquaman is cool disqualifies you from participating in this thread.

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It's entirely possible that Superman and Batman could fight each other while both remaining good if they both believed what they were doing was right and what the other was doing was wrong. Again, read "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller. It shows a future where Batman returns from ...

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What the hell is the point of mandatory voting? Having people vote for the sake of voting doesn't help ensure that the will of the people comes to pass. Choosing not to vote is a better expression of one's will than voting for a candidate because you had to vote for someone.

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I gotta say that Batman would probably take him down. First of all, I recall reading that it was revealed in some comic that due to his paranoid nature, Batman had extensive files on every member of the Justice League, including their weakness (well, everyone knows Superman's) and plans for how to t...

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I think we're going to have to compromise and assume that it is an undead zombie cat.

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i think it was just a prevelant belief in my commuity. i imagine that i just absorbed it the way we absorb a lot of the information around us. That kind of "learning" leads to major misconceptions though. I'm not saying that this is true for you personally, but in my experience many peopl...

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Well, as far as the current Ontario science curriculum goes, evolution is one of the units in the grade 12 bio university prep course, and I think it fits fine there. Browsing through the curriculum, I don't see the words "intelligent design" anywhere, nor did I expect to. Sure, we all kno...

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Where are you, Alea? I don't see... Ohhhh... I had to keep scrolling down for a while.

But seriously, what a cute couple!

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I assume he means a pocket knife. You know, the kind that flip open/closed. Like a Swiss Army knife, but not necessarily with all the gizmos. Or he could mean something like a box-cutter, or anything else with a retractable blade. *snort* Don't post while I'm posting. That's just rude! :evil: :wink:

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Wouldn't saying that she can't be a prosititute if she has HIV or herpes be some kind of discrimination? No more so than saying that she can't be a blood donor, or that a blind man can't be a pilot, or a one handed man can't be a surgeon. There are some circumstances or conditions that automaticall...

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Sooo... If they have a kid, he/she would be the man's child and grandchild. The kid's mother would also be his/her grandmother (by marriage), and his/her half sister. neo...that was SO uncalled for No, sleeping with your own blood relatives is uncalled for, making gross comments about those who do i...

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Just imagine if the man yells "who's your daddy?!" while they're doing it...

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It's not a matter of him not being stupid though. No matter how smart you are, you need all the pieces to put a puzzle together. Ender didn't know about the ansible. He couldn't have known that it was even possible for the "simulation" to be real. Bean deduced the existence of the ansible,...

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I'm gonna go with the one on the right... Maybe.

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I tell you, 20 cm of snow on the ground is a blast when you're a kid, but when you're an adult (and I use the term loosely when referring to myself) it just means having to shovel a ton of the stuff to get the car out of the garage (I think I hold the world record for doing this one time when I was ...

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Snow is pretty to look at... It's not so great to be out in once you're past the age when you can play in it without people looking at you funny, and you have places to get to. Every winter I can't help but wonder why global warming is considered a bad thing.

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lol. I know! Crazy, eh? And it was in the 20s on Monday. I don't understand weather.

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I don't feel this works as far as an adult being absolved of guilt because they were brainwashed and/or misled. Good examples being the manson family or suicide bombers (should one get it only half right). These adults with years, possibly decades, of life experience behind them are still guru'd in...

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I haven't read LotR. Mostly because I tried to read the Hobbit and couldn't finish -- it just bored me. Maybe I'll skip the Hobbit someday and go on to just the LotR series without it. Haven't seen the movies either because I haven't read the books. I didn't read the Hobbit until after reading LotR...

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I don't think that he's responsible at all. For one, he was 11 years old, and under the influence of the battle school administrators since he was 6. Second, he didn't even know that it was real. It's like if you were playing Halo online and then afterward someone tells you that every player that yo...

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I agree that it's not good to use wiki as a sole source for serious academic research, but I don't agree with the "treat wiki sources as garbage until proven otherwise" mentality, which some people have. Frankly I'm quite impressed with wikipedia. When I first heard about an online encyclo...

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*wince* Please don't use Wikipedia in any kind of semi-serious discussion? Wikipedia is far too inaccurate and unreliable. Hey, don't be hard on wiki. Remember there was that thread on pweb 2.0 about it being cited by CBC news? I find that more often than not it's quite accurate and fairly reliable...

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I voted for both. I hate it when people act as though they are mutually exclusive. Well, I guess if you believe in the most literal form or creationism (ie. God simply took some dirt and made Adam, a modern human being) then there's not much room for compromise. But there's a lot of evidence support...

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Your loss.

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Guilty Pleasure: Does being a fan of professional wrestling count? Irrational irritation: People who take too long to say/explain things. I'm usually concise and able to get a point across in few words. It annoys me when people go on and on, and in the end I'm thinking, "I could have said just ...

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