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I guess you can speculate about the motives driving their particular lifestyle but how exactly does their lifestyle impact on yours? In a heterogeneous society some people will always be disgusted and outraged by the actions of others, but it is this type of society which will allow differences...

I think those on the margins extend the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour for the group that they belong. But the evolution of gender constructs is a battlefield. I find it odd that you're complaining about the phenomenon given that the extension of boundaries for women is always in...

What's the downside?

Re: Boycott of Olympics Of course it's biased, but its claims are supported by evidence. On the other hand Western media keeps spouting unsubstantiated claims of a government "crackdown". The actual capacity of the riot police to deal with the terrorism, protect innocent people and restore...

Re: Boycott of Olympics You mean they aren't afraid to pillage private property and murder innocent civilians. Documentary on Riets in Tibet Parts I and II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_prFMROC8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiVunJBIGoM&feature=related

Re: Boycott of Olympics http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=9GEW2tXV4Vw Video Description: An Australian tourist filmed mobs running wild Friday in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. "It's absolute mayhem on the streets," Michael Smith says, according to CNN. Most of the segments he...

The actual set of beliefs wholly depends on the apparatus which perpetuates it. The existence of a sophisticated system of indoctrination, from the Vatican to community churches, differentiates Christianity from any other arbitrary set of beliefs held by an individual. The Vatican, including its...

He did graduate from Harvard Law School, practiced and lectured law though. I reckon those alone are sufficient qualifications.

Re: Boycott of Olympics Wrong. Look up the "impact" (i.e. benefits) of occupation for tibetan minorities over the past fifty years (google wiki or whatever).

Re: Boycott of Olympics Occupied Tibet is ahead of India in all the individual economic and well-being indicators. Lol..!

Re: Boycott of Olympics You mean during the past fifty years when the Chinese government freed Tibetans from feudal theocracy and practices like slavery, introduced secular education and scientific institutions, modern government, transport infrastructure and modern society. During this...

Re: Boycott of Olympics Where is the evidence? All news reports show footages of riot police patrolling in response to the burning and pillaging of shops and to Tibetans beating Chinese people to death. There are no actual footages of riot police clashing with these terrorists, let along of...

Yeah I don't agree with that comment either. Religion is different because the religious person acts in the self interest in volunteering and undertaking community work if they truly believe that to go to heaven they need to live a certain way. The other problem with it is that even if we put...

The primary element of the terminal illness is the fact that the sufferer's life will prematurely terminate. The pain and suffering, just like the appearance of a child with DS, is the secondary element. If the child has the capacity to consent, her consent ought to be sought. I gather that...

If a person developed a terminal illness and they can undertake a treatment which won't cure the illness but alleviates some of its symptoms (i.e. pain and suffering), should she be denied that treatment? Guess I'm just speculating but it seems to me that opposition to plastic surgery in this...

Re: Education, Not Indoctrination: continued Although I've had a few law lecturers that identified themselves as conservatives I never saw it as a problem. Take your lecturers as they come.

I'm not saying that in a perfect world everyone should study Arts. I am saying that the education profession is left-leaning partly because of selection (those that choose to be teachers tend to be left leaning). I do believe that acting altruistically is generally better than acting...

If you put questions of consent to one side I think a girl with down syndrome ought to have more right to plastic surgery than say, some actress who's concerned about aging.

Not sure where you got the impression that I suggested that Arts > Science from. Of course Ghey raised the individual case of the historian versus the petroleum geologist but no-one suggested that all Arts was more important than science. As for where historians would be without their...

I'm not claiming that the externality produced by the educator is greater in every case. But the educators tend to believe that their work is not purely done for self interest. The choice made in regard to career path reflects in their ideology. In regard to the historian v petroleum geologist...