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A direct attack against citizenry responded to by an attack against military/governmental structures? Also, unlike Iraq both the initial invasion and the current occupation does have the support of the populace (afaik from surveys and such)...

Oh but they also needed to invade to hunt down Bin Laden, so time was pressing. Or should they have not gone after him? Idk I think it's legitimate for a nation to attack another who is actively supporting someone who launched a successful attack on their citizens, it's war?

I think we should ban fat icons from TV if we're going to ban skinny ones from magazines.

Has he banned violent video games yet?

Well, in a perfect scenario for such an argument... say with Afghanistan. Great injustice was done there, the people were suffering and they are suffering more as we try to correct such injustice. The hope would be that we could (though we probably won't given the present situation) set the...

So what you're saying then is, if a militia took control of Tasmania and committed rapes/murders on 1% of the population, but threatened more suffering to another 5% if we intervened, we should not intervene? I can see that as a worthy argument, but I don't think it's black and white. I can see...

I agree that it does, but I disagree that it should. Is human life worth less the further away from you it gets? Obviously not, even though we're just human and perhaps can't help but intuitively feel such a way (see Peter Singer's 'The Expanding Circle'). I would say that barring another...

Who gets hurt and how? There are actually potential benefits tbh Consider that someone who cares tonnes about their religion is more likely to abide by a ruling which has the backing of god than even fear for the state, where the state may fail to detect their crime. Look at OUR system's...

I thought you were all free market WOOO... Who cares if it's unnecessary? It's something they want to do and no one gets hurt.

Well... it's not for religious arbitration. It's "arbitration" and it runs within the limits of the secular laws of the land, no matter how you want to dress it up.

Well for starters, I'd rather focus on Afghanistan as I find it a much better case than the war in Iraq which I openly say was wrong. Now what sort of a principle are you trying to set up here? - Should we only care about injustice that occurs close to home? - Should we only act where we fear...

But this isn't sharia law any more than if I set up a tribunal in Australia for 'BOS law', got some chick to accept that the tribunal will be binding and then ruled that she was my property which I could use as I please... The police will not go get my property if she runs away from me and they...

It's not like sexually discriminate results can be held by these arbitration courts... If one of them (for example) rules that a girl is a slave to the man or whatever, then that will not be binding as such courts must work within British law. If such a decision was enforced/accepted by the...

I think I disagree. But either way, I believe he was bringing Afghanistan into it?

Ben just to begin working through this: - Say a separatist government takes over Tasmania using military force. - While the majority are somewhat comfortable with it, this government oppresses segments of the local population and commits regular brutal atrocities, such as randomly kidnapping...

If everyone starts saving their money and stops investing it our economy grinds to a very scary halt.

I hate really close greetings tbh. Hugs or kisses are pretty stupid...

I've never kissed sober... well like once or twice.

Oh I agree... I personally view rationality as flowing from your choice of epistemology. The reason why I find it irrational to take the 'small leap of faith' in favour of God is that there's no reason to also take such a small leap in favour of any of the other things which exist outside of our...

Why should there be any god at all? I have no idea... maybe asking 'why' is pointless?