RationalCop

RationalCop

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Reply to Role Models in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Muggaz, The point I'm making, is the you have no real idea what his family thinks about him or his choice. You can guess, you can throw that emotive hand grenade out into the crowd if you want, but in the end, you don't know. And rationally speaking, you could probably interview different members of his family and get different answers. Until you KNOW what his family members would say, it's an irresponsible comment to toss it out there just

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Reply to Role Models in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I wonder if his family would tell you the same... What does that mean? What would his family say Muggaz? VES

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Reply to Rational vs. Emotional Thought in Politics JoeUser Forums

Self interest always seems more reasonable and more rational, but if you look at the whole picture then it can be seen differently. If I pay my workers low wages then I might have a better bottom line, today. But if I pay my workers good wages and include them in the decision making pro

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Reply to Legalize marijuana---Pay For Stuff.... in Politics JoeUser Forums

The government should regulate CONDUCT that involves one human being using force on another or causing harm to another (I know that I'm stating this in an overly general sense). The government should not regulate the consumption of anything by an individual regardless of whether he/she is harming himself / herself. Let that person deal with the moral consequences of their own activity. If that person while

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Reply to Rational vs. Emotional Thought in Politics JoeUser Forums

Interesting that you should bring this up. I'm personally in the process of re-evaluating the way I think about things. I have lacked an organized philosophical system for quite some time, only loosely having series of ideas and beliefs that made sense to me. Then the other day I ran across Objectivism. As I read through some of the basic priniciples of this philosophy, I realized that it fits rather well

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Reply to So What If He's Gay? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Of course we're all allowed opinions. But why have them and fight for them if you can't justify them? People are so dogmatic; they refuse to change their life long opinions. Why do you think so many people are against same sex marriage? No matter how much logic they hear, their opinions won't change. Pe

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Reply to So What If He's Gay? in Politics JoeUser Forums

In addition, (just to go a little more in-depth than I was originally planning to) why do you get to pick and choose which Laws of Purity we should all have to follow? Why should the government make it illegal for homosexuals to marry but have no laws about things like touching the skin of dead pigs (football would be illegal) or

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Reply to So What If He's Gay? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Getting back to the Inventor of the Internet section of this article, it would appear Jeb and Maxwell share some accuracy. As I understand it, a guy named Licklider (American) was largely responsible for the development of the precursor hardware infrastructure (ARPANET) while Tim Berners-Lee (British) was responsible for developing the software (HTTP) whi

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Innocent man charged living expenses for time served in prison in UK in Politics JoeUser Forums

This is a scary must read.... http://www.sundayherald.com/40592 One quote from it..... "Blunkett’s fight has been described as “outrageous”, “morally repugnant” and the “sickest of sick jokes”, but his spokesmen in the Home Office say it’s a completely “reasonable course of action” as the innocent men and women would have spent the money anyway on food and lodgings if they weren’t in prison. The government deems the claw-back

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Reply to Free Beta?? in Political Machine JoeUser Forums

Personally, as a Drengin.net subscriber, I'd be rather upset to have paid for my account only here that Stardock started giving their games away. As was mentioned, the account gets you alot more than just the PM beta. VES

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Reply to Police Brutality Explosion in Dixie in Politics JoeUser Forums

Your estimation (read opinion) is duly noted without agreement. I could have said the same of you, but why bother. An exchange on an internet blog hardly represents an in-depth analysis of a person or set of circumstances. My experiences differ from yours, and I see many false accusations and exaggerated claims people make against police officers fairly frequently, and with the benefit of FIRST HAND knowledge many times. To be honest, it wo

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Reply to Police Brutality Explosion in Dixie in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm not sure I see the world any different than you, but that's not the issue. And the paper didn't say Kareem came out guns ablazing, it just said he pulled out a gun, nothing to do with firing it. How did you interpolate "guns ablazing" from that? What I see however, is you have an expectation that I (or we) should accept your version as being more credible. I have been involved in many situations where the suspect, family and friends had it in t

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Reply to Police Brutality Explosion in Dixie in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's interesting, but this article doesn't seem to list some information that the Augusta Chronicle includes. Are you sure you are reporting all the facts? Trooper shoots man who ran checkpoint A Georgia State Patrol trooper shot a man who authorities said ran through a police checkpoint early Saturday. Trooper David Holloway, of the Swainsboro post, shot Kareem Edward Bynum,

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Reply to Why we fight in Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

For all the people that seem to claim that we should have been able to prevent 9/11 with our "advanced knowlegde", think about the bombings in Spain. The Spanish police and intelligence community have known for years that train bombings were possible. You know why? Because train bombings had already either been averted or had happened. Yet with all the advanced knowledge and experience, they could not stop the tragedy that happened recently becaus

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Reply to Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

So your short answer Jeb is yes, you support her exclusive choice. And really all the dire situations you previously mentioned really don't matter. It could be a whimsical decision and it wouldn't make a difference to you. There is no further agreement we can reach on this matter. VES

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Reply to Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Okay, one simple scenario as I again attempt to take the blue pill. This is for you Jeb. You pose all the problematic issues on why women should have "the choice". Most of them sound like the dire straits. So I will pose some circumstances to you to get your take on whether this woman should have "the choice". If you answer it as I suspect, then I can with reasonable certainty suggest we will find no further common ground on the issue.

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Reply to Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Geez, forums are like the Matrix. I can never seem to take the red pill. Or was it the blue one? I think it should also be noted, semantically speaking, that there is nothing inherent in the definition of "consequence" which is negative. There is an implied negativity, but consequence in it's defined form basically means 'logical result

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Reply to Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Aside from you proposition that two wrongs make a right ( the man can run away, so that makes abortions okay), you assuming uplanned means unprepared or unable which is not necessarily so. The vast majority are merely UNWANTED. If the women is unprepared or unable to handle the "consequence" of having a child, she should not bring about the conditions under which children are made. My objection is, always has been, and likely always will be that abo

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Reply to Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I repeat, a ridiculous assumption. Nothing need be perfect to not be a consequence. Consequence needn't be viewed in the most narrow light of the nine months of carrying the child. The impact a child has on one's life (the consequence or the blessing) goes much longer and greater than that. There is nothing about my son or his being brought into this world that is or was a consequence. And yes, my wife agrees with me. Rather, if I had rel

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