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If you want to be unreasonable and insist that it's in your interest to break rules where there are sanctions for breaking them and that you'll always believe that you won't get caught, even though there are no guarantees for such a thing, then debating with you is pointless. You need to accept when...

Are you saying that a society couldn't decide on rational rules to govern the behavior of its members for the benefit of all if there is no God? No. But I am saying there's no reason for me to feel bound by those rules, so long as I think I can get away with something. The indifferent universe does...

Why don't you tell me the answer: why is it wrong for an Atheist to cheat? Because if society would benefit from everyone playing by the rules and a society has set up a reasonable set of rules to better serve the welfare of the society of citizens, then it is counterproductive to others for someon...

Oh, that's easy: because Aunt Mathilde is one case, not a set of data . There are often exceptions to any rule; but it never invalidates the rule. It's still not prudent to ignore the scientific data and the millions who have been afflicted with smoking-caused cancers, merely because you hope -- an...

Walker wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 12:43 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2026 11:06 pm

No need to fumigate what doesn't stink.

So being opposed to an insane man who got us into an unprovoked war "stinks," but perpetuating false stories about an election being "rigged" doesn't "stink". Why are you so stupid?

a man is okay with being raped. If a supermodel showed up on my doorstep... I'm not talking about supermodels raping people... I'm talking about big hairy apes raping men. Would men care more about the horrors of rape if that was happening to them? Personally, I think anyone who rapes should be cas...

So can you elaborate more on what you mean by saying morality is "mutable"? A) Do you mean that morality can be shaped by circumstances of our given reality? For example, if we lived in a world where women actually universally enjoyed being raped, then rape would be permissible; however, ...

Not too long ago CBS hired a new Boss, Bari Weiss, to clean up the radical, slanted news division and institute some basic journalism standards to replace the entrenched status quo of Leftest propaganda. Yesterday more heads were rolling at CBS, figuratively speaking. CBS News Chief Bari Weiss FIRE...

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:07 pm Did that idiot just fail the rape question there?

Who are you referring to, me, Mike, or both of us?

In most cases 'NO', correct? Neither are women. It's an attack against one's will. Yet it seems that in male culture there's often an attitude that it's no big deal for women to be raped, they probably did something to encourage it, and they should just 'get over it' and not make a big deal about i...

Let's say I know that smoking cigarettes will cause cancer. But I like to smoke. So instead of paying any attention to the averages or the scientific evidence, I point to my Aunt Mathilde, who smoked constantly and died at age 101. And I insist that whatever may be true for others, it's not going t...

In the case of morality, are you suggesting that, if things had been different, human beings could have evolved to have a different morality than we currently do? So, for example, had we turned out like Chimpanzees, we could have incorporated rape as an approved behavior, and it would seem "mo...

We, the chimps, and the bonobos, are all approximately the same distance apart You see, Mike, this is where the thesis from which you're working becomes severely problematic for any moral justification. Let's say I agree with you: human beings are sophisticated bonobos. Or chimps. Or neither, but a...

Two swings, two misses. Still you have not bothered to even learn the slightest thing about what you fool yourself you are arguing against. All so you can try to railroad me over something I wrote that wasn't even remotely about you. Do you believe that we humans are/have been immutable over time? ...

Don't lie to himself, follow to himself conscience, everywhere, both where there are people and where there are not. How does a person lie to themselves? And what counts as a "lie" to oneself or is an example of it? to act against one's conscience is self-deception. Try to give an example...