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henry quirk wrote:"Then you are incapable of understanding what I wrote above!"

Oh, I get it...and I disagree with it (you) for reasons already posted up-thread.

Again: you go on and do whatever it is you think you 'should': I'll continue to do as I 'choose'.

SpheresOfBalance wrote: As far as equality goes everyone is equal, PERIOD! When one speaks of equality they can only mean potential, from conception. All eggs and sperm have the exact same potential, barring something that changes them, as in some environmental condition changing the mother’s or father’s body such that their gametes were affected.

Yes, thank you for initially engaging me, telling me I was wrong, just to beg out when you see that I have a point.

thedoc wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote: As far as equality goes everyone is equal, PERIOD! When one speaks of equality they can only mean potential, from conception. All eggs and sperm have the exact same potential, barring something that changes them, as in some environmental condition changing the mother’s or father’s body such that their gametes were affected.

This is wrong, not all egg and sperm have equal potential except in a legal sense and there it is not achieved yet. the mother is considered more equal that the unborn child, otherwise there would be no abortion. There are many tribes in Africa that see another tribe as less equal than they are, hence the genocide. Muslims see Christians and Jews as slightly less equal than they are, and everyone else even less so. Legal equality has not been achieved, and physical and intellectual equality is non-existent. That everyone should be equal in a legal sense, - maybe. That everyone is equal in a legal, physical, or intellectual sense,- not even close.

Immanuel Can wrote:

Yes, thank you for initially engaging me, telling me I was wrong, just to beg out when you see that I have a point.

Actually, I was trying to be charitable.

henry quirk wrote:"Because as long as you believe that people are unequal there can never be equality in your eyes..."

First: I 'believe' nuthin'; I 'see' a lot.

Second: never even hinted I was interesting in helping others become 'equal'.
Note that I was talking to IC, not HQ. Where's that windmill?


The world is a friggin' grab bag of all kinds of folks (bright, stupid, healthy, sick, beautiful, ugly, etc.): I like it that way.
Figures!
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"Then look no further than yourself"

Good advice: 'keep your own counsel'.
Out of context! Reminder, we are debating in a philosophy forum.

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"That everyone is equal in a legal, physical, or intellectual sense,- not even close."
Who you talking to now, as I said nothing of the sort.
Yep...exactly.

henry quirk wrote:"Note that I was talking to IC, not HQ. Where's that windmill?"

Er, since when am I prohibited from piping up where and when I like?
Just saying for the record, as I shall always defend your right to respond, if you see fit!
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"...we are debating in a philosophy forum."

Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Really, this is serious stuff!
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"Who you talking to now, as I said nothing of the sort."

I was responding to Doc.

Learn to keep up.

I'm getting old Henry, my wife calls it Half-heimers! If only I still had a photographic memory?

SpheresOfBalance wrote: I'm getting old Henry, my wife calls it Half-heimers! If only I still had a photographic memory?

thedoc wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote: I'm getting old Henry, my wife calls it Half-heimers! If only I still had a photographic memory?

Just curious, do you know anyone who isn't 'getting old' or older?

Yes, it seems that many here are older people, if that's what you're saying. I think there is an age, where one tends to seek out philosophy, and that age is of those, on their down hill slide. Not exclusively, no!

As a silly aside. I once had a student who tried to tell me he had a 'Photogenic Memory'.
FMRI huh?

SpheresOfBalance wrote:

thedoc wrote:

SpheresOfBalance wrote: I'm getting old Henry, my wife calls it Half-heimers! If only I still had a photographic memory?

Just curious, do you know anyone who isn't 'getting old' or older?

Yes, it seems that many here are older people, if that's what you're saying. I think there is an age, where one tends to seek out philosophy, and that age is of those, on their down hill slide. Not exclusively, no!

thedoc wrote: No, I meant "do you know anyone who is getting younger in years as time passes?"

No, I meant "do you know anyone who is getting younger in years as time passes?"

Immanuel Can wrote:

No, I meant "do you know anyone who is getting younger in years as time passes?"

Cher.