How is it relevant how fat and ugly Joe really is? It wont make him a good debater.

Welcome to America.

That's what makes this place great. Usually the punishment fits the crime. Obstructing traffic can be worth making a point.

If you accept your punishment, then it may be worth your freedom.

Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut

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I'm sure there are certain things that line up with actuality. But they have to be supported by scientific evidence for me to even care.

I am bisexual. And I don't really lie, as much as I don't bring it up immediately.

It's not relevant to who I am.

Plus, only 10% of people wont make a big deal of it. 40% will bitch about it, 30% will want to talk about it, and 20% will think I'm just faking it to be "sexy."

It is, by definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Of course there are certain exceptions to the slippery slope rule. However I don't believe that the example you gave was the best...

The thing to remember is that you cannot use the slippery slope argument as a rule. It does not apply to every concept, universally. It must be proven, or it is invalid.

It's only effective if you're a quantity over quality kind of person.

It's such an unbearable act that the person being tortured will succomb almost instantaneously, and thus give any answer, fuck all if it's good intell or not.

Acting on bad intell is worse than none at all.

Waterboarding has been shown to be ineffective.

I don't believe torture, especially ineffective torture, should be aloud by a country which advocates world peace.

An 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soooo cool! I love it, thanks Joe.