You wouldn't purchase a car without test driving it, would you? Marriage is the same way - you spend a lot of time and money invested in making a relationship, so there's no reason to ignore such an important part of most healthy relationships. Despite how much the puritan-like predecessors wanted to reject it, sex is an important part of most relationships. As long as you practice safe sex there is no issue with pre-marital sex.

In my understanding, the embargo was placed mainly to not only try and stop the treatment of Cubans but also because America at the time had an extreme view of a communist country existing so close to it during the Red Scare.

But now as America sees no issue with trading with China, this embargo is hypocritical in the extreme.

I'm of the opinion that a god or higher deity is almost like a psychosomatic illness - if someone believes in it enough, to that one person it is truly real. However, I do not believe that any one god is real, including the Christian one which I presume is the one brought up in this debate, as I do not invest myself in Christian texts and belief systems.

This is why people should be free to believe in whichever religion, or the lack of one if one wishes without having others enforce their beliefs on another - the best way to solve a debate is to provide incontestable evidence which goes against the nature of most religions that insist on faith and self discovered "proof".

Religion in its base form was brought forth by primitive humans to explain things that happened that they didn't understand - you have cultures religion explaining where humans came from, why the moon is in the sky, and other basic things that were incomprehensible to primitive man. More modern religions continue on this same path, including the supplement of religious stories to help explain and lead the followers to what said religion sees as correct, as determined by many many humans over many many years.

Killing is morally wrong because it's completely removing choice from someone - the thing that makes us logical, complex humans as well as simply animals. Murder is one person enforcing their power over another in a very final and unalterable way, usually without the others consent. We humans like the ability to choose, and thus we think murder is wrong.

For something to be sexist it must be an idea, rule or other such thing enforced on a sex solely because they are of said sex. This enforcement clearly falls under that definition, which is applicable whether it's a religious item or not.

No, because despite my disparity towards the China/America economical issue that would be taking far too much control over our economy. I think that instead the social and moral issues over slave-wage Chinese products should be brought further to the forefront of the American public, and hopefully at least more of them will realize what a terrible system it is currently.

Coming from the point of view of someone who isn't vegetarian but is instead strongly for animal rights, I say yes if the vegetarian is one out of moral concern as opposed to religious requirements. There is no concern for animals in lab produced meat, as no animals exist in the labs only cells that are reproduced enough to create muscle. It's a bit gruesome how the meat is produced, but unless said vegetarian considers muscle tissue something that should be protected there's no moral reason not to eat it.

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