off course gay marriage is a significant issue. The very nature of politics is wrapped up in religion, and gay marriage is something that goes against the beliefs of some religions.

Agreed, its difficult to relate and care about the characters from The Walking Dead because they are too caught up surviving in their awesome post-apocalyptic world.

There are two parts to the brain, the conscious ( the physical part of the brain) and the unconscious (the part we have nearly no knowledge of ).

A human life begins when the fetus gains consciousness......

It's not so much denial as one fundamental idea- that we are people when we are able to reach consciousness. Before that we are just a clump of cells that can feel nothing and has no emotions.

I agree, but the presidency shouldn't be based on race, it should be based on who can more successfully run the country.

7 BILLION PEOPLE LAST YEAR. Wouldn't our resources be stretched pretty thin in the next century?

and... their body, their choice.

Yeah, but how on earth can there not be divorce? I wouldn't want to still be married to a man that I despise.

Of course there is life on other planets, there are so many planets that the Kepler telescope discovered to be in the goldilocks zone, that and the drake formula and you are bound to have some form of advanced life out there.

In the Catholic faith, "marriage is between a man and a woman" and also marriage is for people that can procreate.

Legalizing Marijuana would increase the nations GDP, even more so if the government were to put a "sin tax" on it like tobacco.

in todays capitalistic society, even though we might fool ourselves into thinking that everyone is equal. no ones worth is that same as the next.

example:

really important person is sued by unimportant person. the really important person gets phenomenal representation while the unimportant person gets adequate representation in court, meaning that those resources will be allocated unequally. in a capitalistic society, self worth seems to be what matters most, especially in the countries that are service oriented like the states.

furthermore, this can even be argued when talking about abortion and stem cell therapy. why waste legislation protecting those who aren't even active partakers in the community while there are those that have been contributors to the community but are unable to receive hope that they will overcome their illness.

There's this annoying little thing called "peer pressure".

first off, if I go to med school and graduate and become a doctor, I wouldn't want to pay the EXACT same amount of money as a teacher or taxi driver.

uhhhh... NO ENERGY... how am I supposed to make coffee in the morning.

Religion is just something that the lower classes kept because in a state of financial turmoil, the lower classes relied on their "faith" to keep any semblance of hope.

There is no worse punishment then living with the consequences of the crimes that you have committed, and giving a terrorist the death penalty is only giving him what he wanted in the first place. They should have to live with themselves for the remainder of their lives, besides there is no honor in suicide- that's just cowardice.

I don't see why the US government should have let his family bury him. There is no honor in being a terrorist and ensuing fear in innocent people, especially after the 9-11 incident.

let's not forget genocide, (say... around world war 2?) .

no, its addictive, do you know how much revenue is generated from the sin tax alone?

-btw I don't smoke.

Agreed. The idea that there are tariffs on how much pollution a company can produce before being fined a certain amount is ridiculous. What's worse, is that companies who are good at decreasing the amount of pollution their company emits can take their tradable permits and sell them to another company who isn't so good at decreasing the quantity of pollutants in both the air and the water.

honestly, we're not getting very far on the whole sustainability thing.

Yes, when one insane group of people blow up another group of people and ensue fear in the native population and the people that have ties to that country---that is terrorism.

"Should mass media speak about terrorism?" - has anyone turned on the news lately? (granted the public is never told the whole truth, just the bits and pieces that do the best job of enraging the public).

So, yeah we should be told the whole truth.

it's as if someone blows up your house and you're told that you had a faulty smoke detector.

You defined terrorism as tactics that ensue fear within the native population, and we've done it before. Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be considered a terrorist act. Through the utilization of atomic bombs we were able to ensue fear to the living Japanese, countless were killed, and the aftereffects were felt by the nearby and native populations for a long time afterwards. Not to mention that that is how we got the Japanese to surrender ( we lied and said that there were more bombs and we were ready to use them if they didn't surrender). In that case that WAS warfare.

A more recent example are the drones that drop bombs were ever insurgents are presumed to be. This too ensures fear in the native population, therefore that is terrorism? (by your definition anyway).

911, was an act of terrorism that led to the war. Surely the Iraqis knew that after that the Americans were most defiantly going to war. If not, they must not have read about pearl harbor.