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I don't get it, between the "opposed" label, the "no, it's very fun" tag, and then fact that I was shooting down the other side, you have to ask if I have an opinion in the debate?

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And what exactly is immoral about pleasure?

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How? There is nothing in science that either proves or disproves God. In fact, if someone would like to explain how this experiment could even be set up, I would like to hear about it.

Sure, science can and has contradicted specific mythos of certain religions. Many followers have come to the understanding that the point of mythology is not litteral truth, but rather figurative truth.

If anything, science ultimately encourages new forms of spirituality. For example, check out how followers of the Law of Attraction validate their beliefs with quantum physics.

2 points

Indisuputable proof: A year ago, I would have said "no."

1 point

C'mon, this one is not even close. The Republicans represent a single group: white men. Democrats, on the other hand, represent everyone else (including a number of white men such as my self.)

Take a look at a Republican rally and then take a look at a Democratic rally and you will see an obvious difference. America, no matter how badly Republicans wish it so, is not a country of a single race that all thinks the same thing about every issue.

A cross section of a democratic rally is much more similar to the country as a whole. There, you will see races of all kinds, both genders, gays and straights, religious people and atheists.

3 points

Football is more physically challenging, because the competition level is much, much higher. Let the nations top athletes play polo and let an exclusive number of people play football, and this would be reversed.

If Polo is more challeging, do polo players live the rest of their lives in chronic pain like ex-NFL players do?

Personally, I'd rather swim for an hour than be hit 30 times by a 300-pound man on steroids. But maybe that is just me.

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A blind man who examines the front of an elephant will have a much different understanding than a blind man examining the elephant's rear. The two blind men's descriptions would even seem contradictory. . .

The atheist often seeks to understand his world by understanding its smallest parts and putting the pieces together, i.e. a bottom-up approach. "God", on the other hand, is quite simply the top-down approach of understanding the universe. God and nature are synomous; the only difference is which end of the elephant that blind humanity desires to study.

3 points

I have complaints about the American government; we all do. But at the end of the day, no style of government has brought about more freedom than a Constitutional Democracy. No style of government has brought about more equality and social justice than a Constitutional Democracy. No style of government has brought more freedom and liberty than a Constitutional Democracy.

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I don't get it, Joe. The USS Cole was worse than 9/11?

4 points

That copy and pasted speech was horrible. You want to blame environmentalist for high gas prices and paint the entire scientific world in some giant conspiracy?

Gas prices are high because the Iraq War ended the lucrative oil-for-food program, disrupted production lines, and created uncertainty in the World's cheif oil producing region. Global warming activists seek to reduce the demand for oil, which logically would REDUCE oil prices, not raise them.

To argue that global warming gets unfairly positive coverage by the media is an absolute laugh riot. Out of the thousands of questions asked by the media in our current presidential race, something like eight of them have been about global warming. This despite being a major issue of concern for hundreds of millions of Americans.

Look, even oil companies are finally admitting that global warming is a legitimate concern. Even the Bush White House has reluctantly admitted it.

You will find what small number of places where drilling has not been allowed in the US are for environmental concerns other than Global Warming. But let's not let the truth get in the way of a good argument.

Carbon dioxide is only .036% of the atmosphere (making it the fifth most abundant gas.) There is absolutely no logic behind the argument that says a gas that is 36 parts per million cannot have an effect on things.

3 points

That's a little unfair, because under a good President 9/11 doesn't happen. Still, to answer your question, I would have put all my resources into finding, arresting, and trying Bin Laden.

5 points

The Iraq war is the WORST mistake the USA has ever made. Our national deficit is the WORST it has ever been. Our income discrepency is the WORST in the western world. The terrorist attack that occurred during his watch was the WORST in American history. Many of the branches of the Executive under his control such as FEMA, the EPA, and the FDA are all at their most inefficient and WORST points. Our reputation across the globe is its WORST ever.

Not only is Bush the WORST president ever, it is very difficult to name even one aspect of being president that he has done better than any other president. Except maybe tap dancing.

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Check out videos of David Stern and the 1985 lottery - - Stern takes a nervous breath, rummages through several envelopes, picks the one with a bent corner, and ta-dah, Patrick Ewing goes to New York instead of Atlanta or Sacramento.

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I highly, highly recommend Hendrix's BBC recordings if you can find them. Plus, I am very pleased that Syd Barrett's name got a least mentioned somewhere in this debate.

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I know this will not be the winner, but my vote goes to Keith Richards. Sure, there are probably a thousand guitarists that can play faster or more complicated stuff; but in the end, isn't it about who sounds the best?

While tons of other guitarists have come and gone, Richards keeps laying down fat riff after fat riff. Look at "Satisfaction" from the 60's, "Gimme Shelter" from the 70's, "Start Me Up" from the 80's, and "Saint of Me" from the 90's. And he's still going strong today. . .

Sure, it takes a lot of skill to play fast. But a rarer, and more important skill, is the ability to play something simple and make it sound awesome. Nobody can take a simple riff and make it sound better than Richards.

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I need a couple of white skinned, blonde haired young men wearing ties to knock on my door, and explain to me how Jesus hung out with the Indians and doesn't want me to drink coffee.

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Say I decide to kill my neighbor, so I buy a gun. I then hide in the bushes, aim my gun at him, and pull the trigger. But it turns out the gun does not work. I have at that point committed the crime of attempted murder, but no harm has occurred.

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Yes, I am aware of the primary vs. secondary dichotomy, and there are some legitimate concerns about seatbelt laws as primary offenses. Designating seatbelt laws as secondary offenses might be better policy. . .but even as a primary offense, it takes very, very, little to avoid the extra police scrutiny.

I disagree with your assessment of what is a crime. Intent, or any type of mens rea, is not necessarily an element of every crime; regardless, a person's seatbelt use is an intentional decision in all but the most bizarre of circumstances.

I must confess, the concept that a crime requires "harm, injury, or loss" is a strange to me. Are you saying attempted murder isn't a crime?

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The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Radiohead. . .these are all awesome bands. But no one has a larger catalog of top-rate songs than the Rolling Stones. The sound of the Stones damn near defines rock. There is a reason they are called The Greatest Rock Band in the World - - because they are.

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Yeah, but can he make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs?

2 points

Phillip K. Dick wrote stories that expanded the idea of human imagination in a manner no one before or after has been able to duplicate.

7 points

Face it, the real reason pot is illegal is so 1) cops have increased ability to harass minorities and lower class people, and 2) profits from alcohol and pharmacy are artifically protected. These reasons do not justify the loss of freedom of millions of Americans.

1 out of 3 Americans have tried marijuana (and that's just those who will admit it.) Should we really imprison a third of the country?

2 points

People on the other side of this argument want healthcare to be affordable, ironically, only to those who don't need healthcare. That is not what I consider to be a very good solution.

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Can humanity agree on a single definition of 'evil'?

No.

Seeing as how I am part of humanity, this has been the easiest debate ever. Case closed.


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