Recent content by ls

There has never been a system of exchange without government intervention, inflation results from economic growth (obviously too much can be bad, but inflation rises as the economy grows, so the dollar will necessarily be weakened if the economy is growing, and I think most people want the...

Democracy hasn't always produced perfect results but it is of course the most perfect form of politics. And you don't understand what a free market is, you should look it up and then come back and then we can discuss, but of course realize that a free market has never before existed. It is a...

I hate arbitrariness so socially I hate arbitrary social mores (not morals, they don't deserve to be called morals) codified into law, and I hate leaving people to the arbitrary whim of the "free market" (which does not exist and has never existed) and so democratically-elected governments ought...

None of those are preconditions for threads, nor should they be. Besides, people posting in them demonstrates the demand.

"About to be life" isn't a valid category with rights against elimination, you'll have to be a lot more specific.

Abortion isn't immoral regardless of the class of the one who aborts.

If you'd like to actually make a moral argument against anything I said I'll be happy to engage you, but so far you're saying nothing in the way of arguments, so it's incredibly hard to say anything to you.

You really hate sex, but sex needn't have to lead to babies, even if it leads to pregnancy. You didn't even bother to make an argument, you just spewed venom about sex and "be a man" bullshit.

Abortion is one surefire way to overcome the daunting challenge of pregnancy.

No, the sole reason for having sex isn't to "create babies and not for pleasure," pleasure is one of the myriad reasons for which people have sex. To not realize that is to be ignorant of your fellow man in such a profound way I wonder how you engage in conversation with anyone at all, it's like...

Why does it matter if it's taken seriously or not? You're conceding more ground than you ought to.

Why is sex for "mere pleasure" wrong? And why must they provide any reason other than "I'd like to"? "I'm inconvenienced" is as good a justification for abortion as any.

Well deontologically definitely not, and I also tried to argue consequentially, though I would have to say a lot more about it.

Obviously the anti-abortion position is untenable, and so I would like to introduce a more interesting debate. The famous developmental psychologist Jean Piaget studied the emergence of self-consciousness in children, and found what we call self-awareness generally develops, at, say...

I would be like the coach in Bad News Bears. Nah, just kidding, I would be like Emilio Estevez in Mighty Ducks and Mighty Ducks 2 but not Mighty Ducks 3 because he abandoned them to the dog-eat-dog world of a prep school junior varsity hockey team, and I would not abandon my team, not for anything.