I'd be interested in finding out what people's opinions on abortions are, whether they support it or not and more importantly, what the basis of their opinions are.Go.

I never have because I'm not going to be giving my hard earned cash to the scumbags and murderers who supply it.

Nathaniel, you have an interesting style of debate, if you could call it that.I'd like to try something out here. I'm just wondering if posting this will cause you to leave the thread.A groan of tedium escapes me,Startling the fearful.Is this a test It has to be,Otherwise I can't go on.Draining pati...

THis could get very ugly or very interesting.Anyway, I just thought I'd post this brief extract from the catholic encyclopediawww.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htmI'll leave out the history, but if anyone uses the link then they can search for themselves. Its interesting for many reasons.Will viewed a...

I would have thought that some things do not need to be said. I don't like Global Capitalism. I don't think that its a fair system. But, that said, I can't really think of any alternative that I could entirely endorse. Don't get me wrong though, that doesn't mean that I believe that we shouldn't see...

Dissident, what alternative are you proposing?

The problem as I see it, is that if we were to accept that certain practices are wrong then wouldn't we be obliged to stop them? And if we admit that our beliefs have no concrete basis, then surely we have no way to reason with those who carry out the practices that we consider barbaric? Does that m...

Over 16 a year. I've read four over the last week (The first three books of George R.R. martin's A song of Ice and Fire series, which actually comes in four books ). Most would be books I'd have to read for college.

And if a cliterectomy is carried out in an environment which is safe? What if somebody wanted to sacrafice themselves to a god?Pray tell, what acts are universally wrong and why?

The following thread is to discuss Massimo Pigliucci's Rationally Speaking article entitled, On Tolerance vs. Respect.''What about tolerance? Are there ideas and customes that should not be tolerated, even by members of a liberal society? Yes, plenty. The practice, common in some societies, of opera...