Barihawk

It sounds wierd, but you have to have read the book series. Very controversial to some, but not at all to some groups. Heck, even Billy Graham doesn't mind it. Jack Thompson hates it though, shouldn't people be happy? But to the OP: Just buy a game, you know what you like. Save some of the money. Never buy more than one game at a time, then wait until you beat it before buying another. Save your money.

?! It was an awsome movie, IMO :P No it isn't, it's pretentious and overrated. It would have been a great film if the directors hadn't turned it into obvious political commentary. Let us not forget Guy Fawkes. A man who would stood up to an oppressive government and paid the price. His spirit has influenced revolutionaries around the world.

Your fingernails have stem cells. The trouble is, umbilical cords are 9 months old when you have access to them. Scientists need the cells to be less than a few weeks old. The thing is, the majority does not agree. It's about 48/52 in national polls, leaning towards against research. Why would they keep fertilized embryos in fertilization clinics? Those fertilized eggs are made to order. Unless you are referring to sperm in donor clinics, in which case it's just a bit of protein with DNA in it. Same goes for the eggs there. They have not been fertilized, and therefore life has not begun.

Pod, what about miscarriages due to diabetes, cancer, and other diseases/conditions which are genetic? What if the mother comes down with a major virus that nearly kills her, and kill the child? I really doubt any miscarriages are "intentionally" done as opposed to abortion, which is only done to get rid of the child. Let's also not forget the emotions of the mother. In an abortion, the "mother" sometimes fosters feelings of remorse towards her actions, but generally "gets over it". Mothers who suffer miscarriages are generally scarred for life. The same goes for mis-births. I almost died when I was born, due to my mother's diabetes. If the doctors had not been ready, I wouldn't be typing this. They were ready because 1 year before my brother died after 1 day, due to birth complications. My mother never really recovered from the loss. I recently was given a box of some of her most cherished belongings. Among them was a baby book, "Mama's little brag book", designed to show off pictures of the newborn baby. Instead of having an infant in a crib where it should be, my brother was shown in a small coffin. I can only imagine how much it hurt her. So please, never compare those two again. They are nowhere near alike, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

What if that child became the next Rembrandt, David, Mother Theresa, Diana, Gallileo, Einstein? Or he/she could be the next Hitler, Stalin, or other threat. Causality is futile, for this reason. You simply do not know what the child will become. Therefore, you can not pass judgement on them for crimes they have not committed. Nor can you praise them for glorious deeds that have yet to be done.

It hasn't been used in 40 years, and with the state of modern warfare will likely never be used again. I am sure that Apinagez was referring to Iraq with his comment, since he compared it to fundamentalists...All 4 wars this century that had a draft were started by Democrats anyways. It's not effective at all, considering you are working with completely different gene pairs and genetic coding. You can cure diabetes in field mice all you want, but without humans, you can not cure humans. Besides, nothing can ever be accomplished without someone disagreeing. It's human nature to have a free will, and God preserve that nature. I would be terrified of a world where everyone agreed with everyone else. That leads to fascism. The world always needs a little discontent to save freedom.

Hitler said that by killing all the Jews, Germany would be saving a generation of Germans. And your first sentence is moot to me, since I believe that life begins at conception. The cells will become a human, and they are alive. They contain the genetic code of that human. They are human, by nature.

I suppose both the means of the war and of the stem cell researching would be too painful to accept, from your point of view. So wouldn't both be unacceptable? The thing is, we can eventually develop ways of fighting wars that will completely eliminate the problem of innocent death, through enough determination. Stem cell research, on the other hand, requires embryos and fetuses, and that is not going to change (unless they can find a new way of research). The only ethical way to obtain stem cells, in my opinion, is from miscarriages...unfortunately, they are rare in the US and UK. Just as diplomats find a way to end war without death, I would love for scientists to find another way to research cures without the need for embryos and fetuses. And VOV, at the time of the Stem Cell ban, research was being done from fetuses...mostly aborted ones.

I may support wars for just causes, but I do not laud the deaths of innocents. Luckily, modern technology allows us to be more picky about who we kill. Unfortunately, mistakes in that technology lead to civilian losses. In addition, our fight in the Middle East has seen the death of many civilians not due to American attacks, but attacks by insurgents and Al-Queda bombers who simply do not care who they kill. Likewise, I support the search for a cure for Diabetes (my mother died from it, and I will probably have it), but what about the innocent bystanders without a say in their deaths? In war, it is the civilians who have no choice in their death. In this matter, it is the unborn (and don't give me that "life begins at birth" bullhockey, it's not like the Ob/Gyn breathes life into the child when it exits the womb by smacking it's butt.) who are casualities...of what, pray tell? Their parents not caring enough about them to let them live? The child has no say in their death before "life". The scenarios are practically equal. The fight for good, with casualties of the innocent. I don't want to see the innocent die in war just as I don't want to see a small life snuffed out. Hence lies the problem. There is no way to answer your question. Both arguments contradict one another...just one of those philosophical things to ponder for hundreds of years. The end justifies the means, but the means sometimes are just too painful to accept.

Soldiers choose to fight, fetuses do not choose to be a part of medical research.

What on Earth are you talking about? Animals are animals...they only have rights in regards to cruelty. Humans are given a completely different and more important set of rights. Plants are non-sentient, they have no rights, but still have some protections. You are mixing up fundamentalists with environmentalists or something...

The ban on stem-cells is because of the way that embryos are obtained. Most are obtained by use of aborted fetuses, and the abortion practice used to obtain the fetuses is banned in almost every state (abortion past the first trimester, that is). It is in the constitution, article 10. This article gives states any powers not gauranteed in the Constitution to the federal government. State laws so heavily debated like abortion are left to referendum, which is a vote of the people. Therefore, the people make the laws in said cases. The problem is at the heart of the Constitution Tigra. The debate is when life starts...while a human may not be breathing and thinking at conception, it's cells certainly are...If they are alive, then the Constitution applies rights to them, and aborting them would be murder. If not, who cares? Unfortunately, it's not that simple of a debate.

Missed this one. Tigra... Breakfast eggs are unfertilized. See, when hens lay eggs at egg farms, it's pretty much the chicken version of menstruation in human females...although much more natural. The unfertilized eggs still form regardless if they are inseminated or not, and must leave the body. Hens lay eggs on pretty a regular basis. If you are breeding chickens, those eggs (which are inseminated by roosters) are cared for either by the mother herself, or in incubation chambers, and the young are sold for either food or to lay eggs for either purpose. Not everything in life works like it does in cartoons.

I'm curious how you can ethically come about an embyro. :P They're all from abortions and the like, so. Miscarriages, if the mother allows.

Toss up between Boston Creme Pie and Oreo cheesecake.

I am really getting sick of the generic blanket "one-size-fits-all" statements about "fundamentalists." I don't even know what the heck you guys are describing about that word. I am a Christian Fundamentalist, however I could care less about vaccines for animal testing. After all, those vaccines save millions of lives. If some good can come from Stem Cell, then whatever. As long as the embryos are obtained in an ethical way, I am fine with it.

I don't particularly like it, but I can live with it saving lives. Maybe I will change my mind if they find a cure for diabetes or something. However, scientists have real problems when it comes to taking things too far. I agree with Insane, and really do not want to see this turn into metagenetics where we can design genious supermen. Think Khan Singh :P. And Blue...believing in something just because it ticks off your "enemies" is not always the best plan.

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Best program out there, and has been in production for 20 years now. I used it until high school.

I am not talking about a few radical good ideas that bode well for society. I am referring to social liberalism, which is rapidly degressing us to a point where sexual deviance is once again celebrated and respect for others is lost. We are not making progress through the "liberality" that America seems to crave these days. I am not opposed to visionaries, just the idiots who make up their own definitions of what society should be. And I did study biology and biogenetics to a degree. I may not ethically support cloning, but regard it as a breakthrough in science. I know how the world works and what makes things tick. I was trying to say that not all conervative Christians make signs of the cross whenever science is mentioned.

I was comparing the futility, thank you. I am bad with metaphors.

I believe in science, I just don't believe in a theory that says I used to be a monkey. Of course, I don't debate creationism vs evolution on the internet, since it's like trying to explain metaphysics to a dog. Futile and you are likely to get bit. Of course, I really doubt you to get past the wrong concept that every conservative disbelieves in science at all in the face of God.

I wouldn't say conservative advances slow development, but it does feel like we are retracing our steps sometimes. When you are at the edge of the cliff, sometimes it is better to take a few steps back.

Because while a little governmental liberalism is good, but the social liberalism we have seen is too much. Yes, things change, but they have never changed as fast as we have seen within the past 10 years. I saw 7 year olds saying words that I didn't know existed until I was 18...words of a bad kind. We all but flat out tell our kids in the 6th grade that it's ok to have sex if you use protection...but oh wait, if you do get pregnant it's ok because you can get an abortion! I mean, way to teach responsibility and respect for life right there. And Dusqi...that is extremely unlikely to happen. Religious groups only have minimal power to grasp on to avoid being destroyed by society. And seeing how easily the teaching of creationism has been shot down recently, I doubt it will take root soon. If we had a complete liberal reform at the rate things are going, within a year people will be having sex in the streets, then watch "The Ron Jeremy" hour on ABC Family channel. And yes, I am being sarcastic.

Thanks for saying what I wanted to say, but couldn't ;P.

I think it needs to come in waves...and we are VERY due for a conservative reform. A little liberalism is good, but it's gotten way out of hand in the past 10 years. We've had almost 100 years of controversy in 10 short years...people are lazy, soccer moms that drove Chrystler minivans a decade ago are now forcing me off the road in Hummers, our obesity has trippled in 20 years because of the liberalist "happy-go-lucky" attitude, Christians and Jews are all but persecuted in the hands of "religious equality" from groups like the ACLU... We need to take a step back and breath for a decade or so...geez...give society abroad a chance to recover.