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  1. So then you'd agree that killing a fetus is wrong if it was self-aware?
  2. And what you've consistently failed to explain is why murdering non-conscious humans is wrong if the only qualification for personhood is self-awareness.
  3. I believe tables are also more expensive to render, although most modern browsers/computers don't have much of an issue. I think for mobile phones specifically tables can sometimes be an issue (ready.mobi recommends not using them, for instance).
  4. That's actually what I was looking for lol, couldn't find it.
  5. Twitter is okay if you're selective about who you follow.
  6. Many people think for themselves just as much in real life as they do here, the only difference is that here introverts feel they can come out and be open about it. Societal norms make us by default non-confrontational and so we often avoid voicing our true feelings on a subject in order to get along with people. This picture is relevant:
  7. I don't think you need to read the book to see awful acting. I've read the first book and watched some of the first movie and still thought it was awful. I'm no hardcore twilight hater, the book was nothing special but mildly entertaining at any rate. I just watched the Godfather (the original). I was disappointed; I think it was partially because everyone hypes it up so much. In general the acting was great but I thought the plot lacked direction and was hard to understand. 5/10
  8. I watched until the interception Ponder threw in the red zone, decided it wasn't worth it, as usual I don't get it on tv here unless they're playing a really "high profile" opponent like GB (or buffalo since they're close to here). Unless I buy the sunday night ticket package which is like $30 a month so no way...
  9. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH vikings lost as usual
  10. I agree with you, but often tables can be created much more easily so it can be a fair bit of work to use CSS to achieve the same thing. I do think it should be done eventually though as CSS certainly is preferable.
  11. Pens just announced crosby plays tomorrow!
  12. Sounds a lot like a fetus.
  13. Okay, so what makes a human then?
  14. I'm sure there are some people like that. But saying there's any frequent connection is nothing more than generalization and stereotyping.
  15. Bruce Willis was a ghost the whole time... have fun with that. I actually haven't seen that movie lol.
  16. I keep selling all my soul gems. Don't have much of an inkling to train enchanting or alchemy atm...
  17. What I meant by "can survive on its own" is that it does not require the parents to live on its own. Physical independence. A two year old is (probably) not a person because it is (probably) not conscious. Consciousness is what let humans control the Earth. Consciousness is what separates us from nearly all other species. This is what makes us people rather than just apes. Then is someone in a coma no longer a person? What about someone with a developmental brain disease? Someone with alzheimers? At what point does someone become conscious? I'll leave off with a quote from Christoper Hitchens: Basically, stop while you're...not as far away as you could be from being ahead.
  18. Yeah guys please use spoilers when discussing specific story stuff like that.
  19. And we end up winning 7-1. Perfect special teams, and a great night for gus. Nice to have that after a pretty shitty past few weeks.
  20. Wow. The leafs are shitting all over the caps tonight. But there's still a period left...
  21. Yeah, I admit I didn't expect the wild to be nearly this good but I'm glad to see them doing well. Leafs are slaughtering the caps atm, but i'm not going to rejoice until the game is actually over...
  22. That was directed at nomrombom. @Alg: defining personhood is basically the core issue here. I agree it's difficult to define.
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