Skeptical

No one (including myself) is here arguing definitions. Since when does a dictionary come into play concerning morality? The only example that comes to mind is the white-washing of the term "genocide". Several people were saying how it was not a tax, and instead was a fee. This is true, but in this circumstance, the latter is essentially a replacement for the former. Without clear definitions of what something is, you can't go around debating what something isn't. I did not include morals in my final sentence, I was merely basing it off of the definitions I looked up, and that objectively, the Fire Department had no obligation to put the fire out. Arguing morals here is pointless, because people will have differing opinions. Sorry, I must have missed that, and as such mis-interpreted your post. You lost me after that though: morality is an opinion.

Haha, did they say a reason? Get your trollface on. It's just general [developmentally delayed]ed stuff like 'THESE "TEACHERS" TEACH KIDS TO ACCEPT GAYS, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY WILL BURN IN HELL' and that we're all lustful sinning teenagers that hate God and stuff. They're coming to a lot of universities and a few other schools in the area. I'm accepting any and all ideas on how to troll them without getting beat up or something. Buy a Guy Fawkes mask in case the opportunity for random irl trolling shows up. Make satirical signs, or signs that point out parts of the Bible that would be against WBC. My personal favorite is "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth the little ones against the stones" -Psalm 137:9 Also, for satirical signs: As one Tifer once said: "If God has gays, then why were there no women at the last supper?" And as I thought up, with far less creativity "JESUS LIKED IT UP THE BUTT, SO EAT YOUR BREAD (HIS MANFLESH) AND DRINK YOUR WINE (HIS "BLOOD")." Or just "JESUS LIKED IT UP THE BUTT." ^That might get you beaten up, though. On the upside, if they attayou, you effectively sent them to jail, and get to sue the crap out of them. Courts hate Westboro. As does the rest of the world.

No one (including myself) is here arguing definitions. Since when does a dictionary come into play concerning morality? The only example that comes to mind is the white-washing of the term "genocide".

They really aren't, although I know that people told me that, and I didn't listen, so perhaps my advice isn't of particular value.

Attack ads, I agree are pretty ridiculous. But since when are elections based on actual debates or the platform of the candidate? To clear it up, piracy is really a clouded issue in the U.S. - you won't end up in jail, although you could end up fined... but, only if you actually challenge it in court, since most ISP's will just bully you into paying them a fine to keep it out of court. If everyone went to court with it though, at some point they would have to stop, since it would essentially just be a DDOS attack on the courts.

^ ^ Loved Superbad... it was way better than the Hangover, which was just as unimaginative, but a lot less funny IMO. May have to do with my age though; relateability and such. I actually watched the SF movie Moon - crappy movie. Full of plot holes, not scary, not funny not clever, not interesting.... the list goes on for a while.

So this is how the COD fans are killing time until the release. :thumbup:

I don't feel like I need to have my phone on my person, but I do feel a jolt of fear at having lost it if I've been carrying it around a lot and then forgot to take it with me.

Its hard to pay something that doesn't exist: It wasn't a [bleep]ing tax, how many times are we going to say it? Fees and taxes are two completely different things. Precisely one-third of my thoughts on the subject.

It's interesting to see how other people respond to being asked about "having a life" - the vast majority of people immediately equate that with the amount of time they spend with other people.

No, I wouldn't find it fun at all.

I'm not sure if any one person could really have that much patience, motivation and focus. If they did though, it's quite possible.

I wish they would come to Canada: when people come face to face with evil, they tend to experience an effect rather similar to immunization. I can't imagine that that church actually has a positive effect on any of the causes that they support.

I believe that there is a negative correlation between fertility and age, though. Yup: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=study-shows-fertility-dec

I'm not sure if I even want to try, although I will... morality is independent of religion. Strangely enough, proper spelling, punctuation and capitalization tend to be as well. Now, your turn. And please, try to at least make the "circular reasoning works, because circular reasoning works" argument entertaining.

Black Veil - Straight Line Stitch

English, when actually visualizing words, if that's what you mean...

Privatisation is not the issue here. Yes, the fire department is a public institution, yes it's non-profit, but it's funded by taxes. And the family here did not pay said tax. I don't agree with it, but that's the way it works. If you want to get on your soapbox and preach about the evils of capitalism, go ahead. Just make sure that's the actual issue. To address your insinuation of arrogance: there was none intended, and I believe that you have fallen into the depraved position of providing a defense based not on responses to the argument of others, but of pointing out vague slights, imagined or otherwise. And yes, my arrogance at criticizing our sacred system. Did I mention capitalism, directly or otherwise? And I assume that you missed the ironic wordplay concerning the clichéd slogan of the far left worldwide. My problem rests not with capitalism, but with the idiotic desire of the far right to slowly dissemble democratic governance and public systems and toss them to the private sector, insisting that the destruction of the public serves the public. An additional point: it was not a tax. It was a tax-payer funded institution (I'm sure that these people had contributed to it's continued operation) that was charging for a public service. I wonder what happened to their budged over the past decade? I'm assuming the numbers are not available, however.

I learned that applying a formulated strategy to creativity is so misguided as to be destructive.

Teachers, in my opinion, are fond of having their students read Catcher as an example of a banned book, because there really is not much of a real departure from society's sense of normality: it's very much something that most teenagers can relate to. I've never met a teacher (or any adult, really) that actually advocates any truly dissident books: The Satanic Verses instead of The Communist Manifesto, Phillip Pullman instead of Hitchens. I felt that banned book week, was, for the most part an empty gesture.

Americans developed a much stronger stigma concerning Communism during the Cold War than Canada did. And it's pretty hard to ignore the fact that Tommy Douglas is a Canadian hero. Hopefully the US will catch on to the superiority of the system at some point. Their neighbor, and half of Europe using it successfully apparently isn't enough. On-topic, the big mistake is the idea that the fire department is a for-profit entity. It's not. It's role is to save lives and property. How goes the militant march towards privatization now? Freidmanites unite!

I thought it was a good book. While rather long and plodding it is certainly better then the drivel most other similar (contemporary) philosophers have published. Lol. To cite Ayn Rand as better than most other contemporary philosophers is insane. ! This really depends on what you count as philosophy. I've got about twenty pages left of The Stranger and it's been brilliant. Some might say that's not necessarily philosophy, if it weren't for the fact that Camus is constantly associated with absurdism. I've got a question to any who feel qualified to answer: Which is the scariest Stephen King book? I've only read The Shining and It, and of the two I thought the former was scarier and probably a better book overall, but it's also the first I read, so I may have become desensitized. I honestly never found King very scary, although I did enjoy Cell - not sure why, though. I found the Shining a bit scary, and I agree that it was better written.

Me too! No you can't. :shades:

You would the same as if you'd smother your child to put her out of her misery. Absolutely. I remember reading about a woman in one of the Nazi death camps, who was pregnant, and then managed to have the baby. They immediately drowned it, to spare it the experiments that the Nazis would perform on it. Morally justified? Yes.

I can't type a sentence, yet you replace periods with smiley faces...