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You obviously don't want to answer my question. Let me explain why I asked it. If you start valuing people based on what they do, then the concept of equality of all people is impossible. You would have to value who you think is better based on what they do and in effect that makes a garbage man "lesser" of a human being than a doctor. In principle I rather value everyone equally. If that means that a rapist/murderer is as valuable a person as a doctor or more valuable than a police dog then I'm going to have to grin and bear it. Now people, as interesting as we are, could twist that in all kinds of ways. No, I don't agree with what rapists/murderers do at all and no, I don't think the work of police dogs isn't valuable. It's a simple matter of principle that I value people more than animals. I'm curious, abyssal - do you actually agree with the PETA thing or do you think they're just nuts too? I suppose you could have responded to me because you felt you had some random point to argue, which is fine, but I'm curious what you think of the PETA thing.

I'm with you on Adam Jones. Not really for technical brilliance, but for creativity. Ill have to add Hendrix as one of my favorites and Ive always loved what Mikael Åkerfeldt can do with a guitar.

I don't have a problem with swearing at all, but I have a social conscience which tells me when it's appropriate and inappropriate. They're just words and offence taken to them is entirely dependant on social constructs, but again, I'm mindful of those and I'm not into making a scene just for the hell of it.

Mass serial killer/rapist over the life of a police dog? I like your logic. I'm sorry that you don't like that I value people over animals. Yes, I believe every human being is more valuable than an animal on a fundamental level. Whatever lines you want to draw are up to you but the principle I go by should be easy to understand. Tell me, do you value a doctor more than a garbage man?

That PETA thing is way to far. In my book, a human life is always more valuable than an animal's and such a comparison is sick and degrading to the life lost. Typical of such an ideological bunch.

Wow. Sounds incredibly similar to grown-ups playing politics.

This story just keeps getting more weird. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ll-me.html Apparantly there was some cannibalism involved as well as parts of the victim's face in the killer's pocket.

Let me be the first to say that voting based on the name of a party and not it's policies/what it has to offer is STUPID. I can't believe people even participate in such nonsensical mind-rape.

Falling to Pieces by Faith No More. Great song from a great album.

Hard to say, really. I'd probably go Nirvana by an edge. Nevermind is still one of my favourite albums of all time.

New rule: any movie which has the word "movie" in its title is by definition a piece of crap. I don't waste my time on them to be honest.

Band: Tool. Album: Aenima. Still favourite?: This is hard to answer for me. It would imply there's something about this album which sets it above the rest but I like them all. The thing with Tool is that it's not like they've just regurgitated the same thing 5 albums in a row. There's no real basis for comparison that I'm willing to make because each release is unique and appealing on it's own individual level.

The last time they played at a national convention made for a great DVD, that's for damn sure. Tickets will vanish before you know it, so get in quick if you're going.

Yes, yes it is. not really, every day someone comes up with a new way to split water, that article is just hype Talking about hype using hyperbole doesn't make for much of an argument. It is something new, a new catalyst. The idea is that it's much cheaper and allows effiecient use of excess solar energy to power the hydrolysis of water economically. It's the same old solar power but that's not the point. Now tell me, what's hype about that?

I hope for you and your friend's sake you never do the same in a university chem lab. Not unless you have a death wish or something. Seriously, I can't believe how stupid that is.

Parents should never teach kids false information to scare them into not doing things. They should grow a backbone and teach kids what they can and can't do, not what is and is not according to their false "facts". All false information serves to do is weaken parenting and raise the frustration of everyone else because they have to continually correct misinformation stamped into the heads of children everywhere.

Death - The Sound of Perseverance. That's the most recent anyway. Great album.

He may have no empathy but still, I'm sure he values freedom. How would the death penalty be any better anyway? How is a lethal injection, for example, any worse a sentence than life in prison? I also think it would be pretty hypocitical of us as a society to punish a murderer by killing them.

Not quite true - vegetarians can get protein from legumes and fulfill essential amino acid requirements from legumes and other veggie foods. They don't need protein shakes if they know what foods to eat. http://www.clima.uwa.edu.au/schools/legumes http://www.med.umich.edu/umim/clinical/ ... egumes.htm

A Moment of Clarity by Death. Good god. What an outro.

Hmm. Not working for some reason. Anyway, people are smart enough. I'm sure they can use their imagination and get the point.

What does it matter whether we were "meant to" eat meat or not. We weren't actually "meant to" dig iron oxide out of the ground, mix it in a smelter with carbon and do this with it: But we did, because we could. What is the point people are making by saying we weren't meant to eat meat? That we shouldn't? If so, I say that's nonsense.

I wouldn't call it evil, more metally deranged. I'm assuming here that his ability to feel for other people (empathy) is mentally compromised. I think there could be something to it considering the details of the case. Real evil to me would be having a sound mind and still choosing to kill someone in this way. Having said that, I'm not trying to find excuses for this guy. He should be locked up away from society because there is every chance he will do it again (especially if he has no empathy and can show no remorse).

Anyway, I heard about this yesterday. It's pretty sick. I can only imagine what the other people on the bus went through. The killer must have a screw loose or something, surely. Killing people without any emotional response just isn't human.

Another step foreward. Sounds good to me.