If you look at the post I replied to, and the post it was a reply to, both were discussing the tyranny of the minority/majority. That would be...
Consider what it actually means if the majority opinion in many states is against marriage equality, but the overall national opinion is for it....
I wasn't speaking of anything you just wrote. I was simply showing evidence to invalidate the claim that a majority of Americans support marriage...
Many of the bans were passed by referendum - by a majority vote of citizens. If what you claim is actually true and a majority of voters are...
Well, the thread has exceeded the post limit. In order to keep the servers moving quick and keep from slowing down the page loads, I've closed...
Well, the last thread reached its limit and had to be closed, so here is the next iteration. Remember, this is a thread for political cartoons...
Same amount of jobs? I'm not sure. What has happened over the past several hundred years where people were pushing the same fear of automation...
History disagrees with you. There are always menial jobs that are just too difficult to build a machine to do or that require a human touch....
Automation is a big part of why we live so comfortably. People have feared and fought automation for centuries - just look at Karl Marx - yet...
The short answer is simply because they can't. Many of those countries are so tyrannical that any attempt to change things is a death sentence....
Recklessness would be very difficult to prove in this case. Negligence would be easier, but apparently even the necessary level of proof for a...
Premeditation is the key. Here is a clearer example: a man decides to burn down a building. He gets an accelerant, goes to the building at night...
I'm not trying to argue, but murder doesn't actually require intent. First degree murder does, but there are a couple of kinds of murder that...
Intent determines the classification of the crime, but a crime can exist without intent. If intent exists, usually the crime will be first-degree....
A college ID is not acceptable for the same reason that a Microsoft employee ID is not acceptable. Neither is a state-issued form of...
If that is true, and the rich pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than the middle class, wouldn't it mean that a flat tax would...
Are you claiming that churches are "congress"? The line from the constitution speaks directly about Congress and restricts the actions Congress...
That is a fun comparison. My town also had a hospital, plus numerous doctor's offices and quick clinics. Medical care is actually readily...
In the US, most utilities are either government run, or tightly government controlled. That one seems to be the same in every country I look...
You say one, most seem to say a family of four. Many of us say minimum wage should only support one person, no kids. How do we decide whose...
No, the parent is quite alive when he decides who to will his estate to. That decision was made by a living person, based on the value that...
Exactly how big of a family should they be able to raise?
Education for the first 12 years is completely free in the US. After that it can cost money, but the best performing people can still go to...
Italy is an interesting case. The cost of living in rural Italy is actually about the same as in the rural US. A few things are more expensive...
This is a good place to see a lot of different opinions on the subjects that you see on the news. Many of these debates have strong, logical...
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