Also true
Do you think they read every one of the 350,000+ Iraq logs before releasing them, welcome though many of them are. :rolleyes:
Guys why aren't you campaigning for every man wrongly accused of rape. Forget Assange. Assange is no longer a whistleblower, he is a dangerous...
That's hardly an outcome of Muslim culture. More a top down secular progressive force, that, for example has seen to it that a proportion of seats...
They were doing it all wrong then. Because the Quran is a charter for chauvinism and misogyny, -not missed by fundamentalists. Check out...
The Shahadah is pronounced on behalf of the baby as soon as it is born and it is then accepted as Muslim. Whether or not that actually happened...
No it's not, it's a prediction which he may have genuinely believed. Noone could actually know how much growth the stimulus would create and what...
True. Iraqis (apart from the Kurds) consider themselves “Arab”, although there is no ethnic basis, and it is purely a cultural/ linguistic...
We're talking about Al Qaeda terrorists. They are not "the people who LIVED there" when Iraq was being bombed and their only grievance is out of...
Yes, but would you be prepared to sacrifice your family as part of thousands of people to be killed in a terror attack -which could have been...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-503746/Mass-graves-Al-Qaeda-torture-centre-US-troops-Iraq.html...
Those are practical issues rather than moral principles and are a separate argument. I certainly would not condone torture other than...
I agree. But I am arguing for a clearly defined exeption This is where having an unbreakable principle becomes immoral; when the perceived need to...
This is easy to say if we think that torture is ineffective and only provides false intelligence, because then it is not a moral issue. But what...
So you admit it then. You meant what you said. Untenably. Any torture or killing purely in the name of a political ideological doctrine is...
As an aside, psychopaths present some evidence of seperate moral drives. They have no moral compass requiring empathy, becuase of a demonstrably...
It doesn't matter what the drives us to make our choices, -innate, learning, nauture/nurture. We are responsible for our actions. We are...
My use of it is an effect of some post-childhood nurture. An English corruption of the American language.
The nurture assumption, the blank slate, "Give me the boy and I'll give you the man" (Watson. Or was it Skinner), it's all been buried by...
No. You misread it. 3 times. You had 3 (read: three) opportunities to get it right, but failed. You seemed to claim that in the atheist camp...
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