What kind of idiot (rickyarbino) would argue that atheism is a religion. I don't even give it a name. In exactly the same way that I don't give a name to not believing that herds of unicorns escape from people's assholes when they go to sleep every night. In the scope of this thread, theism's belie...

Okay I'm getting confused now, as the conversation has been interrupted and I must write with the quickness, but the police can kill white and hispanic suspects without consequence, there will be no nation-wide 24 hour media blitz as there is when a black suspect is shot. That is the bottom line. A...

International is only given as a measure of the absurdity of the reach of these farcical stories. It is not that white people are subject to discrimination at the hands of police, it is that their deaths are ignored by the MSM because of their race, it is discrimination at the hands of the MSM You ...

Isn't the international media in the first place involved because of the protests, the massive militaristic police presence, the rioting and the looting? Now of course the race discusssion is happening, because of all of the above. If people took to the streets in such a way, cops and protesters, o...

It is not outrageous at all. There have been many police shootings of white suspects since MB, and one nearly at the same time that was similar. The officers returned to work, all's well that ends well. Did you hear about them? Don't google, what were some of the victims' names? Did the victims par...

https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/2170-new-study-by-professor-david-s-abrams-confirms#.VHdhOFWsWlM From the University of Pennsylvania Law School New study by Prof. David Abrams and co-authors confirms racial bias in criminal sentencing. They accept racial factors are hard to isolate but find ult...

It's a fucking outrageous claim to be fair. It's also clearly wrong unless he accepts that the judicial system is unable to sanction cops killing white people.

Reverse racism does not and can not exist you moron Can some black people discriminate against white people? Sure (but it's negligible anyways). Can they be racist? No Because racism is not just "i hate _____ people". Racism is not overtly putting on a KKK hood and burning a cross. Racism...

Unfortunately milking the cow causes distress in a number of ways the cows are expected to produce more milk for longer and they have the distress of having the calves who the milk is being produced for taken from them.

Interesting take here http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2014/07/does-utilitarian-argument-for.html Don't think the ethical arguments for vegetarianism are as clear as is being suggested. If it is possible for animals raised for consumption to have good lives and we can kill them without suffering the...

I haven't but I'll check it out! I actually really enjoy reading 'secondary sources' of philosophy. Its definitely as enjoyable, if not more so, than reading original philosophical texts. Mind Value and Reality is the one http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674007130 It's sections where...

I recall a paper by an israeli student; her thesis was, I believe, that the IDF doesn't rape palestinian women in order to underline the ethnic boundaries between the two parties. it's quite fucked up: A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of ID...

never got the rape as a means for ethnic cleansing thing. i mean, you're just breeding impurities. sure you'll get a dominant population but it'll still have traces of the enemy Yeah you're right I suspect it's more a case of "corrupting" the enemies gene pool rather than "cleansing&...

Rape as an act of war is hardy exclusive to Africa. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4078677.stm Women's bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Rape and sexual abuse are not just a by-product of war but are used as a deliberate military stra...

This requires a better response but for now I'll just say I agree with a lot of that but then I reject that concept of freedom, it's a fraud.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29910497 More Facts and Logic for cloth-eared isolationists to ignore. Immigrants from the 10 countries that joined the EU in 2004 contributed more to the UK than they took out in benefits, according to a new study. They added £4.96bn more in taxes in the years to...

You mean pretend you're monitoring them to act as a deterrent? Yeah I guess, but it just deters people from using those methods, doesn't deter from the crime. Plus if you was going to commit a crime wouldn't it be pretty useful knowing what methods to avoid? Internet/phones ect. CCTV cameras may ha...

Because people will still do stuff that can be exploited. How is that a good enough reason though? That reasoning could be used to the extremes of surveillance and remove all freedom. Why not monitor everybody all the time everywhere every second of the day? The criminals will slip up at some point...

Cause its an ineffective use of resources? Why exactly would you continue it? As I said it could be the "we started monitoring, we got caught out, we can't go back now we've started so we'll just continue" but thats a bullshit argument in my opinion and its extremely authoritarian. Most p...

Well yeah but thats sorta my point.. its well documented now how the NSA spy on people yet they continue with those methods.. thats why it doesn't make sense if they're gunna cling on to the "safety" excuse. If anyone in the Soviet or US security got caught spying using a particular metho...