Recent content by Factinista

Not sure where to put this so... "Telling a man to be confident is the same as telling a woman to smile." Many women report that one of the primary things they find attractive about a man is confidence. How is this not sexist in the same way as telling a woman to smile to be more attractive...

These snipers should be called what they are, Terrorists. Whether its a white guy that shoots up a Church or a black guy shooting white cops at a peaceful protest.

I wonder where all the NRA gun nuts are on this. Will no one defend this mans right to bear arms?

I would like to reiterate this point. In addition, the cop car sinking is a clear reference to Katrina, not the desire to drown cops. And the entire song is about her history and its relation to the way black people are treated in the US social climate. If you perceive that as anti-cop that's...

Also fuck Salon, they're opinion pieces have become garbage.

"Islam is a global cancer or disease, which must be killed or cut out." Yes, through conversation we should seek to wipe out these Medieval ideas, in so far as people actually believe them. When Nietzsche said "God is Dead" he was saying the Christian God is no longer a credible source of...

A well thought out post I heartily agree with, I'd like to pick into the "racist cops" thing but that's for another thread. Here I think is the crux of the discussion, and here I quote Sam Harris directly. "So “Islamophobia” must be—it really can only be—an irrational, disproportionate, and...

Thank you all for continuing this discussion, I think we've found some interesting points that demonstrate what I'm trying to get at. But first I'd like to clarify my claim. Claims of religion, specifically the case of Christianity, are based on the thought process of Faith. Claims of science...

Unfortunately what is true is not always the best Public Policy. It is true that there is no reason to believe in god and it is ridiculous to believe so. It's also true that if we don't respect their idiotic religion in the public sphere the religious cry foul and react with aggression and...

I've recently got into a discussion with a friend of mine about Christianity. Long story short... I argue that some of the claims of Christianity, like "Jesus was bodily resurrected" or "God exists" are of a different kind of reasoning than those found in Science. A claim like "evolution is a...

The prohibition analogy fails hard.. almost as much as that school for failing to provide jobs for the community. Some people are dicks, especially people who have a vested interest in something, like ideology or a profit making company. Its unfortunate but people just don't want to pay people...

Sure, being a liberal does predispose me to being more correct on moral issues :) Deference to Authority is not moral. Authority is neutral in regards to morality, are you following the orders of the Southern Slaveholders of the 1800's or the community organizers who ran the Civil Rights era...

This is the ol' Moral Foundations Theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Foundations_Theory 1.Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. 2.Fairness/cheating, Justice, treating others in proportion to their actions (He has also referred to this dimension as Proportionality.)...

Personally, I would argue that minimum wage should be tied to the salary of congress. This should appease the "less government waste" crowd as well as forces those who actually make the laws feel the true cost of labor. I could go either way as to how much of congresses salary minimum wage...

False, stop exaggerating. The OP argues for a Living Wage for a single person, quote "At a bare minimum, it should be enough to keep an individual working a 40 hour week above the poverty line." That means in Omaha the minimum wage should be $8.70 based on the OP's argument. This is actually a...