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Politesse reacted to BSilvEsq's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with
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DBT, this is Bruce Silverstein. I appreciate that you have used my Quora post to support your position -- with which I fully agree. I... -
Politesse replied to the thread Prostitution and the Bible.Ironically, it was seminary that broke me of that very... habit.
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Politesse replied to the thread Prostitution and the Bible.My point is that they aren't the same thing. The Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospels and Paul's letters are fundamentally different...
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Politesse replied to the thread Prostitution and the Bible.It seems like you are approaching this as a logical problem, more than a legal one. One could in theory, simply pass a law that says...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.How this translates to blindly hero-worshipping the Founding Fathers, and getting angry when people criticize them, eludes me. If the...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.It's not a social crisis when someone's personal cognitive dissonance results in them giving people presents. When cognitive distortions...
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Yes Politesse, that is the book I was referring too. An excellent read for those who have no idea how poor white people were treated...
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Politesse replied to the thread Happy Halloween.Merry Samhain! It was our first Halloween in the suburbs, so I had no idea whether to expect trick or treaters or not. There were...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.Shhh bilby, you know white Americans don't like to acknowledge that blacks might have had a right to fair treatment before the state...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.How are we going to prevent that by chiding people for calling slavery wrong, or tiptoing around the actions of our forebears? By your...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.Changing our minds is NOT the same thing as not having known.
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.No, it's like criticizing the Wright Brothers for being racist. So morality is just, what, to you? Majority rules? That is how law...
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None. Including our current ones. Humans have always been vicious hypocritical arseholes who have done horrible things to each...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.Are you trying to claim that no one in the late 18th century knew that slavery was wrong? Why then did so many of our Founding Fsthers...
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Politesse replied to the thread BOTH SIDES.Okay, yes, "genuine" is a bit of a stretch. Jefferson's hypocrisies are well known. Washington was a slave-owner, and personally...