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It's easy to invent reasons why any research might be wrong. Of course, actually convincing anyone but yourself (and people who already agree with you) that your reasons are actually valid is another matter :p Seriously, I recommend reading up on statistics. Seeing as how they seem to crop in...

Are you a neuroscientist? How can you possibly be qualified to make that assessment? Just because something was impossible in the past doesn't mean it can't happen some day. Not fully, no. If you take away the "murdering psycho" part of someone who has built their life around it, then a large...

:rolleyes: Actually, the map of countries with universal healthcare is an almost perfect negative of the death penalty one:

Thanks :) It's utterly devoid of content since it doesn't address the individuals that make up those nations. Well, a "gotcha" moment may be stimulating for you, but misses my point, which is that it is not generally true that it is in the individual persons best interest to view the military...

It's only funny because it's so foolish ;) False comparison. (see below) That completely disregards the fact that nations are not individuals. They are abstract entities. A war between two nations can be a war that the individual has absolutely nothing invested in. Take for example a pacifist...

The end justifies the means :lol:

That's a far cry from war, though. (I know you were answering a specific post, but it needs pointing out that the "what if your girlfriend was attacked" argument doesn't hold in discussions about war)

The main reason I'm against it is since it can't always be perfectly implemented and in the cases where its not the consequences are very harsh. The situation you describe is just too esoteric and is not the type of crime thats a major problem anyway. Policies have to be chosen with the real...

Why is it a good thing?

To be honest, I'd actually prefer a pro-death penalty lobbyist source to one thats just plain wrong. :lol: Yup, those authors sure were fanatical anti-death penalty types.. I don't really know where to go with a statement like that :rolleyes: (btw read the last link I posted if you missed the...

Because you can discredit a method of treating data. It shows that the statistical analyses performed on 'death penalty as deterrent' data are weak, flawed and prone to the bias of the researcher. Did you read all of it? :) [EDIT] Here's another source discussing the issue...

Like I said above, because the method itself used in the article you posted is flawed ;) It's explained quite adequately in the links I posted. Of course it does. Read it. It doesn't matter where the file is stored, as long as the author isn't biased ;) Isn't that rather obvious? The bottom...

Well, it's not so much the statistical data that's the point here, the point is that the data analysis performed in MobBosses links was based on poor/flawed mathematics together with preconceived notions and therefore was not at all 'robust' as the authors stated. Again, it's not the data, its...

:rolleyes: Sigh. That's what you get from poor research: http://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp1949.html Also: www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/DonohueDeter.pdf (and before you start on about it being biased, read the first page properly ;)) Yeah, you won alright ;) [EDIT] You really need to learn to...

Imho there are no lasting general gameplay lessons to be learned from noble, no barbarians, Incas. Unless you are doing something very specific like aiming to e.g. improve your launch times for fastest space race victory.

FPS games are art now?

Really? Source? (of course, I'd wager there's no such study, or it was produced by a lobbyist organization :rolleyes: ) How christian of you.

What are their separate merits?

Nah, but Angus would (without actually harming them, tho ;))

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. But I'd say do it just for fun. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a longer-term relationship between you guys won't work, since there seems to be communication problems going on. If you've had this much trouble working out if you want to date...