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I am not, I'm a complete rascal.

Freedom to believe what you want should not mean that you can declare an arbitrary illegal or immoral act a tenet of your faith and claim religious immunity. We ought to decide whether something is good or bad on it's own merits, not on whether it is sacrosanct to someone.

Why not?

All of those practices are different in that they are reversible and.or are are willfully participated in by consenting adults. I don't think circumcision should be illegal, but it is not the sort of thing you should force upon a child, it's a decision you should make when you are old enough to...

Same :)

That's up to Muslims.

How can you cure something that isn't a malady? If sexual orientation realignment pills were to exist, then I wouldn't really care one way or another.

Eff 'em all.

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I'm complex. :]

I am more interested in truth than happiness. So, there you go.

But your definition of simpler is absurd! You are making sure an equation always applies in all situations by positing an uncountably infinite number of worlds! Quantum mechanics is very similar to probability, but with a different sort of norm - a different way of making sure all the...

Nuclear power has a lower death rate per TWh than any other energy source. People just hate it because it is hip. Apparently it's really uncool to give a ... about the thousands killed every year while mining coal or saddled with related health problems.

"The reason I'm optimistic is easy to see; it's because I came through the 1930s. I was a teenager in the 1930s, when things were from every point of view much worse than they are today. We had a terrible economic depression, millions of people out of work, much more than now, we had Hitler to...

But it would be absurd for another species to have a different value of pi, with the same understanding of what pi means, and to still build functioning wheels (or at least, to understand those wheels). They are either talking about something slightly different but formally related or they...

The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

I think that, given a set of axioms, some consequences follow inevitably, and that this isn't just a human invention. Similarly, if I instruct any sapient being in how to play chess, how the pieces move and the end goal, it wouldn't matter whether they played some sort of different game where...

Many worlds is a silly interpretation of QM. I don't understand why it's adherents don't also posit that every possible outcome of a probabilistic system is realised in a different world, just to preserve evolution via stochastic matrices. Unitarity is just magical for some reason.

Since I can rotate time and space into one another via Lorentz transformation (read: by changing my velocity), this is the exact same as asking "does length have an existence outside of our imaginations and use of it as a measure?" Do you think the latter is a reasonable question?