Recent content by BasketCase

Wrong on all counts except one. With a single exception, none of these things have anything to do with socialism. Nope. These things aren't socialist either. Rather the opposite--centralized control of education and health care is one of the hallmarks of fascism. State-funded = STATE control...

Conformed to which group?? The ones who carried the spears and swords. .....nonexistent. Your entire list of claims is hypothetical; while it's reasonable to assume that ancient humans might have reasoned the way you claimed they do, there's no evidence they actually did. We can't deduce much...

The fact that it occurs in America. And also the fact that the IRA is not big on suicide bombers, is not calling for a holy war or jihad, and demonstrates nowhere near the level of insane zealotry that Islam does. I do. You don't see it because you don't want to. Explanation forthcoming next...

What's strange about it? Somewhere around fifteen thousand people get murdered in the U.S. every year; the assailant in this particular case is not special at all. He is (excuse me--WAS) just another murdering dirtbag.

The burden of proof goes the other way on that; you must prove you are a citizen in order to run for President. None needed; it's already common knowledge he's a citizen.

It's not a massacre in a nation of three hundred million people. The assailant is dead. Good riddance to him. :deadhorse:

American law does require you to be a born American in order to be President. American law does not require you to release your tax returns to be President.

And a larger number of such people have moved in the other direction. Big Picture, dude. To be sure, climate change alarmism still has sheer weight of numbers on its side. Of course. And when it's a skeptic such as myself presenting ironclad evidence that climate change isn't being caused...

Nice try. It is common sense. Whoever makes and enforces the rules is the dominant entity. If there's nobody making or enforcing rules, and people are free to do whatever they want, the violent and cruel become dominant. This is self-evident simply from reading world history and observing what...

So what?? What I said last post was, no other group has reacted to AMERICAN violence as radically as Muslims. And, truth be told, even on a worldwide scale, radical violence and terrorism are the exception and not the rule. Many nations have brutalized various groups over the course of history...

Don't care. Do it without straw-man or loaded-question shenanigans. If you were trying to prove my position to be bogus by calling it a categorical straw-man/loaded-question, you can't do that by presenting examples with a straw man or a loaded question in them--all that means is, you presented...

No. Only the foundation is arbitrary; whatever you build from that is in fact, solidly based on reason. To be sure, any moral system must begin with an act of faith; if we ask "why is murder a bad thing", we can answer "because it's wrong to kill people", and then we end up asking "why is it...

Irrelevant. Shortly after those other conflicts ended, the violence against civilians almost always stopped quickly. Japan got it far worse than any Muslim nation ever did. But you didn't see Japanese trying to suicide-bomb Americans one year after the war ended. One year later, one decade...

With the first time one human being stabbed another with a spear. And what is this, really? Dominance by whoever administers the social sanctions, banishments, or death. Any political system that is policed, is dominated by the police. Any system that is not policed (anarchy, for all practical...

Not funny at all to hear you commit yet another straw-man fallacy. I argued that the majority of Chick-Fil-A's new customers are going there to spite pro-gay wingnuts; that should be obvious, since most of them started going to CFA after the protests happened. I did not argue what you're saying...