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Haha, yeah, pretty much. I geuss that's the kind of thing I was angling at in my above post part (3) where I asked "If more 'bad' people are born than 'good' people then isn't it possible that a higher birth rate might have a negative effect?"

As far as I know I understand what you're saying, I just don't agree with it. In the following I'll try to explain why I take issue with the 'The World needs change, new beings might provide change, therefore we shouldn't allow abortions in order to facilitate change' argument: (1) Bringing...

So I take that you believe that: Humans have a right to life because they are alive, with the justification of this being that life is changing and the world requires changing. A few points I would like to make in response: (1) I'd like to challenge your logic that 'the world requires...

Frankly, I don't think that you can end this debate so swiftly. I think one misconstrues the debate if they depict it as one which hinges on whether or not an unborn child is alive. That an unborn child is alive, biologically, is not really worth debating. We know that an unborn child is alive...

1. If you meant the 'myUNSW' timetable ---> the medicine timetable for phase 1 is variable and, as such, you don't get a 'static' myUNSW timetable. You need to login to emed if you want to view your timetable. If you meant the emed timetable ---> planning for the med timetable often continues...

As far as I know, the statement that "you cannot study for the UMAT" is a lie. I did the med-entry course and I definately noticed a practice effect - that the more exposure I had had to UMAT question types and their solutions, the better I performed on the tests. Even if one wishes to deny that...

Fair call, we do actually use robbins, and it's another textbook that I quite like. However, at home I have a fairly old edition (third edition) and so I don't use it as much. When I need the path knowledge I usually just borrow a more recent one from the 1 hour loan section of the library. All...

1. For semester 1 you should be enrolled in 'foundations' and 'beginnings growth & development' (BGD). The first course, foundations, is an introductory course designed to get you used to the basic concepts in medicine and the workload - you don't have to stress about it because you can't really...

Haha, well i'm certainly out of that game right now (girlfriend etc), though I can't speak for the intentions of others :P. And LottoX, as to what you should be expecting: you can expect a lot of socializing activities designed to help you to get to know us and your fellow first years. There...

To Lotto and Stella: Congrats on getting into UNSW, it's a pretty tough process. Hopefully I'll see you guys on medcamp - I'll be there as part of the group of second years who come to run activities etc. All the best - KFunk

Considering all that you've said below I think that it depends on the ground rules you've established in your relationship e.g. whether you guys want to be totally exclusive (evidently not a mutal thing) and whether you mind if the other party messes around every now and then. While I know that...

To be fair, the ILP is only really 6 months (it's a 24 credit point program... 48 in a year). However, the ILP can be replaced by an honours year, for those with a desire to do some research, which adds 6 months to the degree and leads to the award of BMedSci(hons). It only adds half a year...

Hey, I'm in the BA/MBBS program at UNSW and the science --> medicine pathway at USyd was my second option so I can understand your dilemma (though mine was without scholarship issues and all the stuff attached to the provisional med offers from USyd). In terms of taking arts units: - At UNSW...

It's wider than that I think.... RACP = Royal Australiasian College of Physicians, which includes paediatricians.

I am not entirely clear about what you mean by a judgement being 'meaningful' or 'relevant'. From what I can see it involves you being in a position in which you are able to enact that judgement or render it explicit i.e. by making a choice in a situation or by voting, or some such. As per...

Seeing as our multiple threads of debate seem to be converging towards a similar point I'm going to move the discussion to the abortion thread where I feel discussions of ethics/morality are more appropriate.

Because I thought that you had placed me in their camp, so I assumed that we hold some beliefs in common. If my assumption was wrong then I apologise.

The circularity of that statement tells me nothing - think about it: 'we can make a judgement... but only where we can make such a judgement'. This is like saying "The only time I am allowed to cry is when I am allowed to cry". Could you clarify the above for me?

Whether democracy can be trusted to create the appropriate outcomes seems to me to be an empirical matter, as it requires to determine whether, and if so how frequently, democracy creates the appropriate outcomes. I don't think that either of us possess the knowledge required to determine the...

In response to the 'argument' thing: I might agree with set theorists that 1 + 1 = 2 without knowing how to prove that 1 + 1 = 2 using set theory. My case may be analagous to this or it may be a matter of ignorance. Frankly I've never read anything which outlines the premises of progressivism...