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taxpayers should subsidize the murder of small boys.

lolwat. How does the government banning things and then making you jump through hoops to get back what should have never been banned, equate to taxpayers subsidising costs and risks? Last time I checked I was responsible for any risks I took while driving.

I have a job.

There are heaps of super fast cars available to P-platers, RX-8, Lotus elise, S2000, only porsches built after 1994 are banned (because it would just be silly for P-platers to not be able to drive a 924)- an N/A 1993 911 is still an insanely fast car and P-legal. The thing they all have in...

Oh man, I just looked up the cartoon. Swear to god it said something different before. shit. I didn't even realize. I probably saw the cartoon originally 4 real, and then reproduced it subconsciously.

As an example, if you had to perform medical research that could potentially save lives for adult humans, but this research is dangerous and performing it on a chimp was a viable substitute for human experimentation, and this research will potentially save thousands of human lives at the expense...

No, I don't think those cars are inherently dangerous. They can be driven safely without any particular difficulty. Enforcing the existing road laws to maintain safe driving is the answer, punishing safe drivers who wish to drive those cars is completely unfair and unjustified. If they are...

I am on my fulls. I don't believe there should be any limit.

Plenty of low powered old bombs are dangerous and require a skilled driver. You can spin a normal petrol ute easily on any wet road. Don't believe in the nanny state.

Obviously they're not biologically human. But are they deserving of more or less rights than some of the examples of genetically human, yet functionally impaired organisms provided. Are they more or less valuable and in need of protection? is the topic of this thread. I find it...

Valid.

I think that children have fundamentally the same legal and moral protection as adults, but less rights than adults, and are in ways effectively treated as property, giving the adult 'owner' responsibility to prevent neglect, very similar to the legal and moral responsibilities for many animals...

I think you're being pretty liberal here with your use of concepts like 'difficult' and 'hard to control'.

The point of viability varies according to the state of medical technology, it is odd to hold that a foetus has a right to life if the pregnant woman lives in London, but not if she lives in New Guinea. I made a thread on this...

To describe a being as 'human' is to use a term that straddles two distinct notions: membership of the species Homo sapiens, and being a person, in the sense of a rational or self-conscious being. Is it enough to say a person is simply an organism that is genetically a member of the species...

Try to focus on your own hedonistic pleasure, and emotionally distance yourself from the girl.

What exactly does late night kebab tastes like? I really like kebabs, how have they attempted to capture this in chip form?

You only really addressed the first part of my post. I have no doubt that they did observe something, and it is difficult, or impossible to explain the origin with our present scientific knowledge. A lack of an explanation does not mean you should jump to a supernatural conclusion. There are...

Though sympathetic to your cause, I think attempting to argue science can presently explain the origin of the universe is flawed, kwayera. Concepts like quantum physics and gravitational singularities follow certain physical laws. Though you've pushed god back from the discussion, and...

The 100'000 number is disputed, and of what witnesses there were, their accounts vary and contradict each other, and are subject to exaggeration due to the emotional fervour whipped up prior to the event. Regardless of which, there is no reason to assume this event has a supernatural origin...