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For the most part, your arguments are being attacked, not yourself. I'm sure you're a decent, loving person. cya.

We don't know that santa hasn't magically tricked us all into thinking it's them when really it's him. Sorry but it's really not that simple to dismiss. For another example where your problem doesn't arise: The possibility that a magical leprechaun lives in my underpants drawer is equal with...

There are billions of muslims, hindu's etc feeling sorry for you while seemingly having a snide little laugh at the thought of your corrupt soul in hell. Personally I'm quite proud to not be one of the people feeling 'sorry' for others in such a way. -------------- Sorry to repeat but to...

People don't rely on the scripture to form their religious beliefs at all anyway, there's a filter of picking and choosing which is really just based off what they like. (1) The possibility that Santa Claus exists is equal with the possibility that your God exists - That's concrete enough for...

Seems to me like the common argument that ends in "you just killed beethoven" :) a quite simple retort imo is that perhaps you just killed hitler.

Answers have been attempted, some of them better than others, but none of them really satisfied me. They mostly revolve around the idea that your free-will has been pre-determined, making it only relatively free or something of that ilk. The weaker responses are usually 'God did it' :)

I believe there are things we can prove, however if you want to put all metaphysical matters as something science shouldn't touch (or maybe can't touch) then I'd argue that calls into question the validity of physical sciences. If that's your god then there's no argument for me to have, other...

No matter how much money you gave a university, there'd always be a chance for the university to have more money (and thereby offer more places to non-full fee students) by offering places to full-fee students.

If that's you're god than I'm a very religious man :) We cannot prove anything, not just metaphysical speculations by such a burden of proof. I'm not sure if you thought I'd personally agree with such views (or cared) but I don't. I would argue they're not really religious ideals and that...

Well I'd argue that all people should be given a standard of living to allow them to live, even if they're basically lazy pot-smoking hippies. Of course those with real reasons i.e. War Veterans, Young mothers etc should be given further assistance.

So you'd remove all basic services? If people are too lazy for whatever reason to get a job, just let them rot in the streets? I essentially agree with the concept, but I'm interested how you're applying it to our current conversation.

Dirt poor immigrants? I don't know about that, perhaps the generations after them. There is also the added social problems which the aboriginals are facing in Australia. I agree, nothing in the government (others may disagree), but I'd say aboriginals are still discriminated against in society...

I'm merely playing devil's advocate here, trying to explain why such systems are seen as better by some people. Essentially though I imagine the argument to your point would be that: It's not always a matter of effort. We should ensure that even those that put in less effort, still have a...

What do you mean? I have no problem with differences in standard of living being used as a case for descrimination. I do actually find fault with what I've just wrote though, on reflection, we definately do need to look at individual cases. People may be better off on the whole, but if they're...

You believe non-aboriginals are being discriminated against? All indicators would show, despite some fairly good government efforts to help these people out, they still are not doing as well as their non-aboriginal counterparts. If we're going to envoke the concept of 'discrimination' in...

It's not simply that they save more, it's that a higher % of their income can basically be spent on frivilous crap. Does it hurt you more if you've got less money to buy food or less money to visit the day spa?

Trump is a troll, you guys got trolled. Anyway I heard one time on the view he said if Ivanka wasn't his daughter he'd date her, I agree.

He's very christian so he probably would have had a crusafix necklace on.

Haha wow.

Its bit like these no-smoking zones. Everyone has the right to smoke wherever they want. They bring in these laws- to discourage people from smoking. People could smoke wherever they wanted basically in the past. No Hotshot, the purpose of the Non-Smoking zones is due to data on second-hand...