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    Philosophy in the classroom - The teaching of thinking

    I think there's a higher link between suicide and inability to find work / being dumped by your girlfriend to be honest...
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    Impossible without embryonic stem-cells. Well if such technology went far enough, heart disease would be eliminated. The only real long-term fear that I can think of (that I thought you were going to bring up) is a huge population of near-immortals in a universe of finite (that we can access)...
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    Philosophy in the classroom - The teaching of thinking

    What makes you suggest that? I mean, as far as I know, the most depressed/suicidal people are those out in the country with little/no access to higher levels of education. Despite what you seem to be implying, I don't think there are stupid masses that don't share the same sort of intellectual...
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    People aren't 'supposed' to do anything, darwinism (and basically all science ;) ) merely notes what IS happening. Explain to me how you can create insulin producing cells without using embryonic stem cells? Why?
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    The Abortion Debate (continued)

    Not a need, but to make things simpler, accepting bodies such as it as a planet was going to mean we'd have alot more planets, some of these much more rediculous to consider planets than pluto however a planet by the same facts that made pluto one.
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    The Abortion Debate (continued)

    As long as you can actually describe what is going on at any given time, it's fine. Common classifications really make it much easier though and there's no need to dismiss them.
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    Man, you do know stem-cell research is a part of biotechnology, right? It really seems odd to me that in claiming other promising fields should be looked into... you actually mentioned fields where stem-cell research is one of their main focuses lol.
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    I get all sorts of different meanings. Wait - Biotechnology? We do research it ? There's alot of money being invested into it in Australia as we speak?
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    The Abortion Debate (continued)

    There's always problems with defining things, maybe one day we'll use different words to explain the various stages of development, that doesn't change that the stages of development (as we described them) do occur. Such classifications are really just there to make it easier.
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    I think he just made the word up? :/
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    The Abortion Debate (continued)

    They're not arbitrary though, they're based off of what is actually happening to the organism...
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    Medicine is quite a different science where alot of the best testing you could want to do, to yield the best possible results, is risky to human life. It's also not '20 years of failure', real results have happened to move closer towards what is needed for cure(s)... Stem-cell research is a huge...
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    20 years is really nothing in medicine, especially with something as complex/drastic as what we are dealing with here. I would also claim there have been many huge results, but you're after 'cure for X', a really simplistic analysis imo. All of these places collaborate with each other, the...
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    Stem Cell Research, Genetic Engineering

    Embryotic stem cells? No. Pretty new research, lots of promising results so far.
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    Sex - Worth the wait?

    Well then why even ask this question like you needed help mate? You know why marriage means very little to some people and why they might not want to marry, for you marriage means more (mainly due to spiritual reasons) so you'll prefer to get married before having sex. big sigh. Because they...
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    Sex - Worth the wait?

    Sorry about getting the sex part wrong btw - But in the end, can you see why marriage might mean very little to some people? Other than the spiritual aspect (of which others will have a different opinion) I would argue you can get all those other outcomes without a marriage just as easily as...
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    Sex - Worth the wait?

    As you noted, such a commitment can happen without being married. The vow, while rhetorically meaning quite a bit - In practice, we can see, often means very little. Few people care that the government see's them as a couple, the government should mind its own business. The only real...
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    Sex - Worth the wait?

    Not everyone wants to sleep around alot, alot of people (just like you) want to find someone they truly like. There is also nothing wrong with sleeping around alot, even if you're just doing it for fun, those words are really immature insults. There's no need to define any sort of 'line'...
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    Sex - Worth the wait?

    All of those words you used crustafa are not insults usually thrown at someone for having sex before marriage, they're insults for people that sleep around alot, are easy, are bitches etc. No... If I go over to africa and call the tribe elder a fat skank none of them will care, because they...
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