lovek323

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by lovek323 14y ago
If Iceland's parliament were in fact "forcing someone's personal value upon a whole country", then I would also consider it to be morally wrong. However, the democratic process is there to guard against this sort of behaviour. It doesn't al
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by lovek323 14y ago
Of course not. That's why societies have things like police and prisons. Making it illegal is, of course, about reducing its prevalence, but it's also about society saying, 'these are our standards'. One will never stop all men from beating
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by lovek323 14y ago
I really like social experimentation (to a sane degree, of course). Why shouldn't Iceland ban pornography (if it does so through a democratic process)? I'd quite like to see what happens.
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by lovek323 14y ago
Seems to me that this is the whole correlation and causation thing (a 'questionable cause' logical fallacy). There are probably great benefits that come from having access to the Internet. The question that needs to be answered here is whet
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by lovek323 14y ago
I am not dismissing Sam Harris' book out of hand (as I haven't read it), but I would be surprised to find his argument that "a scientific approach to morality would make us more moral" convincing. In order for Harris to show that his approa
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by lovek323 14y ago
You make a great point. The purpose of law is not to uphold scientific principles, but to reflect and enforce the standards of society.
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by lovek323 14y ago
Awesome. I spend a lot of time camping and the books I use to discover new places are often out of date with directions that only the seasoned explorer could follow.
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by lovek323 14y ago
This is what happens when we try to simplify the language. It should be paedophile not pedophile and thus #opPaedoChat :)