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Reminds me of a recent article in a local newspaper. Some bloke went on Facebook and said all cats caught out after dark should be fair game. Because of what they do to the local ecology, and all that. Everyone knows what cats do to the local wildlife, around here, but they prefer to ignore...

Never once mentioned your name, don't care who did. You're not Bells, you're a representative. Your problem is that you don't understand that - or more that you gain more personally from deliberately misconstruing it. Well, Bells, you did make me laugh. This thread has gone from a...

Which is an activity you're quite willing to indulge in, when it suits your purpose. And not when it's not. In this case, the bad guys are the bad guys, but... she asked for it. Yet in another thread, you'll defend the rights of Rodney King and make him a millionaire - if it helps prevent...

Ah. The form of my punishment is to be a warning for "off-topic posting", as advised by moderator PM. It is now a crime to point out inconsistency of thought, doubly so if the question is raised against those in authority. Basically, if one wishes to point out that an argument can have little...

Ah. Tantalizing little glimpses of the inner crackpot. Nothing much in the way of substance there to reply to, really.

Um hmm. And yet so many choose to do as little as possible to earn what they are paid. Those who put in only their share of work as necessary would not be denying themselves, would they? They're getting exactly what everyone else is. How long do you think it would take, in your ideal world...

Basically, yes. No, we should not be celebrating it. We can, however, acknowledge that the decision was, particularly in hindsight, a good one - "good" in the context only of American survival and dominance, of course. Supporting a decision is not the same as celebrating it. Only you choose to...

Where is the incentive to produce? Most men, given the knowledge that they must only achieve this in order to produce that, and the gain will be exactly the same as it always is regardless of effort, will choose to do as little as possible to satisfy that requirement in terms of productive...

And how do you imagine all of this is going to be achievable, other than as slow progress within the confines of the system we already have? Can you advocate another system where it will be more easily achievable? Given that the issues you have with it, as I've already pointed out, are in the...

Laugh it up. And then tell us all what you would have it realistically replaced with.... under any system. Advocating tearing down the entire system without a single clue as to what it might be replaced with, is why people like you are rarely successful - other than by accident. Which does, I...

Is that not exactly what is happening? You are aware that the ratio of leisure time to work time has been steadily growing since the industrial revolution? There are bumps in that road, of course, as a result of cultural and other factors, but the line on that graph is heading in only one...

Yes, I suppose, if you wanted to oversimplify it... granted, of course, that in this environment one often feels the need to do so. I'm less interested in who shot who and why, than in the consistency of thought consistently not shown by those here who deem themselves to be the moral majority...

No, I don't agree, I said it. In reply, I'm going to allow your insistence on these "forced delays", even while being fully and intimately aware on my own part of the machinations of government and how that might have contributed to those delays. Your "facts", while potentially (and, of course...

Which is why people should pay more attention to Ayn Rand's switch operator in "Atlas Shrugged" than they do... perhaps more than Rand herself ever did. Don't ever limit yourself to a "thirst for knowledge". While that is admirable, it is not necessary other than as a tool, for those who...

Exactly right. The USA knew China and Russia were coming, they knew that dominance in the pacific region would have been in flux had they not acted quickly, and they did exactly what they needed to do. It absolutely boggles the mind that people still use it as an argument against them. This...

Yes, it is entirely asymetrical. And when that same tired argument appears, people have this rather silly tendency to go along with it, to give it credence, as though it's a telling point one must pause to consider. Because in the west, we must tolerate that which is clearly beyond tolerance...

Pretty much everything, when one considers consistency of thought. Try victim blaming, instead. Perhaps those words might help. Rhetoric being what it is.

You'll find a partial reply as to my own views on these subjects in this thread: http://www.sciforums.com/threads/new-mohammed-shooting-in-texas.145885/page-2#post-3296058 Add Lee Kuan Yew to your list. There are many to this day in Singapore who hate the man - but one must consider his vision...

And lastly, I wonder if you have considered a wider view, here. This is a fairly classical chicken or egg scenario, you know. Ask yourself if Gellar would ever have gained any recognition or made the news at all, had not Islam begun to take itself so very seriously. Personally, I'd draw a...

I don't necessarily agree. While religion might be one of the most easily identifiable "dangerous" beliefs, there are several others slightly more amorphous which give it a run for its money. One should never cling to an ideal to the point of insanity. "...But since it is my object to write...