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That is ridiculous. Three people die from rabies and you go on a rampage to exterminate them? Between 1979-1996, the average number of deaths from dog bites was 17 per year. Regardless of what "society" thinks, do you feel that that would justify exterminating every dog in America? If...

diplomatic, you are completely ignoring the fact that the dogs are private property.

If you twist my words around, sure that's what I said. My point was that you don't have to live in a region, whether it is Nazi Germany or modern day China, to identify its people's actions as morally wrong, which you were implying. Buying an insect spray to kill spiders in my own house is...

It's not a question of whether they HAVE human rights, it's a question of whether they SHOULD HAVE human rights (from the government's point of view). In reality, they do have human rights, as does everyone (except for criminals, etc), but the government is infringing upon them. That is what...

The problem with this is not the fact that animals are being killed, even though it is pretty abhorrent (similar to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_sparrow_campaign), it's that the government is essentially seizing private property and destroying it, and even worse, without providing...

You're right! Now that I think about it, if gods don't exist, how did Luke ever defeat Darth Vadar! How was Rapunzel able to grow her hair so long! How did Hercules rise from the underworld! How did Noah build a ship big enough to hold all of the animals in the world! Oops that one's supposed to...

I wouldn't expect my explanation to make 100% sense, it's based on concept that I believe to be false (the existence of God). A-Unit essentially said, "God must exist because consciousness exists." But if God is conscious, then consciousness exists without us being conscious, so God could not...

Does time exist? Not as a concrete entity, but as a concept. Just as you can change position within space, space itself can change position within time. I would like to see how you can prove that consciousness preceeds existence.

If I go to college, get a degree in teaching, and teach high school for the rest of my life, I will be making significantly less money than a truck driver who has no degree whatsoever. So why didn't all of the high school teachers in the country skip school and go to college? Because they didn't...

A-Unit, it sounds to me that you think that because existence and consciousness exist, something had to create them both. Well, whatever created them had to exist at some point right? What created that? And what created that? Your answer to what appears to be an unanswerable question is just...

Actually, when you start getting into theories about higher dimensions, multiple universes can co-exist. http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php If we were points on a line, the line might be analagous to our universe... every "thing" (in terms of points, which is what our dimension consists...

When I say that God does not imply religion, I am not referring to anyone's particular god or their specific beliefs, but the idea of a supernatural being. If religion did not exist whatsoever, the same concept of a God could be discussed without ever hitting on religion. In that sense I believe...

By the way, just because religion implies a god or supernatural, "God" does not itself imply religion.

I agree. Anyway, I was about to reply when I realized the thread was closed. A-Unit, the reason that God cannot exist is because "its" existence would contradict the law of identity. For something to exist independantly of consciousness, there would be an underlying implication of the primacy...

There's probably a good reason for this. You should probably make sure all of your finances are under control and then figure out what options you have for buying something that costs a lot of money.

Science DOES give us absolutes. Science is applying reason to observation. If I observe that gold is denser than carbon, I have observed an absolute. If I take that one step further and say, since gold is denser than carbon, I can fit a greater mass of gold than carbon into a given box, then I...

Who knows what I'm going to care about in 60 years? I don't. I'm not going to spend my life trying to make my last dying breath one of satisfaction, I'm going to spend it enjoying it all the way through. That doesn't mean you shouldn't set goals and work up to them future, but the most important...

Congratulations?

Be careful of some multivitamins. If you ingest too much iron it could be ugly.

The fact of the matter is, the government has no right to tell people how to run their businesses uness they are infringing upon someone's rights. However, this thread won't be open long so I won't go into it.