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  1. ibx
    This is really ironic coming from somebody who beat addiction with the help of a higher power...
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    People that use a minimum of courtesy when discussing issues with strangers. Common sense, to stay with the water cycle. You do understand that cycle means what goes down will eventually resurface? Is that not common sense? Point made. So these are the kind of fantasies you have when think of your neighbors, your guns and your job? I wonder what made you choose a career as a paramedic in the first place. Is it for same reason arsonists are often in a fire department? The very line above this one in your post makes me think otherwise...
  3. ibx
    It's his intellectual prowess.
  4. ibx
    The Article has spawned over 80 replies. This is Speakers Corner where people come discuss politics and related issues. Now you are personally attacking me for posting the thread. You have contributed nothing to this discussion or any other for that matter in an adult and, you like the word so much, "coherent" way. You are aggressive and dismissive without any form of argument. Why don't you either contribute like an adult or shut the fuck up?
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    It has become politically beneficial to deny facts. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182365/-Dollars-for-Deniers-Big-Oil-Funds-Climate-Science-Denialism http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-newton/science-denial-on-the-ris_b_413848.html?view=print http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/03/20/research-reveals-almost-all-climate-science-denial-books-linked-conservative-think-tanks
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    I'll just reply to last comment. Thanks for your well thought out responses. I agree with you. I think the Money is a large driving force as well as shifting responsibility to an illness. There are lots of other "modern" illnesses that fall into this category - Asperger's anybody that s socially a little awkward has Asperger's. I would also argue that depression falls into this category, while I do recognize that depression can be a very serious issue. And anybody who knows somebody that committed suicide because of depression (I do) will probably chime in scream otherwise. Yet I think a lot people with a beginning depression would benefit more from routine excersize and a routine daily life than they do from medication...
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/katie-hopkins/why-must-everything-be-a-medical-condition_b_3751096.html
  8. ibx
    Or an amputee GI ...
  9. ibx
    This is the level of arguing you'll have to put with. You won't get any counter arguments or have your points debated. Your source will simply be dismissed as "stupid".
  10. ibx
    That's where you're wrong. Without political will to shift towards cleaner methods of transportation, including subsidies and environment laws mankind will take easiest most profitable path without any afterthought as to what it might mean for the environment or future generations.
  11. ibx
    You're defending the Iraq war? There are really still people out there defending the Iraq war. I have seen everything now.
  12. ibx
    Yeah it's a good thing you(the US) didn't go there and fuck things up in the first place.
  13. ibx
    You have asked the same question for the third or fourth time, you constantly reply to threads with multiple posts where one thought out response would suffice.You immediately dismiss any arguments that counter your stance regardless of common sense. I know Internet personalty != real personality. But judging from how you carry yourself on here, I would think you have some anger issues and would not feel safe if I was your neighbor, we had a small difference in opinion and you had access to a lot of fire power... That's just how you come across on the Internet. I bet in real life you are very chill guy ;-)
  14. ibx
    I disagree! HA!
  15. ibx
    I totally agree with you on this. It's just that Larrys software is probably a big part in making this possible. Large databases and workflow engines...
  16. ibx
    Ironic, once you realize that Larry is in the business of big data...
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    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water
  18. ibx
    Wow BikerBabe, that was most arrogant post I have ever read in SC.... You pretend like this is a settled issue among scholars... implying that there is some sort of set of objective moral statements. Ignoring historical context. And being unable to apply any of this to real world. No go back to your philosophy 101 course and let the partisans argue issues in black in white.
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    What does that have to do with anything ?
  20. ibx
    I don't know, was yours? What do laws of nature, natures god(whatever that is) have to do with morals ?
  21. ibx
    That's what you say in hindsight... I wonder if a Christian slave owner in 1840 saw it that way... What about killing somebody? Is killing someone immoral? Is homosexuality universally immoral? Show me the universal set of morals that you think exist...
  22. ibx
    WTF are you talking about? Laws of nature, Natures God, What do these words mean ?
  23. ibx
    Nope, I personally believe that moral values are mainly based on the society in which one is raised. Change takes a very long time and always has to overcome major opposition... See the civil war. The French revolution and so on... This discussion is very very complex though and far from decided... I think most people though are intrinsically good, at least to their circle of empathy... Thanks to globalization and instant communication your circle of empathy should cover most of mankind...
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    Bullshit, moral values change over time. 150 years ago it was morally totally OK to own slaves, beat your wife and children and take land from the natives... That is total contradiction. Either people know good from evil or they are taught it by their parents... Which is it ?
  25. ibx
    As long as they are not CIA funded they are frowned upon...