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"<I>n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Sure a...

I think there is a political discussion to be had, which is related to a question about religion in the public sphere. Imagine that Bob is a National-Socialist. His wife, Zarinda, is not allowed to leave the house by Bob unless she wears a swastika somewhere on her person. In France - and most West...

Me being an asshole, wouldn't me calling him awesome send the wrong signal, like an endorsement by, say, Kissinger not really being that great an endorsement? I'll abstain from any celebratory behaviour pending a solution.

Should be dealt with in any decent introduction into analytic philosophy. I'd have to do some reading to provide a decent explanation - but it does require some background knowledge.. I.E. you might as well take a course in analytic philosophy

Oh yeah him, but his text, Buckley, puts me to sleep. Can't blame you there. However, the problem is not so much with conservative thinkers as much as it is that the right in America is anti-intellectual. This means that the Republican party has done everything in its power to cleanse itself of the...

The right doesn't produce much literature worth reading, so that leaves the left. Yeah, how come their anncoulters and glennbecks are all the equivalent of Dave Barry. I can only think of PJ that I can actually read as humor even. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.J._O%27Rourke William Buckley? Some o...

The problem is not so much a liberal bias in the Harvard establishment, as Nixon might put it, and how this extends to other universities and how this reflects selections of literature there, but questions about classes about economy in highschool and other schools. In the Netherlands, we have polit...

I think there is a political discussion to be had, which is related to a question about religion in the public sphere. Imagine that Bob is a National-Socialist. His wife, Zarinda, is not allowed to leave the house by Bob unless she wears a swastika somewhere on her person. In France - and most Weste...

I'm sexually frustrated and I approve of this message.

You mean to say that when it comes to topics that you know something about, that you have studied, you agree with me whereas on those topics on which you have not studied you disagree with me? Perhaps the two are related somehow? Just, food for thought! :) It really was all woo and not remotely scie...

Carl Jung was a silly man in a lot of ways. Bit of an understatement. The entirety of psychoanalysis has included only the most unstable and deluded characters one may find in a movement.. I would say that Freud in the misrepresentation of his cases, and the fabrication of his ideas about psychoana...

Well, there you go.. The study differentiates between broad and narrow definitions. I don't share their reservations about the lack of importance of this distinction. On the other hand, I don't think questionnaires are a very good way of measuring child abuse either. That said, I think 1 in 5 is a s...

With respect (lol), what you consider to be, "in principle" or "technically" rape is irrelevant to the discussion. The law does NOT call sex with a consenting 15-year-old rape. I'll use simple words now. So you it's easier. So you can know what I mean. Below age of consent means no consent. 15 is b...

Err.. Maybe you should ask a lawyer what 'age of consent' means, rather than interpreting the interpretation of a telegraph journalist. For clarification, the age of consent is the age at which individuals can legally consent to sex. Technically, all sexual relations with someone under 16 is without...

Fuck it. Finally, Aside from questions of content validity, and the degree to which 'sexual abuse' represents what it said to represent by the laymen, there are questions about the accuracy of data. Rape is an overreported and underreported phenomenon. That seems contradictory, but it is not. Many ...