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13 years ago @ The Heritage Foundry - From Marriage to a Mer... · 0 replies · +1 points

Prove that marriage is a religious institution first. Strange - I write about marriage laws in the US and never read that anywhere...

14 years ago @ http://www.calamitieso... - Calamities of Nature -... · 0 replies · +1 points

Exhibitionism has always been a fuzzy issue and I admit it's difficult. But for almost every other situation, "injure" refers to physical and financial harm for adults. "Mental injury" by saying stuff for example doesn't count.

14 years ago @ http://www.calamitieso... - Calamities of Nature -... · 6 replies · +14 points

Actually I would call "civilized" the freedom to do whatever one wants as long as one doesn't injure anyone else. There are no other "rules" worth talking about.

15 years ago @ Expressions - Bhagwad ... - Is Islam really the mo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes Hari - Violence is violence irrespective of the disguise. Who is to say for example, that the victim would accept such a trade, where his/her life is traded off for blood money or forgiveness...

15 years ago @ Expressions - Bhagwad ... - "Bias" in Indian Media... · 0 replies · +1 points

No issues :)

Actually when I said that I would write a separate blog post I was referring to the whole "consensus" thing. Let's see how it turns out!

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15 years ago @ http://culturalfascina... - What people really mea... · 1 reply · +1 points

Ask any of these people to name even two people who have been "harmed" when they say things like "society is harmed" and they'll stare at you with blank faces.

What irritates me is that people accept such statements blindly. How can "society" be harmed when there's no such entity that's alive in the first place? Who measures it? Who defines it? Where is the gospel that states xyz is good or bad for something that no one can observe?

15 years ago @ FoxTwo's Ramblings - NoSpamNX - Kicks Spam ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I too am using NoSpamNX. What I'd really like though is a plugin that prevents the bots from accessing the site in the first place instead of blocking them after they submit a comment. I wonder if that's even technically possible - like perhaps checking for javascript or something.

As of now a bot downloads the page, sends it back, and uses resources on the server. I wonder if we can stop them before that itself. I tried installed "Bad Behavior", but it hardly stopped anything.

Till then, NoSpamNX it is!

15 years ago @ http://culturalfascina... - Outsourced: Arranged m... · 1 reply · +1 points

For me, it's not a question of whether or not we get a better choice. As was mentioned, even arranged marriages have an element of choice.

The important distinction for me is that in cultures where arranged marriages take place, there's no option not to get married at all!

15 years ago @ http://culturalfascina... - Multiculturalism: Le'... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sorry - I meant it shouldn't extend to practices that harm someone else. Corrected it in the comment.

15 years ago @ http://culturalfascina... - Multiculturalism: Le'... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think multi culturalism can be extended only to the point where the practices don't infringe on another person's freedoms. Going by that definition, it means we respect the way people dress (something that France isn't doing with the Burqa), respect their opinions, their way of looking at the world, what they eat, how they look, what job they do etc etc.

But it shouldn't extend to supporting practices that harm someone else.

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