"It may develop into a person..." Does that mean it "may" develop into something else? At what point does it cease to be a "lump of cells?" Where is the line? Why am I not just a "lump of cells" now that just happens to think and feel - are those not just byproducts of my biology in that case?
Just about all of those studies are rather vague in their definitions, and appear to stretch some things. Here's the problem - a VAST majority of people in this country eat enough, have jobs, and can be educated. Period. There's an EASY formula to follow - graduate high school, don't get pregnant before marriage, and hold a job for two years. You WON'T be poor and you WON'T go hungry. This is a social/motivation/parenting problem, NOT a money problem in America.
Sooooo...where does the money to do all that come from? Is the Indian government providing money for mining, widget-making, and software, or is that coming from private industry which has the freedom to use its own money as it sees fit for investment?
I agree with you generally about the hypocrisy of the radical Islamist leadership, but it only takes one or a few within the leadership who is a "true believer." The Iranian mullahs and their president are banging hard on that door.
I'm not really offended, but it comes down for when life starts. Both Biblically and humanistically, I believe that we MUST value unborn life as a society, and not subject it to the whims of "the greater good," which rarely turns out as such. We consider human testing on anything other than volunteers as inhumane. If I consider the unborn as human, what other position am I supposed to take?
You're thinking like a rational westerner, and not a radical Islamist. They have suicide bombers, and don't care about killing their own people - that mentality could easily carry over with nuclear weaponry.
The Iranians, while likely over-exaggerating their capabilities, are not held by the constraints that the rest of the western world uses. I honestly believe that they may have used them by now. I'm almost surprised the Pakistanis never did, but they've had too much internal turmoil to do anything further since gaining capability.
To end it - keep that in mind. Iran appears to have some sort of ambition to start one, and the wrong people in power in Pakistan or India could very well do something. No one has used any to start one, and we backed off every time it went in that direction. What holds back Iran other than technology?
If the dangers from owning your own nukes are so serious, why haven't we destroyed the world yet - even with some of the so-called religious fundamentalist whackos that people are so afraid of in the White House?
Honestly, all this fear running around and western democracies - and the Russians - are the ONLY ones who have managed them responsibly. We haven't blown the world up, and the worst are some "near misses" which didn't produce anything. Shoot, we're farther away now from nuclear war between major powers than we have been since before the Cold War.
Point fingers at Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and their ilk. Leave the rest of us out of it. They're the nuclear "powers" to be afraid of, and we should raise defenses against their armament which are overwhelming - not detente.
Four. Then there's "real truth," which is totally objective and possibly not entirely knowable. It depends (but, then again, I believe in objective, absolute truths outside of my experience, hence the faith part). The tricky thing is, what if I'm right? - What does that do to your definitions?
Yeah, no kidding. Poor Quinto has pretty much a ruined career, because EVERY time I see him on screen I'll be thinking, "Can't trust him! That's Sylar! Kill him now or it's gonna get worse!!!"
It's JJ Abrams, which means we get to start out in the middle of the story, backtrack to "where it all began," and finish up with a fun-filled exciting resolution!
MI:III I'm betting was just a rehash of an unused ALIAS script.
Not that he does bad work, it's just a little repetitive after a while.
Except there really isn't an "Obama is a terrorist" campaign outside of some idiotic right-of-center types. McCain hasn't been harping on how he isn't from around here, he's been poorly harping on Obama's economics mostly. Frankly, after the encounter with the plumber the other day, McCain has some PERFECT fodder for getting small businesspeople on his side.
All I'm seeing is the "unpatriotic" banner being waved by the left in America, when they AREN'T asking, "Why are companies leaving America, and why do they have hard-to-touch bank accounts offshore?" Somewhere there's a BAD disconnect - that we could minimize what many banks are going through by doing something that would ENCOURAGE people keeping their money there rather than seeing large companies as something to tax and take from because they somehow "owe" it.
The left NEVER asks what is wrong with their system - they just ask what is wrong with everyone else. We need to ask, "what would it take for you to keep your money in America," rather than proclaiming from the rooftops that they're leaving and should be punished for it.
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"It's the feeling and thinking part that matters" according to what? What is your basis that your life matters at all?
I'm using the context of "human" meaning "human being," which, if I am right, is absolute.
Unless you're wrong, in which "human" has only one meaning which is absolute.
"It may develop into a person..." Does that mean it "may" develop into something else? At what point does it cease to be a "lump of cells?" Where is the line? Why am I not just a "lump of cells" now that just happens to think and feel - are those not just byproducts of my biology in that case?
Except, of course, for DNA, which is human. You and I were human when we were "lumps.." or were we supposed to develop into something else?
Just about all of those studies are rather vague in their definitions, and appear to stretch some things. Here's the problem - a VAST majority of people in this country eat enough, have jobs, and can be educated. Period. There's an EASY formula to follow - graduate high school, don't get pregnant before marriage, and hold a job for two years. You WON'T be poor and you WON'T go hungry. This is a social/motivation/parenting problem, NOT a money problem in America.
Sooooo...where does the money to do all that come from? Is the Indian government providing money for mining, widget-making, and software, or is that coming from private industry which has the freedom to use its own money as it sees fit for investment?
Define "poverty" and "hunger," please, so we know which definitions you're working with.
That's rather...cold. I thought that it was us right-wingers who were supposed to be cold and heartless about people?
I agree with you generally about the hypocrisy of the radical Islamist leadership, but it only takes one or a few within the leadership who is a "true believer." The Iranian mullahs and their president are banging hard on that door.
I'm not really offended, but it comes down for when life starts. Both Biblically and humanistically, I believe that we MUST value unborn life as a society, and not subject it to the whims of "the greater good," which rarely turns out as such. We consider human testing on anything other than volunteers as inhumane. If I consider the unborn as human, what other position am I supposed to take?
You're thinking like a rational westerner, and not a radical Islamist. They have suicide bombers, and don't care about killing their own people - that mentality could easily carry over with nuclear weaponry.
The Iranians, while likely over-exaggerating their capabilities, are not held by the constraints that the rest of the western world uses. I honestly believe that they may have used them by now. I'm almost surprised the Pakistanis never did, but they've had too much internal turmoil to do anything further since gaining capability.
To end it - keep that in mind. Iran appears to have some sort of ambition to start one, and the wrong people in power in Pakistan or India could very well do something. No one has used any to start one, and we backed off every time it went in that direction. What holds back Iran other than technology?
If the dangers from owning your own nukes are so serious, why haven't we destroyed the world yet - even with some of the so-called religious fundamentalist whackos that people are so afraid of in the White House?
Honestly, all this fear running around and western democracies - and the Russians - are the ONLY ones who have managed them responsibly. We haven't blown the world up, and the worst are some "near misses" which didn't produce anything. Shoot, we're farther away now from nuclear war between major powers than we have been since before the Cold War.
Point fingers at Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and their ilk. Leave the rest of us out of it. They're the nuclear "powers" to be afraid of, and we should raise defenses against their armament which are overwhelming - not detente.
Four. Then there's "real truth," which is totally objective and possibly not entirely knowable. It depends (but, then again, I believe in objective, absolute truths outside of my experience, hence the faith part). The tricky thing is, what if I'm right? - What does that do to your definitions?
Sounds like a business opportunity. Did you ever look into it?
No, but you get put in prison for owning one in even some "moderate" Muslim countries.
Yeah, no kidding. Poor Quinto has pretty much a ruined career, because EVERY time I see him on screen I'll be thinking, "Can't trust him! That's Sylar! Kill him now or it's gonna get worse!!!"
It's JJ Abrams, which means we get to start out in the middle of the story, backtrack to "where it all began," and finish up with a fun-filled exciting resolution!
MI:III I'm betting was just a rehash of an unused ALIAS script.
Not that he does bad work, it's just a little repetitive after a while.
Except there really isn't an "Obama is a terrorist" campaign outside of some idiotic right-of-center types. McCain hasn't been harping on how he isn't from around here, he's been poorly harping on Obama's economics mostly. Frankly, after the encounter with the plumber the other day, McCain has some PERFECT fodder for getting small businesspeople on his side.
Meh, cap nothing. Quantity has a quality all its own.
What is this "snow" you speak of. Seriously. I'm from Baton Rouge. It's snowed there ONCE and stuck in the last 25 years. No kidding. Really.
All I'm seeing is the "unpatriotic" banner being waved by the left in America, when they AREN'T asking, "Why are companies leaving America, and why do they have hard-to-touch bank accounts offshore?" Somewhere there's a BAD disconnect - that we could minimize what many banks are going through by doing something that would ENCOURAGE people keeping their money there rather than seeing large companies as something to tax and take from because they somehow "owe" it.
The left NEVER asks what is wrong with their system - they just ask what is wrong with everyone else. We need to ask, "what would it take for you to keep your money in America," rather than proclaiming from the rooftops that they're leaving and should be punished for it.
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby.