Recent content by Unwardil

Given that in canadian law, the courts have never ruled to deny those rights, I might. I'd feel icky about it, but then, even our conservatives aren't crazy enough to try it in this country. We don't have the same kind of right wing religious lobbyists here that make that kind of thing a...

Trouble with a multi party system is that it really ends up being a De-facto 2 party system, generally between the most extreme right wing party and the centerist party and in that situation, the same logic applies. If you don't vote for us, you're helping the other major party. That's how it...

Bad wording on my part. I meant that the suicide bombers are not suicide bombing in retaliation to Israel's blunt force use of military power, they are doing it in retaliation for Israel's continued existence as a state. The Israeli government and military would be lax in it's duty to their...

See, no, Israel has to do SOMETHING about the fact that there are people strapping bombs to their chest and blowing themselves up in public places. This would happen whether or not Israel retaliates for it. You see, while individual suicide bombers may be influenced by a sense of hopelessness...

Well, yes, I think while hind sight is 20/20 I think foresight could have actually been employed back in the day to very accurately predict what would happen there. I think the only real surprise from a historical perspective, and a glad one at that, is that Israel is actually still around today.

The truth of the whole matter is the formation of the state of Israel was a stupendous Geo-political mistake of astronomical proportions and should never have been done in the first place. After WW 2, the jewish people could have been given any plot of land anywhere in the world practically and...

Have to agree with Dogma on this one. The people Israel are fighting want to kill Israeli's and are successful at it when left to their own devices. That's not a problem you can simply ignore. I don't know what magic you think guided missiles run on but when you fire them they cause a lot of...

Generally speaking, I think more Genetically modified is more better. Think about it rationally. Species that evolve naturally are typically doing so in competition with each other. It is not in a food's best interest to be either nutritious or delicious to humans, unless it is one of those...

Well, you're definitely not a theist. A theist wouldn't say "if there is a creator' for a start. If you're absolutely convinced of some kind of entity being involved in the starting up of the universe, that would put you in the Deist camp. Personally, I've never seen the point in believing in...

Well on the subject of hallucinations... Yes, people with similar brain chemistry are apt to experience the same hallucinations, just like people with similar social values are apt to vote for the same political party. Conspiracy theorists all come up with basically the same conspiracy...

My own personal opinion here on the direction space flight should be headed (and it is, a little bit, doing this... finally) Trying to find life on other planets is dandy and all, that would be neat in the same way that climbing Everest would be neat to do some day or sky diving or any number...

What I think would be the most difficult to trace in the fossil record is if, say, there were several origin point of life on earth more or less simultaneous but separated and isolated. When they met, however, it is likely that only 1 would be the dominant one eventually wiping all the others...

I don't like dancing, so that's out.

What part of omnipotence are Christians uncomprehending of? Every time they say their god couldn't do something they hammer another nail into his coffin. The reason the time travelers couldn't explain computers to the confederates is because they were not omnipotent/omniscient/omnibenevolent...

Well your proposition automatically precludes the possibility that we eliminate a species either purposefully or accidentally that we depend on for survival. But even so, that's what I like to think of as an engineering problem. We don't need bee directly, the plants we grow for food need...