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Agreed. It would really depend on the benefits (and to what extent the problems can be mitigated, but mitigating problems is itself an effort that needs to be worth it) but I can't imagine many benefits that would outweigh the ethical and social issues.

I disagree that I assumed any such thing. I said that the two copies and the single spouse could work things out, I didn't say it would be easy or always end well for all concerned. There is a very wide gap between "sanguine" and "MUST KILL IT'S THE ONLY SOLUTION". I also disagree that "knowing...

Please quote one thing I said that missed that point, because nothing did that I can tell. Everything I said is about that point. I know it's his job and wife in his mind, that's why it is best considered our job and wife, and the question becomes one of sharing/allocating/distributing. And if...

Re: Evolution of Man Began in Eastern Mediterranean, Not Afr Amazing ! I learned something pretty cool today. Thank you ! :) (clearly should have looked more closely when watching those tectonic plate videos...)

Re: Evolution of Man Began in Eastern Mediterranean, Not Afr This is bizarre, I could have sworn I replied to this... anyway... Agreed. Having said that the New Scientist quotes one of the critics as saying the author of the paper also claims apes originated in Europe; if they are thought to...

I call the police or whatever authorities are relevant to the question, and an arrangement where both myself and my copy are treated as fairly as is possible given the situation is arrived at. "Hopping in the sack" situations can be resolved through discussions between my copy, my wife and I...

Re: Evolution of Man Began in Eastern Mediterranean, Not Afr I'm pretty sure that the evidence for out-of-Africa is strong enough at this point (not just paleontological but genetic as well) that one fossil jawbone isn't enough to overturn it. I'm also curious as to what the actual implications...

But why assume that would happen in a civilization that could produce such perfect copies? Why wouldn't both copies be treated as equivalent instances of the original, with equal claims to their life, possessions and relations (and any conflicts managed by an appropriately fair-minded legal...

He was a prominent blogger on ScienceBlogs, "prominent" as in I'd never heard of him but when he left everybody talked about it (he was also one of a series of defections from that network in 2010 around the Pepsigate scandal, which IIRC was something about ads masquerading as real content or...

That last video though... Great video, but that guy really wants Creationists to quote-mine him doesn't he :p

This is utterly insane!! I am so glad I still occasionally check out LoR (usually to find references to abiogenesis research that I keep forgetting how to Google but know were referenced here) because I'm not sure when I would have run into this otherwise! It is so incredible that the ribosome...

Ah, I thought this was all very familiar... For years now my favorite article on abiogenesis has been this one : http://journalofcosmology.com/Abiogenesis107.html It was the first where I wasn't "sure, could be" but "oh wow that makes sense". Its thermodynamics-based approach also seemed...

I'm not sure what you mean by "this requires life to already exist and then evolve". I'm guessing that this guy is talking about a metabolism-first hypothesis. So it isn't that life took advantage of those proton gradients, but that those proton gradients led to the appearance of life...

Re: Real medicine of which we know that it works but not how To turn the OP's question on its head, is there any medication (or class of medication) the mechanism of which we do completely understand ? Obviously the wiggle factor is "completely"; I assume we don't understand the body so well...

Nope. As you can see in the rest of my post I think men's rights have plenty of merits, in fact I explicitly mentioned one men's right issue as one I thought had merit, and complimented a man who tried to do something about it. What I compared to white supremacists was “Men's Rights Activists”...

Re: Real medicine of which we know that it works but not how To further illustrate borrofburi and Inferno's replies, I was looking up paracetamol earlier for completely unrelated reasons, and what do you know according to Wikipedia "the mechanism of action of paracetamol is not completely...

That was some very bad reading comprehension. If you care to address any specific thing I said or can build a coherent argument why you disagree with the whole you're welcome to do so. An incorrect "shorter" is cute but doesn't bring much beyond that.

Speaking about men's problems and being a men's rights activist are two different things. There are some abstract reasons to say this I'll try to explain, but the actual concrete reason is that “men's rights activist” is an actual term used by actual people belonging to actual organizations, and...

You can't "truly prove" a view to be wrong, but do you need to ? You can't "truly prove" the sun will come up in the east tomorrow either, yet nobody has ever gone wrong thinking it would.

I don't think it's selfish to want a girlfriend for the hugs and company; that's a big part of what that kind of relationship is for, otherwise you can simply be friends, no ? I don't know if I'd even completely agree with Aught3's advice of attending to their wants first and making sure they...