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grammar king

Oh ok thanks :) So, just to get this clear, according to Utilitarianism they aren't fundamentally inviolable. Although, it would take something pretty extraordinary and unlikely for one of the human rights we hold (the important ones - even as a human rights obsessive I think much of the UDHR is re...

grammar king

So utilitarianism does hold that we have fundamental - inviolable - human rights? Not natural rights of course, rather 'man-made' but inviolable nonetheless? No, I don't think clayto meant to imply that (although feel free to correct me if you did). Utilitarianism doesn't allow for inviolable right...

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Back when I first started online, I was a bit of a grammar Nazi (I'm now much more of a descriptivist and don't correct spelling or grammar unless it's genuinely difficult to understand). Someone said "who are you, the grammar king?" and it kind of stuck. So I changed my username and I've used varia...

grammar king

Well how do you know it's not a joke? Maybe everyone except you looking at that page has ripped their eyes out... ever think of that?

grammar king

Do people agree? I agree, although I think that sources should be cited where possible. If citing sources were more commonplace outside of professional academia it would improve access to source material for everyone. That said, one of the most frustrating things for me is having a memory of a stud...

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Was anyone else thinking, "well, it is a giant nuclear reactor..." before they opened the thread?

I think that shows how surprising this is.

grammar king

I'll have no trouble going to a ceremony, it's not about me, after all. Carol services I don't mind going to, but they're a bit boring. I recently got invited to the 'alternative Christmas service' at my local baptist church, there's a post on my blog about it, here.

grammar king

I've been thinking about this recently. For a while I had a thing for a girl at uni. The problem was, she's a very active member of the Christian Union. That's how I met her in fact, she (among many many others) kind of made it her personal mission to convert me (didn't work, don't worry). I had ple...

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I'm sure I was in a thread where someone came out with that almost word for word. Would've been a year or so ago now... Scary stuff.

grammar king

Maybe I'm just being a bit left here, but I've always thought charity was like giving an aspirin to someone with cancer. It keeps the system ticking over, makes people in developed countries feel like they're doing something when in reality many of the consumer decisions they make on a day to day ba...

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Maybe I was a bit forward with the accusation of a straw man, but I think you're still missing my point. I acknowledge that supposedly sin is caused by the Fall, but whether it's original sin or just everyday sin from which Jesus saves us is hardly central to Christianity. If you're taking Genesis a...

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Darwinian evolution goes a step beyond making the Christian God superfluous by demonstrating that humans were not created directly by God in the Garden of Eden. This means that the story of the apple and the serpent is not literal, which means that the concept of "Original Sin" is baseless. This me...

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It's on now, it looks crap.

Btw, has anyone met anyone who genuinely does believe Darwinism proves God doesn't exist? Of course is doesn't, it just makes belief in God superfluous and arbitrary. The whole programme is dealing with a straw man.

grammar king

If it was purely my duty to skepticism vs my duty to my family I'd take the job. So the ghosthunting, for example. But selling homeopathic remedies and working against vaccines puts lives at risk. I wouldn't take such jobs. Or I'd take them, do them ludicrously badly, all the while looking for my ne...

grammar king

It depends on the context, I think. I only know one person who cites his sources during a conversation in person, and he's got Asperger's. If you're just throwing issues up surrounding a case and not discussing it in depth, then you don't really need to cite sources. However, during serious discours...

grammar king

Maybe as (still technically) a Catholic living within his Archdiocese, I should send this Stephen Robson prat a letter.

grammar king

Ooh bollocks it begins with an L. I'm sure I've included this in an article before, I'll look it up.

Libet.

grammar king

It's shocking how they had to cut down the wording so much to even get it online.

grammar king

Edinburgh has had interfaith week for ages, in fact I think the Edinburgh Interfaith Association is a big benificiary of the government's funding groups to tackle extremism, getting something like £200,000 a year IIRC. As part of the humanist society at the UoE, I tend to get involved in interfaith ...

grammar king

They do advertise it a lot. I reckon they came up with it and now sell it to Big Pharma to keep us all sick and buying pills. How stupid of us.

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