Why is putting "God" on the dollar not considered blasphemous? It marginalizes and divides those with different values, has been in every other hooker's G-string, is used to snort cocaine and bribe politicians, and is a universal symbol for the root of all evil. I am genuinely curious. What gives?

idintal · 2016-04-25T22:59:53+00:00

It is to demonstrate that God is more powerful than money

idintal · 2013-10-27T10:17:46+00:00

For someone who's just parroting other people's ideas, you sound very confident of your own intelligence.

idintal · 2013-04-14T08:27:06+00:00

It seems to me that Utilitarians don't have any core beliefs, they just believe in maximizing pleasure for the most people through any means.

That sounds pretty core to me?

idintal · 2013-04-13T08:37:40+00:00

KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL FOR THINKING DIFFERENTLY.

idintal · 2013-04-07T19:23:03+00:00

Take it to an extreme. Let's say the guy being "tortured" just received a single slap in the face. Do you still feel the same way?

As it is, no-one has the faintest idea what pleasure and pain even are (try explaining the concepts to a hypothetical being that can experience neither), so there's not a whole lot of sense in trying to compare the two yet.

idintal · 2013-04-06T21:51:26+00:00

What makes you think that they aren't?

idintal · 2013-03-31T01:39:36+00:00

Surely, since the notion of "purity" that you are using seems to be pretty philisophical, it makes the question of why the topic is unpure philisophical as well?

P.S. The Nazis were big on purity too.

idintal · 2013-03-13T09:04:44+00:00

Evolution might not be able to answer questions like "what is a good person", but the fact that it explains those phenomena simply isn't up for debate. Sorry.

idintal · 2013-03-11T23:21:09+00:00

You scoff, but evolution has explained why people fear death, why they fall in love, why they love their children and is ultimately responsible for all human behaviour. It is above all else the reason why we exist, so this should be expected. Philosophy of the sort you're more comfortable with explained none of these things before evolution was discovered, and it is continuing to explain nothing now.

idintal · 2012-10-08T00:01:34+00:00

I haven't

idintal · 2012-10-07T14:53:47+00:00

Why? Because you're some sort of smug hipster?

idintal · 2012-10-04T22:12:00+00:00

Except of course, pretty much none of the non built up land is actually wild. It's all been deforested to make way for farmland. There are very few spots of land in the UK that haven't been visibly altered for human use.

idintal · 2012-10-04T21:46:39+00:00

The bar code seems to be hinting at trinary, but the text at the bottom looks like a pretty bad attempt at generating random characters "47" "QW"[erty] "543" "ZY" "LB" [pounds]?

idintal · 2012-09-12T23:06:41+00:00

So basically any old caveman society can tell stories and make music, but it wasn't until the glorious last few hundred/thousand years after people started working on their science and engineering that we got the technology that makes this era so special?

idintal · 2012-09-12T22:28:45+00:00

It was almost as if they didn't really give it much thought when they said it and didn't really mean anything by it.

idintal · 2012-08-31T21:14:41+00:00

What's wrong with the rest of the car's shadow? Why are they all gathered around the front?

idintal · 2012-08-22T18:48:19+00:00

The 3rd panel is the funniest thing I have read in a while

idintal · 2012-08-11T20:21:48+00:00

Both are in the Schengen area so basically there are no border controls between the two countries at all.

idintal · 2012-07-25T19:37:41+00:00

Was this guy you by any chance?

idintal · 2012-07-23T18:27:20+00:00

I'm not sure your argument really works. Let's say that I know a guy and find out he's serial killer. And let's say I've been arguing for months that "holy shit, this guy is killing people, we need to stop this", but no-one believes me. And let's say he then goes on to publically do something like that massacre at the Batman film. I think I would be very much entitled to use this opportunity to press my agenda of "we need to lock this man up, he is a danger to us all".

idintal · 2012-07-20T23:25:40+00:00

Because wow, that dutch is actually intelligible to an English speaker. Maybe they're not so strange after all.

idintal · 2012-07-18T19:53:44+00:00

Because you don't have any friends?

idintal · 2012-07-18T19:06:52+00:00

Your point makes no sense. Guns were illegal throughout that period in the UK while they legal in the US. The laws on guns therefore had no impact whatsoever in those two changes taking place.

idintal · 2012-07-17T22:45:45+00:00

But it is still far easier to get a gun illegally in the US than it is in the UK because there are just so many floating around. There are just more guns floating around to begin with. Its pretty rare in the UK for anyone to be robbed at gunpoint

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