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(...) Maybe I should have said get a clue, but that seemed rude. He has hinted to you (by his silence) (end even directly stated it, for that matter) that he isn't going to be baited into further justifying his assertion that you're a liar. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.
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(...) *sigh* Still no reading comprehension. You got all the apology you're going to get. However, if it will make you shut up, here's an example of a lie: "the LP is a White Man's Club" If you had retracted that statement after it was shown to be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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(...) Too early to tell for sure but we as a species have in part stopped evolving because we have shut down most of the selection factors (disease, famine, the birth defect effect on reproduction) As for the survival of the race, we have to get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: I can't stand not to see my name in lights (was: Ok, show me where I have lied? Or apologise.)
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(...) hint (INDIRECT STATEMENT) noun [C] a statement or action which expresses indirectly what a person thinks or wants and which allows another person to take no notice of it without causing offence So what is being hinted at? Is he hinting he (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Take the hint. Chris (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Oddball thoughts (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) horror (...) Humanity will blossom into many other things that will spread across the universe. It doesn't particularly matter if humanity as we see it now continues. I don't think that bombing Japan enabled the continuation of humanity (at (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) *Sigh* Still no answer. Scott A (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Tangents (was: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?)
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(...) morality (...) Lets take it back to another example (and no, it's not an analogy). If an escaped murderer breaks into my house, ties up my family and threatens to kill them, but I manage to evade him & get to where my gun is. What should I do? (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Me either! Wow, cool--LUGNET is the apex of evolution! :D (...) *HAHAHA* "Chimpity?" I love it! Oh, yeah, forgot the little ™ (Alt+0665 to make the spiffy extended-char trademark symbol) But, as a matter of point, evolution didn't turn chimps (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) technique (...) When? No-one told me... (...) I don't totally agree. Evolution turned chimps into humans. We definitely don't consider them "humanity" though they may well consider us "chimpity"(tm). At some point, humans will likely evolve (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: - The Osama Bin Ladin Song - VERY FUNNY!!!! ; )P
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(...) We don't want to fight, But by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men, And got the money too. We've fought the Bear before, And while we're Britons true, The Russians [pr.:"Rooshins"] shall not have Constantinople. -G. W. Hall (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Er, yes, there is. Read Dave's statement, to which you replied "Yes," again. You say, thus, that they *are* morally equivalent. The term isn't the problem (it hasn't been for most of the .debaters), it's the semantic baggage that goes with a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How do you figure? In part it depends on your definition of "we". Humanity has "stopped evolution" recently, and is poised to "take control of evolution" with genetic engineering of ourselves. I say "we" are what we make ourselves into, but (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nah, just an oddball thought. People seemed to be considering "what if"s, and that was my oddball "what if" taken to extremes 8?) (...) We'd have to come up with some sort of practical interstellar travel technique first - the solar system's (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Was that a serious question? What are the alternative values to weigh against? I see humanity as good for millions of years, actually. We may actually last all the way to the heat death of the universe, we're pretty clever. (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here's another oddball thought: It's likely humanity will eventually cease to exist at some time in the future, anyway, so was it worth imparting such horror on the Japanese population, just to keep humanity going a bit longer? ROSCO (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As an aside, I don't think I actually said that. I think they're all SUSPECT but some of them may well be correct. Especially the ones that have better data collection behind them. The statistic that started this strikes me as being VERY hard (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True, true. Which is why some people say "democracy is the worst system of government ever invented, except for all the rest", or words to that effect. Me, I think there are even LESS good unfettered democracies than there are good dictators. (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, that's easy to say at this remove but second guessing is easy. I drew different conclusions from the same data. (...) Again, I drew totally different conclusions from the same data. (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Put three libertarians together in a room and they won't be able to agree where to go for lunch...
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(...) But there are so few good dictators ... :wq Horst (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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