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1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-19 20:27:21


[REGL] Pooh 
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@knyte, the only reason you're calling it fake is because I've proved with logical reasons that you cannot refute, that you gave bad answers to my questions.

I paid out to Hostile because he made a good statement that was logically sufficient.

I pointed out that I paid Hostile to prove that this was a real question and that you were wrong.

I pointed out that I have a good job, with a requirement to be a bit smart to hold said job, to prove that you were wrong again.

Would you like to keep going on this crappier-than-Facebook venue, or have you had enough?

Also, I couldn't tell if those were supposed to be insults to me and Fizzer, or were you just 'debating' again? (FYI, there's no sarcasm font here, is there?)

You've sufficiently proven yourself unworthy of further response. 3 strikes, you're out.

Which is too bad. I would have loved to taken you up on your pro-abortion pro-extinction position. I'm SURE it would have been riveting.

(FOUND THE SARCASM FONT!!!!)

Edited 4/19/2018 20:29:30
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-19 22:52:37


l4v.r0v 
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This is actually hilariously ironic. You get called out on not doing this sincerely so you decide to dump $15 on Hostile (congrats). Plus you get to play the I'm-not-an-idiot-I-make-money card. Pretty smart move, right?

Except for this part:
I couldn't figure out how to get him 1000 coins


Nothing says serious intent like promising a prize that can't be given and then scrambling for an alternative. Sure made me eat crow there.

Don't forget to not respond to this, btw. This is the second or third time you've told me you'll be ignoring all future responses from me, and you sure seem like someone who's honest about his intentions. Plus a man of your intellect and smart-person income probably doesn't have time for this nonsense. :)
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-20 02:27:27


Padraig
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[REGL] Pooh,

There is a tradition in the West which dates back at least to the time of Augustine of Hippo, that there are times when a kingdom or civil government should tolerate acts which are morally wrong, because not doing so would bring about some greater evil. This argument was made explicit by the theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas,

Now human law is framed for a number of human beings, the majority of whom are not perfect in virtue. Wherefore human laws do not forbid all vices, from which the virtuous abstain, but only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to abstain; and chiefly those that are to the hurt of others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be maintained: thus human law prohibits murder, theft and such like.

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/2096.htm#article2

In the context of the question of whether it was proper to tolerate the practice of Judaism, which Thomas held to be proper, he famously quotes Augustine's assertion regarding prostitution. Augustine says (De Ordine ii, 4): "If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust."

I bring this up because this very argument was used by the former Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo. It should be noted that in doing so he was contradicting the statements of Catholic teaching on the subject of abortion and infanticide dating back at least to the second century. Nonetheless he did make this argument. It might grant his position more substance to note that it is not uncommon for those who hold something like the pro-life view to make an exception for women who have been raped, or in cases of incest. The argument in that case would be that, by forcing a women who had become pregnant because of rape to carry the child to term, one would be further depriving her of the freedom and autonomy which aught to be a birth rite for all people.

There are other situations where this line of reasoning is more compelling, as in the establishment of needle exchange facilities for those who use illegal drugs. By giving clean needles to the users of illegal drugs their unlawful acts are being encouraged, but at the same time the spread of deadly diseases is being thwarted. Mike Pence, at one time rejected the idea that needle exchange programs were good policy, until a massive outbreak of H.I.V. cases gave him cause to rethink his position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/mike-pence-needle-exchanges-indiana.html

Edited 4/20/2018 02:28:57
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-20 02:27:28


Wulfhere
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Hey man, I actually had the best answer. Leftists don't want to go around aborting black babies. The majority of white people don't believe their arguments so they have to exploit the will to plunder and the will to conquer of non whites. They want abortions (which disproportionately affect non whites) to be rare so that population can grow in size and win elections for the left.

Edited 4/20/2018 07:34:20
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-20 02:30:00


Wulfhere
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Knyte is upset that his title as most pretentious person on the forum has been challenged by pooh
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-04-20 11:00:17


Belgian Gentleman
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I agree with abortion. /endargument
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-05-03 13:17:46


DesertFox
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Abortion...the only thing I could think off about it is this sad reality from my country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770

Also this thing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZJ-IV8Et0 (it's worth watching)
1000 Coin Prize for first correct answer: 2018-05-03 23:23:18


sound_of_silence
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more babies, more poor people, more manpower, more consumption, more money
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