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Humanity has survived some pretty serious crises. After two major world wars it has gone for 77 years without such a world wide conflict. After a lengthy Cold War and the nuclear arms race that could easily have destroyed the whole world, calmer minds prevailed and such an end seems far less probab...

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Thu Jul 14, 2022 8:00 pm

Humanity has survived some pretty serious crises.

There is some thought that the crisis that almost caused our extinction also resulted in humans having bigger brains.

I'm not sure this would work, though. I think some groups are so intractably hateful against each other that they would still seek opportunities to marginalize and take unfair and sometimes even deadly advantage over others, even if faced by a common enemy determined to destroy all of us. I read th...

Circumcision is genital mutilation and it's obviously child sexual abuse. I would think almost everyone here would agree with you for female circumcision. Male circumcision has been so ingrained into western culture and religion that it is accepted as normal. I do wonder whether it should be though.

Clayton didn't merely say there was a skeleton buried with the plates; he said there was a spectacular skeleton buried with the plates--one nine feet tall. Even had there been a skeleton buried with the plates, this would have been an extraordinary find to say the least. Clayton cannot have been ac...

The context of my assertion/question was policies and potential laws that allow teachers to secretly counsel children on very sensitive issues, and in this specific case puberty blockers and even possible sex changes. I never discussed a general what a teacher or counselor can discuss in privacy. D...

Your wrote this a few posts back…you are changing your position UMM No. This is the only example you have given of apples and oranges. One is talking about counselors like at school or in a religion and about what they can keep in confidence and the other is about a child getting health advice with...

In the interest of fairness, you are correct about the 8 year old. I also support your position regarding teachers counseling children on these issues without parental knowledge. Teachers are not qualified to do so. It is beyond the scope of their education and credentials as I know them to be. I s...

Yes 8 year olds and up in consultations with medical experts and parents can make rational decisions regarding their health. 100% disagree. 8-year-olds are not rational actors, are highly suggestible, and undisciplined in virtually every sense of the word. in my opinion, the can’t even begin to com...

Yes 8 year olds and up in consultations with medical experts and parents can make rational decisions regarding their health. Part I've bolded. Why do you think that, Themis? I see kids as being able to have some say in their life and health, and while infants obviously have no say, some say should ...