I think you have that backwards. When you go further back in history you find that marriage didn't involve religion (or love for that matter) at all. It was a means to bind families together to gain and maintain power and to carry on the name.
Words are just tools. Nothing more. Their...
I have 3 points: 2 specific, 1 general.
1. The "argument from tradition" that says marriage is "this" therefore it should remain "this" is just absurd, and is not an argument at all.
2. The "slippery slope" argument is arbitrary at best. The idea that "allowing" two consenting male adults to...
Yeah well this is what your "states rights" neo-confederate garbage gets you. If you are one of the people who think that "states" have the "right" to decide who can marry or whether the so-called "rights" of an embryo supersede the rights of the adult person in whom it resides, then you really...
As far as the Syrians go, it is issues like this that make concern for politics and pursuit of the right philosophy so important. These people have only themselves to blame. It is no different here. We have the likes of Obama, Boehner, Pelosi and McConnell running our country, and the damage...
This is an overloaded bill that is counting on the wobbly, impotent Republicans in the house to compromise.
In the end the Dumb-o-crats will get most of what they want.
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand
Of course the right is dead wrong on gay marriage so in this case it would be a good thing.
Did you read the entire article?
It addresses your point fairly well.
The very idea that it is a full human life at conception with all of the rights of an adult human being completely drops the context of what "human life" means, what defines a "right", and the physical/metaphysical...
I have better things to do with my money than give it away to strangers who have failed to take care of themselves. I use it to take care of myself and my family.
I fail to see the virtue in helping out random strangers. If you really insist on giving your money away, why don't you give it to...
America's founders didn't create the rights in the constitution, they recognized and enumerated them. In principle, it contradicts the very meaning of a right to suggest that the government can put conditions on them on a whim.
Frankly, the idea that we SHOULD treat people this way is...
First of all, they aren't American rights they are human rights. When a free country recognizes and protects human rights (properly speaking anyway) it should protect the rights of all people within its borders, not just certain special people. Everyone. THAT is (or was) the unique beauty of...
So you're saying that it's wrong to buy stuff you don't want for yourself and sell it for a profit?
Sounds an awful lot like an awful lot of businesses…
What exactly is a "normal" price? Price is whatever the consumer is willing to pay, period. That's how it works when the market is stable and the prices are "normal", and that's how it works when supply or demand cause sharp upswings or downswings. Perhaps it is equally unfair when a glut in...
All I have to add is this: With regard to whether or not rights are "absolute rights", yes they are. The problem is that the word "contextually" is missing from that phrase.
Rights are absolute in the context that their exercise cannot infringe upon others' rights. In the cases of the "limits"...