"So are the designers who make bad video games and act pompous about it"

Bioware really ought to just kill their forum IMO. If they want feedback they can use an e-mail address, but the environment of vitriol a forum like that fosters just builds the negativity up.

"Everyone knows and expect that 25-35 year olds can and will have kids,"

That's why we call you Stannis the Mannis.

I would just as soon not have my religion invaded by a bunch of White hipsters. Go revive your own cultural traditions! We've got enough internal shit to deal with.

You're absolutely right, which is where I think all the "privilege" posts are coming from here.

Do you honestly believe that unpaid internships are unpaid because it's women doing them? That's not how it works. Companies recruit for unpaid internships because it's free labor (even if it is *technically* illegal in many places to displace paid employees with them it's not really well enforced.)

The most "far-out" claim being made here is your claim that foeticide cannot, under any circumstances, be defined as a form of murder. The fact that you can't wrap your head around how someone can interpret the former as the latter is mostly just you being obtuse. It's *not* that much of a stretch given some starting…

1. a.) Except the one I was responding to didn't. Your problem is that you seem to think you're arguing against some gaggle of people rather than refuting an idea.

Changing your own oil is easy. Disposing of the oil in an environmentally safe place is kind of a pain in the ass.

Might be easier to just wash your hands.

1.) Oh. Should I now consult the dictionary to resolve the definition of "people?" The whole abortion debate centers around the personhood of the fetus. So saying it's not "people" is begging the question.

*Consistent.

There is a substantial price difference between a computer that's good for gaming and a computer that you use for everything else. A gaming computer will also have serious trade-offs.

Reading comprehension seems to be a challenge for you. I said definitions evolve and your trying to use a dictionary definition to prove your point isn't actually proving anything for the reasons I cited. Both because dictionaries are pretty shitty sources to settle ethical arguments and because even the dictionary…

I didn't pull rank with anything. I said dictionaries don't settle arguments in a philosophy discussion. I don't see how you took that to mean you couldn't cut it as a philosopher. Only now that you seem to have dug in your heels on the topic, I have serious doubts as to whether you can cut it as a philosopher.

You didn't explain diddly and you're mixing up the point. Philosophers talk a lot about definitions because it's acknowledged that language is fuzzy and the words we're using don't always line up perfectly with the concepts we're trying to address. This is why lawyer have a separate dictionary, because the law…

I'd argue that the reason STEM fields are male dominated is precisely because they offer the most direct and unambiguous path to steady and well-paid employment. I had to go against so much family pressure to shun medicine and engineering and opt for the humanities. None of the female members of my family faced any…

I think the social pressure to make money also influences peoples' willingness to "settle" though. Think of it this way, as a man I've had the message beaten into my head from a very young age that the majority of my value to society and to my family revolves around a role as bread-winner. I'm taught that I don't get…

Isn't there some selection bias here?