I'm sorry, but why? I personally don't want to live in a judgement free world (as if it were desirable or even possible). I want people of differing opinions to sort out and understand their own judgements and be able to explain their moral/ethical/political/economic reasoning to others. Seriously, fuck the idea that…

There are over 100,000 kids in the foster care system in the US waiting to be adopted. I hardly feel like that's "very few children."

I have mixed feelings. I was adopted at birth, so I am mostly very pro-adoption. That said I realize why many gay couples do surrogacy.....I have a relative who is an adoption lawyer, and he always had a fear that some homophobic judge would rule in favor of the bio parents if the bio-parents changed their mind or…

Same. You are already dropping a shit ton of money for those procedures, so why not take the money and adopt a child that is already here? Trust that your genes are not that fucking special that the world would collapse if you didn't have a biological kid.

I feel like in general, if you become a surrogate it is best to be prepared to honour the parents' wishes should they want to abort due to a catastrophic birth defect.

Can you explain the bombing of the kids playing soccer on the beach? Can you explain this? I'm not looking just at the statistics in purely abstract terms. I'm looking at the years-long imprisonment of an ethnically and religiously different population by a much stronger military power, and the dire consequences they…

When people say things like "well both sides are at fault" or "well it's really a complicated situation" they are implicitly supporting the horrific acts of the IDF, they just don't want to come out and say it. That or they are woefully uninformed.

This. This. This.

Because Hamas is the one that has the actual right to defend itself. Contrary to popular belief, Hamas IS the elected governmental body of Gaza, and has the duty to stand up for the people of Gaza, who have been under a crippling Israeli siege since 2006, making the country, according to the WHO, unlivable by the year…

I don't need to read or write a thesis on the issue to know that killing children is wrong and so is an illegal occupation.

While I think this post is probably well-intentioned, the idea that this conflict is "too complicated" for people to understand, or "too sensitive" for anyone but a scholar or middle east journalist to comment is really problematic and part of the silencing tactic on this issue in US. The fact is, as Americans, we are…

Since when does being famous mean you give up freedom of speech?

The law is complete a red herring in this instance. Dawkins wasn't talking about the law, but instead trying to illustrate basic logic using a stupidly controversial example. Determining the severity of a crime to determine punishment is one thing. Determining the severity of a crime in order tell victims of it…

He tends to be crass and annoys more people than he convinces. That said, every crime has varying degrees, so I can see his point.
If I said: second degree murder is bad, first degree murder is worse. That is not an endorsement of second degree murder. Is that incorrect?

He is brilliant, he also went to Gaza to report about how so many innocent children are being killed and he just looked so defeated and heartbroken.

Are we seriously going to make this about being "SEX POSITIVE" instead of about the muder of Palestinian women and children and how this is blatantly sexualizing the grossness of war? Now watch people come on here and try to defend how these women aren't actually objectifying themselves because "choice" while 3.1…

I'm not shaming them, I'm asking why they're doing it for this particular cause. The same way I asked friends how putting a sock on their dick and posting it to the internet would help fight cancer. I'm not saying don't do it; I'm asking how it contributes.

It is disgusting that Canada and the US government supports what IDF is doing (here in the UK David Cameron has supported Israel but the majority of his party have criticized him and UK Parliament have said that Israel is committing war crimes). I am glad that here in the UK we news channels like channel 4 that call…

I'm surprised people pay to do CrossFit. It is open source and you can find all the work outs online. Coupled with the fact you can do pretty much any CrossFit regimen in your backyard or your local gym makes me wonder how the hell these people make money.