Whenever I'm confused about whether something is about race or not, I check Fox News. If Fox is saying that something isn't about race, then there's a 99% chance that it is about race.*

I'm following the story from Europe and there is such a disconnect between the view of events here and what I see Americans posting on Facebook and Twitter.

Good.

It's suddenly making me sad to look at this chocolate art installation and/or throwaway party centrepiece and think of that video of cocoa farmers on the Ivory Coast tasting chocolate for the first time in their lives.

But but but...it will melt, right? Or grow mold? Is this something people will actually buy and install? Or will the chocolate tub be a one-time-dodgy-party centrepiece that you that you then bury in your back garden? Is there an air-tight clear resin coating over the chocolate that will prevent it from spoiling,…

The EU is pretty big (pop. 500 mil.) and is not monocultural. My country isn't anywhere near as wealthy as the USA, but we still have better access to healthcare.

Wow. All of these questions are out-of-line. You need a time out.

Wow. You're still missing the point. It doesn't matter whether or not it is possible to parse the exact moment a foetus attains sentience because we do know when a foetus has reached the point where it has zero chance of ever becoming a person. And when a foetus has developed and failed to develop a brain, it has…

No. Seriously. You can split hairs over the exact moment a foetus becomes sentient if you must, but you can't argue that something that lacks a brain is a person.

Jewel really annoyed me until she started (went back to?) playing country music. I'm not normally a country music fan, but her stuff was good.

I already said that you can project feelings onto anything you like. Believe that the use of a mushroom in a soup is a tragedy if you must. But don't talk down to me about "fundamental definitions" if you're going to insist that a foetus without a brain is a person in a conversation about abortion when you know that I…

I asked for clarification. You were the person who said the abortion of a foetus with no brain is a tragedy "even by the strictest definitions of the term," so if you don't want to argue about "fundamental definitions," you should probably rethink the way you enter these conversations.

Update: Someone in another thread is telling me that a foetus with no brain is a person. A baseline level of science education would nip that kind of belief in the bud. So I guess that proves your point that removing the church from education and bolstering the sciences would create a huge cultural change.

Hang on a second. I just want to make sure I've got this correct. You think that a foetus that has no brain is a person?

It's really up to the pregnant woman to decide for herself if it's tragic or not. Not all women feel that way.

You won't ever stop abortions from happening and that's Ok because there's no need to look at abortion as any more moral or immoral than any other medical procedure. Many women think that abortion is tragic and say they'd never have one. They get pregnant and are excited at the prospect of becoming mothers. Then they…

Yeah, because we live in a very remote area, my child has no choice but to attend a catholic school. There's only one Educate Together school in the county and it's an hour away. I've had take Bear Junior's science education into my own hands. Between me and the Discovery Channel, I'm hoping to outweigh the religious…

I'm not sure about that, but it's highly unlikely that the child would be permanently removed. Because of Ireland's history with forced adoptions, it's much more difficult to put a child up for adoption in Ireland if the parents don't agree to it. As far as the mother being forced to take care of the baby, if the baby…

I'm baffled by it on a daily basis. I know ordinary, rural working class people with not much education (the church's target audience) who have figured it out and who will rant against what the church has done to them and refuse to attend. But then I also know people who should know better who believe in creationism…

Anything after 30 weeks is statistically in your favour. 25 weeks is pushing it, but if they were also forcing the mother to take steroids (a likely scenario since they knew the c-section was coming), then there's a fighting chance the lungs would be developed enough and maybe it's even possible that the baby won't…