“...civilized or uncivilized warfare.” A delusional dichotomy for those who are too blinded by ideology, or see to lose too much profit if they admit that all wars are barbaric, and that is why they should not happen.

The fact that you use the term “immoral” to describe what amounts to a civil technicality discredits your position. You probably use the term to describe anything else you don’t like as well. Words; they mean things.

Really? So i guess it is none of my business if someone is beating their child daily, starving them, depriving them of an education or keeping them locked in the basement?

You're taking the deliberate hyperbole as a literal statement. I'm simply saying the stakes are much higher and very different than for a 1st term abortion.

I fail to see the correlation. We have legal abortion precisely because an embryo is not considered a person in regions that have such laws. Terminating a pregnancy is considered a medical procedure, as opposed to tampering with the quality of life of the future person that embryo could become. Simply no existing is…

As a biologist who works in the biotech field, I have severe reservations with germline engineering for one major reason. It requires the experimentation on humans who are unable to give consent.

I love it when people use absolute statements to describe things that are a matter of subjective taste. Especially when describing how the makers of a movie "screwed up" even though more than half of those who viewed the movie enjoyed it. I've watched the film several times, myself, and enjoyed it each time. Could it…

That deafening silence you hear is the number of people in Boston who give two shits what you think of their city.

Has it ever been very easy to make a living writing genre fiction? Almost every author in history that I have read up on was either independently wealthy, had a day job or struggled with money their whole life and then died penniless. Sure, writers that make money like Stephen King exist, but I never got the…

Hmm, I was thinking of the frame of the swing set being parallel , thus the swings are perpendicular to the windows. ;)

Is it just me, or is the idea of an indoor playground having the swing set parallel to a big set of windows just a bad idea?

Well, at least at that point, syphilis is the least of your problems.

Maybe we need to give anti-vaxers electric shocks?

It is a sad, and somewhat meta, commentary on the point of this article that when I saw the description of the series on Netflix, the main character was described as an "ice queen". Way to show respect for the female lead, Netflix.

You have as much chance of convincing anyone who is still a climate change denier with "proof" as you do of convincing a Flat Earther that the world is round.

Your point is nonsensical unless you are talking about people who only take oppositional stance to the Pope for the sake of doing so. In which case, they wouldn't care about what the topic was about (i.e. Climate Change vs. Abortion). You know, like the GOP in regards to Obama.

Typos there. 30 cm is about 12 inches not 120. A 120 inch amphipod would be something else!

The impact he has on the ending of the film is to retrieve the ark afterwards so it can be stored away and not fall into the hands of someone who could figure out how to use it. Otherwise, it would be sitting there. I can think of a couple of ways the Axis could have weaponized the thing. Imagine how much damage it…

I'm working on the first draft for a sourcebook about a fantasy city called Brimshire

To fully answer your question regarding how necessary having a specimen is to scientific inquiry would require several pages of explaining how various methods in molecular biology work. Experimenters may want to get protein, RNA, DNA, or do histology, etc. He said DNA because he was simplifying. In short, people need…