"King" is weird typo for Clark.

The world is a unity, but science if divided into subjects for practicality. Nonetheless, people like King and Khan (unfamiliar with Hanson) are crankish in their insistence on the power of genes. And poor scientists in their refusal to consider alternative hypotheses, such as the greater deterrence provided by…

Kept thinking about this, and kept thinking, but I still can't see how this approach isn't just as well served by execution of innocents. That is, it is fundamentally the same as clementi's.

Deterrence by and large is not a conscious, rational decision. Trying to up the ante and proportion the deterrence to the crime, by increasingly long sentences, cruelty of punishment or publicity, just doesn't work as promise. Calculations inspired by such things are pretty irrelevant to crimes of passion. For that…

pierre clementi does not regard prison as harsh punishment. Nor is he alone in that, however imbecilic that seems. As for why people focus on capital punishment, the clementis of the world want many, many more people to be killed. In places like Brazil and the Philippines they like to hire off duty policemen and…

No, it is not a fact that most Americans believed in evolution at the time. And yes, the Scopes trial had a chilling effect. And it is hard to see how you think the law would have had no effect if it had only not been challenged.

The chilling effect of Scopes on the teaching of evolution is why believing Scopes was "overblown" is bullshit.

That's sad.

Some laughs, all the conflict larded over with fifteen minutes of sentimental goo prompted by out of the blue spiritual conversions. But the sad truth I thiink is that everyone should be prepared to mentally overlook the last fifteen minutes of most comedies. Comedy is conflict, but conflicts are hard to resolve, so…

"Hurting someone innocent is never acceptable, revolution be damned."

Ooh, fake questions from an inept phony!

If nothing else, imagining 3D might be a thing proves you completely wrong.

The honest meaning of "politically correct" is pleasing to the powerful. So, no environmentalism and anti-imperialism are politically incorrect.

And that's not what Avatar is about.

Lots of comments that confirm a movie where the US Army gets its ass kicked is going to leave a lot of people seriously pissed, forever. Or maybe its just, Dances With Wolves great because we get to be noble about how sorry we feel for our victims in this great tragedy and all? But when they win, there's no artistic…

I always thought it was so the nerves could be dedicated to their ponytail links.
Takes a lot of bandwidth to upload a soul so that it could be immortal.

But it had a much more politically correct theme than Avatar.

Call Me Joe may well have supplied the soul transferred into an artificial body gimmick. But it was a story where a single individual abandons society to live in the wild. That's not the story in Avatar.
The story in Avatar is, white guy goes over to the enemy, and lo! God loves them better and gives them the victory.…

Janeway or the highway!

Thought I'd have to mention John Glover in Brimstone. Thanks.