So does the law of gravity, but most people don't jump off bridges. While fear of punishment doesn't deter everyone, it certainly deters most. Or do you believe that if murder and robbery where entirely legal, the rates of incident would be the same.

If laws curbed crime, murder would be virtually unheard of.

Would it be homicide if you were the only transplant match for someone, and failed to donate an organ?

No flawed logic. Keeping an eagle egg alive doesn't require you grow it in your body. If bring a fetus to term didn't require a *massive* imposition (most often happily accepted) on a woman's life, we wouldn't be having this debate.

Sentenced with the death penalty for crimes it has nothing to do with.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but every cell in my body is alive. The egg is alive, as is the sperm. The question of "aliveness" is pretty pointless.

Perhaps because you believe that a human life is a choice instead of a human being. (edited)

Ah, yes, those days of young children when getting > 5 hours of unbroken sleep not only trumped sex, but literally anything else in existence :-).

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At least some of the speculation is not that the anti-depressant makes people want to commit suicide who didn't before. It's that the anti-depressants help remove the enervation that typically accompanies depression *before* it starts to work on improving one's general emotional outlook. In other words, it gives you…

I was so prepared to have it end with the Bird girl as a clockwork back in the boy's house. Glad I was wrong.

Perhaps it doesn't, but it should.

Space Lamprey!

Actually, we cheat. It's cold enough most of the year that nobody can actually tell we're dead until late July, when it thaws for a few weeks.

That was my chuckle of the day. Thank you.

Since the placebo effect is seems to actually assist in healing, this isn't a matter of just feeling better, you may actually *be* better.

The appreciation of jewelry (precious metals and gems) has been fairly close to universal since the man first was able to create them. Billions still flock to see especially memorable works (ever been to a museum?).

I think a lot of television shows could be exponentially stronger as one season dramas. The trouble is that it doesn't really make sense from a dollars and cents point of view, so the networks won't go for it.

Of course, this has already happened. In many societies a man can take multiple wives. Those who are the 'cream of the crop', as you put it, can afford many wives while those less blessed go without, eliminating their genetic contribution.

I think the growing prevalence of somewhat explicit sex in fantasy is one of the reasons for the growing popularity of YA fantasy novels - you can at least be certain you aren't going to be bombarded by explicit scenes that, to my mind, take one right out of the fantasy universe. (I find sex scenes make me feel like…