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Also, about tree catkins, I need to say that green small catkins are much easier to chew than fully formed catkins.
Same principle applies to leaves. Smaller, non-formed leaves, buds are easier to chew than fully formed leaves.
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Keep in mind that some species of plants are poisonous, thus you shouldnt eat anything you cant identify.
Everything you find in wild you should identify to know its not poisonous, harmful or containing toxic waste.
This is meant as education for survival situations, its not complete and you shouldnt rely on this alone.
If you have some food to add to this list, feel free to do so by commenting below.
1. Algae
Its basically plants that grow under water, in rivers or seas. Some are poisonous while some are edible and even available during winter.
2. Tree catkins
Probably the single most common food in forests. Many trees produce edible catkins, only some produce poisonous ones. Squirrels eat tree catkins when nuts arent available.
3. Willow leaves
Willow leaves are painkillers. They contain elements which reduce pain. They are also edible in small amounts.
4. Dandelion leaves
Dandelion is an invasive plant, but its also edible. It does have a poisonous look alike.
5. Dandelion flowers
6. Dandelion wine
You can make wine from dandelion flowers, although making your own alcohol could introduce more risk of poisoning, since home made alcohol has poor safety record.
7. Dandelion roots
Dandelion roots are only good in spring while they are soft. After that they become too hard to chew.
8. Tree bark
Many animals eat tree bark, but they never eat too much. Small amount of tree bark from safe tree is safe to eat, but never eat too much because tree bark can cause constipation if eaten in too large amounts.
9. Soil
Many animals eat soil, including monkeys. Its not really known if soil is safe, if its beneficial for humans, or what benefits it adds. Still, its worthy of mention so that more research can be made about it.
10. Tree leaves
Some trees have edible leaves.
11. Tree nuts
These are most calorie dense foods in the world. For example, walnuts have about 700 calories in 100 grams. Some nuts need to be cooked before you can eat them.
12. Tree fruit
Fruit is also high value food which adds both taste and calories.
13. Berries
These are, just like fruit, very significant in value, but hard to find.
14. Mushrooms
Mushrooms are one of those things which are both scary and attractive. They are scary because many of these can kill you if you eat them.
They are attractive because if one knows enough to make difference between poisonous and non-poisonous, he gains a very valuable food source.
15. Eggs (from birds nests)
Birds eggs arent going to add much, but they will add some nutrition necessary for survival.
16. Nests containing nuts, animals
Squirrels nests often contain nuts. Nests can also contain small animals if you feel like being a meat eater.
17. Grass seeds
Probably a bad food source. Grass seeds are actually better choice to feed chickens with than for human consumption.
18. Insects
Insects are plenty in nature. Insects such as grasshoppers are very nutritious. The only problem is utter disgust caused by people eating them.
19. Fish
Fishing is a useful skill. While some fish are dangerous or poisonous, many are edible.
For fishing, one just needs rod, silk and hook.
The bait is found easily in nature, since insects can be used as bait.
20. Hunted animals
I am not sure how much hunting skills would help, but these usually require some skills about making weapons or traps.
Now, it helps if you already have a weapon.
21. Hunted birds
Birds are easy to hunt. Some people even manage to hunt them with slingshot.
22. Buds that are small leaves from trees
New, young leaves from trees are easier to chew than formed leaves.
23. Tree sap
Some trees produce sap which happens to be edible, so it adds to available food.
24. Honey
This one is probably the most dangerous food source, since it is usually protected by hundreds of bees capable of killing a person.
Yet it contains significant amount of calories.
Keep in mind that this is just a list. Each of these needs to be further researched to learn whats safe, what species and types are safe, how to prepare... how to process...ect.
No one should use this list as a guide itself, but rather as a point to which potential food sources need to be researched more.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Not if the being holding the authority for morality is all powerful and the ultimate authority.
No, it still applies same logic, that morality would be a product of its mind, thus depend on mind.
So in Nazi Germany, it wasn’t wrong to hunt down Jews?
Sure, I think it was wrong due to lowering quality of life, and majority was even clueless about.
Neither weigh more. EVERYONE is equal and created in the image of GOD.
We have already discussed this mathematical problem. If two persons are equal, then two worth more than one.
So you’re promoting eugenics?
I am promoting abortion, which is proven to increase both quality of life and life expectancy. Its simple.
So if someone has bad quality of life, and they are in pain we should just kill them? And I’m not talking about letting them die. I’m talking about killing them. Against their will. Cause that’s what abortion is.
Many people who are in great pain prefer death over life, thus harm caused by birth is greater.
Is that statement you just made objectively true?
As much as you trust your eyes. Of course, there are people who dont trust their eyes. Heh.
Doesn’t answer my objection.
It does. I dont really plan to play this forward backward game with you. Either claim either bye.
It literally is. Millions of lives are saved.
Show a source that says banning abortion saves lives. We know that ban kills people by reducing life expectancy.
Should we just give serial killers body armor to protect them from police bullets?Murder is wrong. Just because it won’t stop doesn’t give a justification for allowing and protecting it.
If your goal isnt to stop abortions or reduce their number significantly, then ban is pointless. What now?
In any other case it’s their choice so no. In the rape cases is the rapist choice so no either.
Its also your choice, since you choose to force woman to give birth by denying her of abortion.
Things can have multiple causes. Thats how "if, then" works. If you deny woman of abortion, then she
is forced to give birth. She is forced by your action of denying her a safe abortion. Simple enough.
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@Greyparrot
Its a solid movie. I have to say that final battle seems a bit non-satisfying, but its not that bad.
I like the freedom vs safety theme it tries to paint: people giving up wishes in exchange for safety.
I liked Bolt movie more. Some disney movies are much better than others. Some earned much more money.
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Its not enough that smart students get bullied and have to put up with horrible teachers, bad education.
It isnt enough that school is such that they are overburdened with 1000 subjects they will never need.
But they also have to pay insane amounts of money to go further in education, live in debt.
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@Mall
It can be anyone who makes public statistics, yes. Thats the only way for me to actually have statistics.
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If you have to pay for education, then being educated is a privilege, not a right. No rights. Just privileges.
I am smart enough to know that rights dont actually exist, and I didnt even go to college.
There should be an increase in people who have education, but some people think education is for rich only.
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@Mall
So you can't see something for yourself so you just rely on a scientist that has done it for his or herself.
Yes.
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The point of life is to produce more life, obviously. Breed, you rabbits! You should all breed right now.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I have no good response to that right now, so I will post link to get last word.
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@Basilisk
Regardless, the Donohue–Levitt hypothesis (that legalised abortion significantly reduced crime in America) is almost certainly false.
Homicide rates and property crime rates have all decreased. I dont see what confuses you in this statistic.
pointed out that Mr Levitt had used the total number of arrests, which depends on the size of a population, and not the arrest rate, which does not
This makes no sense, since population increased, so if number of arrests decreased, then rate decreased as well.
However, I wasnt talking of arrests, but of property crime rate reduction and homicide reduction. Plenty of statistics.
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: "As I listened, he said to the others, 'Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children..."
If Quran said this, they would say how Quran promotes violence. Bible is more violent than Quran, obviously.
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In the United States, approximately 40,000 people were lobotomized and in England, 17,000 lobotomies were performed.
According to one estimate, in the three Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, a combined figure of approximately 9,300 lobotomies were performed.[140]
Scandinavian hospitals lobotomized 2.5 times as many people per capita as hospitals in the US.[141] According to another estimate, Sweden lobotomized at least 4,500 people between 1944 and 1966, mainly women. This figure includes young children.[142]
And in Norway, there were 2,005 known lobotomies.[143] In Denmark, there were 4,500 known lobotomies.[144]
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The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses",[n 1] although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy.[4]
The use of the procedure increased dramatically from the early 1940s and into the 1950s; by 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States and proportionally more in the United Kingdom.[5]
A large number of patients were gay men.[6] More lobotomies were performed on women than on men: a 1951 study found that nearly 60% of American lobotomy patients were women, and limited data shows that 74% of lobotomies in Ontario from 1948 to 1952 were performed on female patients.[7][8][9] From the 1950s onward, lobotomy began to be abandoned,[10] first in the Soviet Union[11] and Europe.[12]
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Humanity invented lobotomy. This is just lobotomy with extra steps. I guess regular lobotomy became boring for people.
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@Owen_T
Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children
Those are words of Jesus, according to Christians. What a merciful caring loving God. Clearly you dont understand the Bible.
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@Owen_T
Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children
You are taking it out of context. Are there any situations where sane person would act like that?
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@Greyparrot
You and I may disagree on many things, but we agree that system in US is completely retarded.
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@Greyparrot
“$10 or less per month.”
As I said, people are retarded. People lack basic knowledge, and make contradictive decisions when voting in government.
Most people dont have their priorities set, cant weigh values, dont know whats important, cant think in premises...
When you look at people explaining why they vote for someone, you can see that they are clueless.
Anyone saying "I vote for person because Few jobs saved here and there, few billions saved..." is retarded.
The goal is not to save few billions or few jobs when trillions of dollars are being wasted everywhere.
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@Greyparrot
Isn't this what the people want?
If people wanted it, nothing could prevent them from giving their money to green energy without government managing.
But people dont want to pay for it, and they ignorantly believe its free if government pays it.
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@Mall
Why do you believe scientists without empirically investigating for yourself?
Because I cant empirically investigate many things. Its not even possible. Many people are necessary to gather statistics.
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@Greyparrot
Green energy does need to be supported, but not by trillions of dollars all payed by US citizens.
Government should manage economy by reducing negative buisnesses, through taxing or banning them, or not allowing their spread.
However, funding failed buisnesses is a path to Soviet economy which failed exactly because of endlessly funding failed buisnesses.
If buisness is necessary on the market, it will succeed, so no government funding necessary to support any buisness.
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@Greyparrot
Trump also gave trillions to the rich by reducing taxes on them. Again and again, these candidates are incompetent.
What we really need is someone who promises less things, not more things. But such person cannot exist.
Government's promises arent free. But people seem to hold belief that they are. American education producing non-educated people.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
""Anthony*, a 14-year-old autistic boy, was making awkward overtures to his crush. Other kids thought the courtship was cute until, according to his attorney, Nicole Pittman of Impact Justice , Anthony got frustrated and sent his crush a picture of his genitals. "Parents flipped out," Pittman told Broadly, explaining that they requested authorities press charges against the teen. Now, Anthony is listed on the sex offender registry. He can no longer attend school or even be left alone in a room with his little brothers.
"As a person on the registry, you're considered a sex offender, and sex offenders can't be with children under the age of 17," Pittman explains. "In one moment he can be [Anthony] who is on the spectrum, but the minute this happens, all of that goes out the window and he becomes in people's eyes a predator—that's not the truth. That's not who these kids are. They are young kids on the spectrum."
Pittman has been defending children like Anthony for 12 years, and says there are still several thousand juveniles on the sex offender registry in the State of Michigan.
Some of these children were on the autism spectrum or struggling with disabilities, but most judges have refused to make exceptions, citing what Pittman describes as a "one size fits all" policy. Pittman, along with other lawyers and social workers, is fighting to change these laws and educate the public about the true cost of their unilateral enforcement.
Pittman identifies Michigan-based social worker Susan H. Rogers as a leader in the cause. Owner of the Parent Counseling and Consulting, PLC, Rogers began diving deeper into the problem 11 years ago, when she was asked to join the Professional Advisory Board for a Useful Registry in Michigan examining sex offender laws and their impact on disabled people and juveniles. "People on [a] sex offender registry don't get second chances," she told Broadly in a phone call. "'This person has a disability. We'll take them off the registry'—no, it doesn't happen like that."
"Most times with children there is no sexual [motivation]," Pittman explains, but "the moment the touching looks sexual, though, society labels them pedophiles." Rogers added that "it doesn't matter if a person is on the spectrum. They're going to be treated like any sex offender." When an autistic child pulls his pants down in a grocery store, Pittman explains, "We look at [the situation] from the lens [of] a 50 year old man [flashing people]."
Minors are not listed publicly on the sex offender registry, but they're forbidden from attending school because that's where children congregate. Once they turn 18, most states require them to register on the public sex offender list with an identifying photo. Children like Anthony would be identified as child pornography distributors for sending nude selfies, and required to disclose their status as a registered sex offender to any employers in some states. "There's a lot of homelessness and depression [because people can't get jobs]," Pittman explains. "We have a whole new generation of victims on this law."
Pittman has interviewed 500 registered kids. While only some were on the autism spectrum, she says all of them have been victims of abuse. "We are putting people on [a] registry who should be protected," she declares. Pittman believes that judges understand the problem but are reluctant to treat children with autism differently than adult offenders, recalling one judge who told her, "I understand what you're saying, but I'll be looked at as soft on sex offenders."
Police officers, on the other hand, seem more open to change, according to Pittman. She points to a Michigan boarding school where cops have made an effort to reduce conflict by asking for help communicating with children with autism. "Law enforcement is really seeing this happening and really want to get involved and say, 'These aren't the people who want to be on the registry,'" Pittman explains.
Michigan has pioneered the effort to change how authorities treat children with autism. For nearly 20 years, the 17th Circuit Court of Kent County has allowed children to plead to what D'Orio describes as a "a lesser, non-registerable offense." In 2011, Michigan passed an amendment to the Michigan Sex Offender Registry allowing children "who committed an offense under [the] age of 14" to be removed. "Six-year-olds were on it," Pittman recalls. "Three thousand children came off [the list that year]."
Pittman and Rogers agree that the biggest problems facing children with autism are misunderstandings about their behavior, especially when it comes to sexuality. According to Pittman, the US defunded research on childhood sexuality in 1950. "All the benchmarks we use are the 1950s, when there weren't [nude] selfies and what," she says. "We have no measures in this country to understand what normal childhood sexuality is."
Rogers hosts seminars where teens on the autism spectrum can ask dating questions, and instructs teachers and parents how to understand and communicate with autistic children. When asked how we might help keep children like Anthony from being unfairly labeled as sex offenders, Rogers responded, "Education, education, education.""
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@ADreamOfLiberty
It is still unclear if by "rape" they mean real rape or "we're going to call this rape because we don't like it"
In most cases, it isnt actually rape. I managed to find some stories that explain it in detail.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Anyway, there are plenty of links concerning sex offenders and what percentage of them are children under 18.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Its a document from 2009, but I dont think it changed much since then. There are sex offenses also.
Sex offenses are different. I have read that 70% of sex offenses against children are committed by children.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Like this?
"According to the U.S. Department of Justice, juvenile sex offenders comprise 25.8% of all sex offenders and 35.6% of sex offenders against juvenile victims."
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@FLRW
We need to go back to Eisenhower's 91 percent top tax rate
Yes. Neither candidate has a working plan nor has come up with explanation how will they fix US economy.
Both brag about saving few jobs here and there, and the audience claps. These are all just small victories.
The actual plan for achieving greater success for 340 million people is non-existent in both candidates. They have nothing.
I have watched both Kamala and Trump speak. Nothing they said convinced me of some great future success.
As long as audience claps and show goes on, its all "good", but really, these candidates are incompetent.
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US government spending is 25% of its GDP, which is a huge number and huge drain on its economy.
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Kamala wants to raise taxes on rich and reduce taxes on middle class, which should benefit middle class.
Trump wants to reduce taxes on the rich while taxing middle class more by indirect means (tarrifs, money printing).
Sure, one could say that Trump's "trickle down economics" might indirectly have some benefits for middle, lower class.
But there is one crucial thing missing in both candidates. Neither wants to reduce spending. Both increase it.
This is very important because there is no actual way to fix economy if government spending keeps rising.
Every dollar in government budget is taken from US citizens and used mostly in much less effective way.
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@Mall
Not all research agrees with each other. Scientists take specific cases to make general conclusions. Mistakes can happen.
It happens that general conclusion of one scientist contradicts general conclusion of the other, due to error or difference.
Its common in statistics. Smoking usually shortens life by 10 years, but different groups can have different results.
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@Greyparrot
What's so religiously glorious about worshipping a cold, lifeless planet?
I am not really interested now to chase strawmen. I am sure you have plenty more of strawmen.
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@Greyparrot
Sadly for who or what exactly?
I cant sleep at night because of how hot it is. Maximal temperatures are up by 10 degrees.
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@ebuc
Sperm cell is biologic life as is egg cell.
Yes, sperm is alive and it dies if it doesnt reach egg. Sperm is necessary for human life.
Humanity is currently in an overpopulation situation with the number of humans, their standard of living, and operating systems that are non-compatible with a longer term existence on Earth without unnecessary suffering on the increase with only more to come.
Christians dont believe in overpopulation since it contradicts their teachings against abortion. Resources on Earth are obviously limited.
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@Mall
Those things you haven't empirically verified for yourself, do believe and trust the scientists findings ?
Yes, mostly. Although when I debate, I prefer when all sources agree, even tho its rare. Majority rules.
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I dont want for him to get banned. I think we should just ignore even if its obvious.
My goal isnt to ban opposition. I need opposition. I am not really feeling good when without opposition.
Besides, he was banned for insults(a small offense). Since he is not repeating offense, no point in ban.
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Maximal temperatures are much higher than before. Its too hot, and sadly, it will only get more hot.
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@Mall
Is there anything that a scientist has tested, researched, experimented and observed that you haven't?
Yes, there are plenty of things scientist tested, researched... that I havent. Its obvious. I cant be everywhere.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I never said it was size. I said a greater mind. A mind that determines morality for all of us would have to be greater.
It would still be the product of the mind, no matter how great the mind is. So still subjective value thing.
Ok. So, society determines morality then?If the Nazi's were in charge, would it be morally good do help hunt down Jews?
Society determines which morality is most popular and most valuable to most people. Needs of the many vs few.
You cannot logically explain why goals of few outweigh goals of many. Simple math about what weighs more.
Sure, I do often disagree with majority, but per principle of equality, they do outweigh me by far.
Besides, you are debating to convince people, and so far majority remains not convinced. Most support abortion now.
As would I. Doesn't mean you get to disregard the people with those illnesses and throw them away
So a dichotomy choice between healthy person and severely ill person makes it obvious who you should produce, no?
Ok good. And is there a reason or reasons for that or just that it can't feel pain.
Reducing pain of born people, improving quality of life of born people, reducing death rates of born people...
Are there objective truths?
Thats irrelevant to this debate, but there are observable truths, which are closest to objective truth there is.
So, your value in humans is their quality in life. How do you know someone suffering might rise out of it?How do you know someone successful might fall?Is that really the way you want to determine worth and value?
We know by tautology that women have more liberty if they have a choice to have abortion or not.
We also know by statistics of death rates, liberty, life expectancy and many other, that legal abortion benefits.
No, the purpose of banning abortion is to prevent the murder of children.
That goal is not really achieved. It just makes most of those women have unsafe abortions instead safe.
If someone was raped, the only one forcing them to give birth would be the rapist.
You would be forcing women to give birth by denying them of abortion. Its not "you or rapist".
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@Moozer325
But in rhetoric, text or poems, I am a fan of anaphora. I like all the ways one can express.
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@Moozer325
I am just trying to calm the aggressive situation. I am not trying to start a debate on sophists lol
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@ADreamOfLiberty
"Approximately 200,000 people in 41 states are currently on the sex offender registry for crimes they committed as children"
There are about 780,000 people on sex offenders registry, meaning 25% to 30% offenders did it as children.
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@Moozer325
I don’t think he’s a public, he’s probably just dumb or gets his media from one place
You shouldnt call people dumb. It doesnt achieve anything and makes people feel worse and feel rejected/unworthy.
Mall has actually beaten top debaters in a debate more than once. He has the skills most people dont have.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
They don't really lock up children for engaging in sexual activity
They do sometimes. They put them on sex offender's list. About 30% of registered sex offenders are children.
This is due to problem of consistency. Children are held accountable for crimes. Sex with children is a crime.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Capable surely, but the reason they do stupid things more than adults is not because they are incapable of reasoning but because they don't have the wisdom
Many people dont have wisdom. Lack of wisdom isnt really the basis for taking away choices. It is absurd.
People gain wisdom by making choices, thus preventing people from making choices prevents even more wisdom as result.
The text compared countries where age of consent was 14 and found no worse outcomes than where its 18.
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@FLRW
I'm going with Einstein
Smart people are much more likely to bring good decisions and even more likely to be good people.
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@Mall
At what age or circumstance is sexual education to be given to children?
The sooner you tell children what sex is
and dangers involving it, the better for them, statistically speaking about benefits.
Children who are clueless about sex
will learn about it anyway from peers or from movies. Its everywhere.
So logically, its better if children learn about
dangers of sex as soon as possible, and learn alternatives.
I dont see the point of protecting
children from knowledge, when the common cause of problems is lack of knowledge.
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@Mall
Your rationale to believe a scientist over a minister
Scientists use observable facts
and create observable proven general premises, and support what many debates are based on.
The only valid form of logic is deduction,
which creates specific conclusion from general premise obtained through logic, observation.
Without scientists, you would have no
many of the general premises which you use in debate, destroying many debates.
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@Mall
Does this include being against other contraceptives besides abortion?
You are consistent enough to know that pro life position bans anything which reduces life. Many are unaware.
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