Sum1hugme

Both. The only president with a budget surplus since 1982 has been Bill Clinton. The worst budget deficit was by Obama (I haven't seen the data updated for trump's last two years though). There is not a party trend for spending.

One way health care costs are regulated is by requiring people to purchase them. Otherwise the most liable people will be the ones buying health insurance, driving the cost up because health insurance companies will want to cover their losses.

Lol, you just care too much

How do you know James wasn't just making things up? 

You said you know that the people in the bible had knowledge of god because of what James said. How does "because they James said so" mean James had knowledge of god? 

At the most fundamental level however, it is truly random. Therefore the fundamental nature of the universe is randomness, even though we can predict the effects of macrophysical deterministic systems pretty accurately.

Faith =/= Knowledge

Faith = argument from ignorance

I was a Christian once. So you assume they had knowledge of god because they said so? How does that follow?

How do you know that the people who wrote the bible knew anything about god? 

  Kant's theory is a deontological ethic, meaning that an action is moral if it is done because of a rule that prescribes it. He argued that reason legislates these rules a priori. 

  There are a lot of ways to refute consequentialism. One major distinction Kant makes is between a thing that is good in itself, and a thing that is good as an instrument. The thing he identifies as good in itself is the good will, because it doesn't rely on the satisfaction of some preference in order to qualify it's goodness. The good will is to action, happiness, and talents, what a gemstone is to a ring, it has its full value in itself, and it's value isn't modified by it's setting. Acting from the motivation of duty to the moral law doesn't require the satisfaction of a consequence to qualify it's morality, it's good in itself.

  Therefore, morality is held in the motive for action. Kant makes a further distinction between the two kinds of motives: duty and inclination. All inclinations are arbitrary, which only leaves the motive of duty. Acting from ones duty to the moral law doesn't require the satisfaction of consequences in order to be moral.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Idk how you could know that? He just seems like a Deepak Chopra kind of guy 

I've told you, he just writes word salad. None of it means anything.

Ah I see

I'm not trying to appeal to all ages. But the mods cant control who signs up. I'm just saying that if you made it so that if someone is younger than 13, it's on them for lying about it if any hot water comes up (which I'm betting it won't. I mean, nobody is going to get in trouble because a 12 yo lied to get on the site.)

That's ridiculous. My answer to you applies to everyone. Imagination doesn't equal reality. That applies to everyone including you.

See #31 and #33 for the answer to the question you said I didn't answer.

DART: Could you make it impossible to list your birthday as younger than 13? 

Supa: if the above was implemented, wouldn't that alleviate the legal burden? Bc then it's on the user for lying.

What correlation? I'm suspecting a false analogy fallacy.

I dont hold a philosophical position about the origin of the universe. It looks like It was probably the big bang.

It's a dumb rule. Gifted children should be allowed to stretch out their wings here and get some real competition under their belts.

I never argued that god cannot exist. I invite you to demonstrate one fact that shows the universe had a creator. Otherwise it's all in your head. 

You didn't have to for it be imaginary. I wasn't the first child to imagine a monster under my bed, it doesn't make it less imaginary 

Sure, IF real, unicorns could be empirically demonstrated. Same with god and heaven.

I'll bite. What part of kant's philosophy do you disagree with?

If you can bring forth a single empirical fact that ties either of those concepts to reality, I'm game to hear it.

I'm on bedrock. Hmu in pm and maybe we can arrange something. 

I'm sorry, but nothing you said made any sense. Maybe I'm just missing the point...

I played grepolis for a year or two

"He" Is the grammatically correct singular pronoun to describe a person if you don't know their gender. 

Ebuc typically posts word salads. Just how it is ig

I'm sum1hugme on chess.com

Creating a president, as I understand, helped contribute to the destruction of DDO.

1. No

2. No

3. Yes for hall of fame - No for DART President - Yes for list of banned users

It's not like vietnam. I mean, 100x more Americans died in Vietnam than Afghanistan in half the time.

When you post a comment on your own debate during the voting stage so that it goes to the front page.

Nah man, most debates don't get commented on, and most get maybe one vote. That's why I vote bump my debates constantly to keep them on the front page so they actually get votes. Otherwise, it could slip right past.

  I can get madman's sentiment though. It gets annoying constantly seeing "the Jews" this and "the Jews" that.