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 Topic: Is empathy required for lying? |
Orwell
Replies: 6
Views: 90
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:30 am Subject: Is empathy required for lying? |
| Theory of mind is required for lying. Empathy, liars can do without just fine. |
| Topic: Peace is worthless if you don't have freedom. |
Orwell
Replies: 26
Views: 411
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:26 am Subject: Peace is worthless if you don't have freedom. |
Personally, having such ideals is wrong in my opinion as the only way to put the ideals in place is to kill people who are against them.
Does that make anything wrong?
Moral nihilism much? At least ... |
| Topic: 'The Speed of Dark' a good book? (Autism and Cure sci-fi) |
Orwell
Replies: 6
Views: 180
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:46 pm Subject: 'The Speed of Dark' a good book? (Autism and Cure sci-fi) |
| Sounds interesting. Probably shouldn't be asking this, but on Piratebay, in the sci-fi/fantasy library, how do I go about getting just that book? I don't really want to download 6 gig of illegal liter ... |
| Topic: Savage on autism: "A fraud, a racket. ... |
Orwell
Replies: 29
Views: 729
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:41 pm Subject: Re: boycott the advertisers |
If people care about this they can write to the advertisers are tell them that since they provide the money to pay for this hate, we refuse to buy their products.
I don't hate Savage enough to go o ... |
| Topic: 'The Speed of Dark' a good book? (Autism and Cure sci-fi) |
Orwell
Replies: 6
Views: 180
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:36 pm Subject: 'The Speed of Dark' a good book? (Autism and Cure sci-fi) |
| Sounds interesting. Probably shouldn't be asking this, but on Piratebay, in the sci-fi/fantasy library, how do I go about getting just that book? I don't really want to download 6 gig of illegal liter ... |
| Topic: What do you get as a normal grade in each class? |
Orwell
Replies: 54
Views: 2058
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Forum: School and College Life Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:37 pm Subject: What do you get as a normal grade in each class? |
As promised, my AP test results for this year. They are out of 5.
AP Calculus-BC: 5 (also a 5 on the AB subscore)
AP Chemistry: 4
AP Physics B: 5
AP US Government and Politics: 5
AP English Lit ... |
| Topic: People still want Ron Paul for president. |
Orwell
Replies: 22
Views: 333
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:13 pm Subject: People still want Ron Paul for president. |
This coming from an Obama supporter,
but some people are still in denial...
The probability of this happening is close to zero,
but the GOP will have to give Ron Paul a consultation prize,
such ... |
| Topic: do you think animals have religions too? |
Orwell
Replies: 17
Views: 237
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:36 pm Subject: do you think animals have religions too? |
Some rodents, especially prairie dogs (which have been found to use abstract language)
This is interesting. Source? I'd love to read about prairie dog language. |
| Topic: Help a Linux n00b? |
Orwell
Replies: 85
Views: 1377
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:52 pm Subject: Help a Linux n00b? |
^ Thanks for your patience.
No problem. Ubuntu(and linux) is about community. And I like to help.
That's a nice thing to know. Being able to get help for this OS is very comforting.
I now hav ... |
| Topic: Help a Linux n00b? |
Orwell
Replies: 85
Views: 1377
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:29 pm Subject: Help a Linux n00b? |
| ^ Thanks for your patience. I now have working sound. The only things that I can think of that aren't working are network printing (I am fairly confident that if I actually hooked up to a printer with ... |
| Topic: Help a Linux n00b? |
Orwell
Replies: 85
Views: 1377
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:16 pm Subject: Help a Linux n00b? |
Apologies if I'm being obtuse, but I'm still not quite sure of how to do this.
I don't think you actually did anything to the file. Vi is an old-school unix text editor -- it's in unix standards tha ... |
| Topic: Reformist or Revolutionary? (from a leftie) |
Orwell
Replies: 13
Views: 189
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:46 pm Subject: Reformist or Revolutionary? (from a leftie) |
| I'm definitely a reformist, and actually quite dislike the revolutionary viewpoint, at least when it comes to changing the western world. I find it to be all talk, infatuation with a romantic idea of ... |
| Topic: Libertarianism |
Orwell
Replies: 116
Views: 2862
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:31 pm Subject: Libertarianism |
| I don't know much about Libertarianism, but it seems that the idea of a 'minarchist' (is that the word?) government is usually defined as paying for the courts, the police force, & a defensive arm ... |
| Topic: Right to vote -versus- duty to vote |
Orwell
Replies: 54
Views: 1014
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:15 pm Subject: Right to vote -versus- duty to vote |
| If you accept the premise that the system is corrupt (and the system obviously includes voting) then, FROM THOSE PREMISES, the futility of voting follows. A convincing argument from the opposing viewp ... |
| Topic: Right to vote -versus- duty to vote |
Orwell
Replies: 54
Views: 1014
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:13 pm Subject: Re: Right to vote -versus- duty to vote |
What are your opinions? Should voting be obligatory or should voting be a right rather than a duty?
Should never be obligatory.
Also, in the margins of this question:
- should underaged people ag ... |
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