Comments on: Wagging fingers http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Anti-Zero http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 The Anti-Zero Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:44:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1635 <i>Moreover, I'd bet that the "guests" down there have more freedom of religious expression than your typical public school student does.</i> I'll take that bet. Moreover, I’d bet that the “guests” down there have more freedom of religious expression than your typical public school student does.

I’ll take that bet.

]]> By: Scott http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Scott Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:04:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1634 I for one would like to condemn people who take a small part of an argument and address it in a way that makes the entire argument seem rediculous without addressing the argument for example using the idea of using the detainies religous attitude toward women to torture them with a womens touch in order to denegrate the confirmed(FBI report) of the chaining of detainees in the fetal position for large periods of time (24 hrs ect) allowing them to sit there in there own piss and feces while the temperature is either raised or lowered to unbearable temperatures all while in solitary confinement among various other torture methods. People that do this type of argument are few but they deserve condemnation anyways. Actually almost everyone argues this way but only when they are obviously wrong but are unwilling to come to terms with their wrongness. I for one would like to condemn people who take a small part of an argument and address it in a way that makes the entire argument seem rediculous without addressing the argument for example using the idea of using the detainies religous attitude toward women to torture them with a womens touch in order to denegrate the confirmed(FBI report) of the chaining of detainees in the fetal position for large periods of time (24 hrs ect) allowing them to sit there in there own piss and feces while the temperature is either raised or lowered to unbearable temperatures all while in solitary confinement among various other torture methods. People that do this type of argument are few but they deserve condemnation anyways. Actually almost everyone argues this way but only when they are obviously wrong but are unwilling to come to terms with their wrongness.

]]> By: Zero http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Zero Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:49:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1633 Thanks for the post. It reminded me that I need to order one of those Club Gitmo tee-shirts pretty soon if it is going to get here in time for my Dad's birthday. Maybe I should also buy one for myself, and wear it to my next astro seminar. Ah, got to love Club Gitmo! Where else can you have buxom female interrogators brushing against you as you savor your glazed chicken and rice pilaf? Moreover, I'd bet that the "guests" down there have more freedom of religious expression than your typical public school student does. Amazing what passes for torture these days. Zero Thanks for the post. It reminded me that I need to order one of those Club Gitmo tee-shirts pretty soon if it is going to get here in time for my Dad’s birthday. Maybe I should also buy one for myself, and wear it to my next astro seminar. Ah, got to love Club Gitmo! Where else can you have buxom female interrogators brushing against you as you savor your glazed chicken and rice pilaf? Moreover, I’d bet that the “guests” down there have more freedom of religious expression than your typical public school student does. Amazing what passes for torture these days.

Zero

]]> By: shhiggins http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 shhiggins Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:07:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1632 Gee, it seems that the number of Americans (not just Repugnicans) who support long-term detention of prisoners without charges or due process and then torturing them sometimes to the death is actually quite high; why else is there no resounding hue and cry, forcing the administration to cease and desist? Gee, it seems that the number of Americans (not just Repugnicans) who support long-term detention of prisoners without charges or due process and then torturing them sometimes to the death is actually quite high; why else is there no resounding hue and cry, forcing the administration to cease and desist?

]]> By: Sam Gralla http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1631 Sam Gralla Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:40:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1631 What, we're only condemning repulicans? How about democrats (or really Europeans, mainly) who say Bush is as bad as Hitler? Not even such a small group. What, we’re only condemning repulicans? How about democrats (or really Europeans, mainly) who say Bush is as bad as Hitler? Not even such a small group.

]]> By: Thoughts from Kansas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/comment-page-1/#comment-1630 Thoughts from Kansas Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:55:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/08/14/wagging-fingers/#comment-1630 <strong>For Shame</strong> Let me join this chorus of consternation by condemning Republicans who would advocate sex ed classes which increase the rates of anal sex in teenagers (as well as disease transmission). They may be a small group, but that doesn't mean they are undese... For Shame

Let me join this chorus of consternation by condemning Republicans who would advocate sex ed classes which increase the rates of anal sex in teenagers (as well as disease transmission). They may be a small group, but that doesn’t mean they are undese…

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