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Another point: bragging about how bitey your dachshund is, as though that vindicates your poorly behaved pitbull, really makes me think you shouldn't own dogs. Why didn't you train…

Why do people fear pitbulls more than yappy ankle biters? I just don't get it! Feigned ignorance will get you nowhere with me.

A rational person is more concerned around a trained tiger than a house-cat, despite both having the same capricious-but-usually-peaceful temperament. A rational person considers n…

Tranquilizer darts only work fast enough for self defense in video games.

> A vicious dog won't immediately attack. It's trivial to find videos of dog attacks that contradict your absolutist assertion.

Some of the shootings of dogs are justified, others are not. It depends on the dog and the circumstance, but of course every dog owner will claim their dog was a loveable puppy aft…

Better to run and look like a coward than to get bit. Looking like a coward in front of a stranger costs you nothing. Misjudging a dog and getting bit can cost you disfigurement or…

The premise of bloodsports appeals to dirtbags, who buy these sort of dogs and neglect to train them at best (or very often, train them to be vicious.)

Probably 664 is what they had available, or what their calculated geometry called for. It seems silly to speculate that they could have or should have gone for 666 but deliberately…

I don't think that is misleading; a storm downed the airship, resulting in nearly all the crew dying. That they didn't die on impact doesn't change things. If a torpedo sank a ship…

When I was in elementary school I made paper out of cut up blue jeans and learned that it was invented in China. I also learned that the Egyptians invented papyrus, which was simil…

No one talks about it? China inventing paper, printing and gunpowder is something every school child knows. I think I've heard about it about a million times. These facts are commo…

Forgive me if I'm missing your joke, but most of the American public did think that way. Most of the American public was against war until Japan attacked America. And responding to…

Wind will never not be a problem for airships. At best, modern weather radars and forecasting might allow airships to avoid storms better than their early 20th century counterparts…

You joke, but I was earnestly pleasantly surprised to see that dang isn't chilling this conversation with his complaints about "nationalist flamebait" yet.

> Natural rights. 'Natural rights' are the entitlements we feel that we have, derived from the rules we feel others must follow according to natural law. 'Natural law' is the rules…

> If the government abdicates its role, I agree you have the right to enforce your own personal justice. [...] I also find it a bit spurious to say that the government has abdicate…

As I see it, people have a right to receive justice. The deal we have with governments is simple: the government handles justice, and in return, we don't handle it ourselves. This …

The scientific process is a means to an end. The only reason it has any value at all is because it gets better results than other processes. But this process is not equally effecti…

> It lays out observations and a hypothesis that might explain those observations. The part you're missing here is where those hypotheses are tested. A field that consistently make…

>>> Good sociology papers are just as scientific as physics or engineering papers, > Snobbery about the conventional levels of significance (etc) is almost entirely beside the poin…

Where do you lay the blame? With the trend followers who are faking disorders, or with the researchers who are pointing out that trend?

Maybe he didn't get it.. or maybe you didn't like his answer?

The people following this particular stupid trend wanted people to believe they had an illness. They got what they wanted, though perhaps not quite in the way they wanted.

A smartass is a person, not a technological artifact. I don't mean to be nitpicky. There are a lot of ways the word smart has been paired with other words. But "smart [object]", wh…