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"Avoiding harsh words could look like a logical fallacy but it is just being polite." The logical fallacy is accusing people who consider intolerance unacceptable of themselves bei…

No, I really don't. Like I said, he can have whatever opinion he likes, but once he starts advocating that laws should reflect his opinion, it's stepped over a line. The relevant l…

Sure, but this wouldn't be one of them. If a woman even suggested their employer had discriminated against them on the basis of weight, then lawsuit or not, their employer would be…

Stop reading the abstract and go read the paper. "but they do cite that control groups had tumors" Yes, of course they did - they were the same breed of rat, and as I've already me…

"Also, the ability to get to 100 pounds overweight without only mild loss of professional and social status (instead of the severe loss women face) is a male privilege of sorts." W…

This presumes that every belief and idea occupies an equal plane of legitimacy, and that everything is basically a matter of opinion. It's not. His views are not acceptable. He's f…

Maybe because, in every audience, there are some people who have been beaten, or know people who have been beaten or killed, because of beliefs like this? Folks who've watched some…

The problem with this line of argumentation is that you really don't need to invoke vague nominalizations like "power" and "privilege" to argue against this "i'm being oppressed be…

/pro forma comment about studies showing people with the most virulently homophobic attitudes tend to have repressed homosexual tendencies

Your argument is nonsense. People can voice intolerant opinions all they like, but when they make laws that affect a specific group of people on the basis of that intolerance, they…

It's not really any different from the black movement. People who defend institutionalized hatred of gay people don't seem to understand this, and are forever perplexed as to why p…

I disagree with who you are as a person, and on that basis, I think you should be denied rights that are routinely given to the rest of the population. Additionally, I find you per…

Let me rephrase: by control, what I mean is not "control group," but "statistical control." Their statistical analysis did not properly account for the immensely increased likeliho…

Sure, but it's really, really hard to believe it's all so sterile and impersonal. "Hey, i'm sure you're a really nice person, I just think you should be legally discriminated again…

You need to remember - or know - that the Internet and software where THE thing to be writing about in science fiction circles back in the early nineties. See: Sterling, Bruce. Did…

> That said, I do share his distaste for the gay rights movement's propensity to attack and attempt to blacklist and attack their opponents. Uh, what do you think that the gay righ…

Some studies that purport to show certain effects do, and are routinely criticized for the same reason. Proper medical trials, particularly for, say, a new drug use far larger samp…

For starters, the breed of rat used - Sprague-Dawley - is one that routinely develops cancer and tumors, and is, in fact, used in cancer research for exactly this reason. So the fa…

It literally takes me about five seconds to strip the DRM off of an epub, and then I can have backup copies of my own library. No losing books because a pipe bursts or a trunk gets…

Yeah, the ecological benefits of an ereader may or may not be a wash. Sure, you're saving on trees, but most of the trees books are made from are farmed anyway, and electronics are…

No, it's really not. A base model Nook can hold about 2000 books. If you have the older simple touch with an SD slot, you can expand that into the realm of....far more books than y…

First of all, just because you only read one book at a time, doesn't mean that other people are the same way. Second, even if you only read one book at a time (like yourself, and m…

Ugh, coming up with something "cool" under time constraints, while someone is sitting there and watching my every move, is not exactly a realistic gauge of anything. One of the rea…

I think you're missing a couple of points here. First and foremost, he wouldn't mind being asked "petty questions pertaining to his ability to do the job," but by and large, he is …