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Arguments usually reinforce delusion.

If most men had many wives, there must have been a lot less men than women, and/or a lot of men with no wife at all. Or perhaps wife sharing would account for it.

Are there any other reasons why incest is considered bad?

You're not supposed to refuse to do business with someone on the basis of your religion (or theirs). However, even though it's illegal, but plenty of people get away with it - "We …

There was a study in Italy of a patient who was cured of a severe form of bipolar called rapid cycling bipolar with "darkness therapy". They locked him in a dark room for 14 hours …

What's ironic is how condescending and formulaic your writing is, considering your hatred of the 'overclass'.

You said the difference is academic. No, it requires significant changes to the legal framework of marriage. Consider the following programs: 1) A program that allows a PC to talk …

Can you name one other kind of marriage that will necessarily get legalized because we legalized same-sex marriage? Can you name one other kind of marriage that is demonstrably mor…

What is the difference between specifics and fundamentals? Aren't the legal ramifications the fundamentals? I mean, it is a legal institution that we are talking about, right? I'm …

So the child of a divorce has to move between more than 2 homes now? A wealthy man can split his income with more than 1 wife that doesn't work? It's not the same, it's qualitative…

> You're right, it's not a slippery slope. It's a gate we've opened and said that whatever your [thoughts, feelings and behaviors about X are], no one else has a right to tell you …

Not when you consider the legal ramifications.

Pointless wankery is offering an opinion like "no clearer for no reason" without justification.

I keep forgetting this one: don't offer help to complainers.

From another perspective, hacking often involves making broken things work better.

grep -v

Is the conflict you read about a bug in the compiler or a bug in the standard? A bug in the standard is much worse, whereas implementation bugs can be fixed. Maybe you read about u…

The ANSI C standards are backwards compatible. K&R C is not one of them. If you write in C89/C90 it will last as long as any LISP program.

ESR's claims about politics : ESR's claims about technology :: your claims about logical fallacies : your claims about ESR

> Ad homimen would be "people named Eric cannot be trusted". Since you actually wrote this sentence 9 hours ago, it is safe to infer that you really don't know anything about logic…