tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post5419533839839008594..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: That Man Killed Your PonyAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-14184342583618978382010-10-05T01:47:06.477-06:002010-10-05T01:47:06.477-06:00great post, i like it.great post, i like it.H. Lichtenberghttp://www.ferienunterkunft-berlin.de/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-78130232648878920592009-08-24T21:02:25.732-06:002009-08-24T21:02:25.732-06:00I'm not really paying attention to the debate ...I'm not really paying attention to the debate in the states, because I'm Canadian, and universal healthcare is a given here (as well as in the rest of the developed world) so the whole discussion seems pretty silly.<br /><br />If you had a system like ours, you'd still be complaining, and the furniture in the doctor's office might not be as swank, but everybody would get taken care of.<br /><br />Honestly, why is that so bad? Canadians pay a bit more in taxes, and we do it. Is this going to be like the metric system, where it's just a matter of "our tradition is the greatest, and you can't tell an American what to do"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-89325160779805683182009-08-17T04:19:34.553-06:002009-08-17T04:19:34.553-06:00Alonzo,
brilliant post. The comparison with the c...Alonzo,<br /><br />brilliant post. The comparison with the child crying for the "killed pony" and screaming at the alleged killer, while not even thinking of asking for evidence of the pony's death or even <i>existence</i> is spot on.<br /><br />That's what those people are. Children.Pedro Timóteohttp://www.wayofthemind.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-89839379362341712332009-08-17T02:29:46.810-06:002009-08-17T02:29:46.810-06:00great job...
I like your bloggreat job... <br />I like your blogSuehttp://www.berlin49.denoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-66630814813888492952009-08-17T02:02:31.179-06:002009-08-17T02:02:31.179-06:00There is a temptation to call for simply taking th...<i>There is a temptation to call for simply taking the disruptive children out of the room while the adults get on with grown-up matters. Though here, too, if the children are over the age of 18, this is not an option. Here, too, the legitimate response is still to say, "Grow up and quit acting like a two year old."</i><br /><br />And if they don't, then what?Doug S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-78549770383289992212009-08-16T21:26:02.981-06:002009-08-16T21:26:02.981-06:00David Eric -
You are rich in vague generalization...David Eric -<br /><br />You are rich in vague generalizations, but poor in specific criticism. What you wrote could be applied to anything than anyone has ever written (expect, perhaps, comedians).<br /><br />Please be more constructive in your criticism.Eneaszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500232958398471146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-67946055860735925652009-08-16T19:35:32.414-06:002009-08-16T19:35:32.414-06:00Brother Fyfe,
I am sorry to find yet another blog...Brother Fyfe,<br /><br />I am sorry to find yet another blog that contains plenty of facts and ego, but very little wisdom -- and most unsettling, no sense of humor.<br /><br />Too often you don't even follow your own argument, let alone those you criticize. Your blog, while having good, but grossly inflated intentions, is a flurry of mixed-analogies that is underpinned, not by logic, but by an a-priori position that bespeaks insecurity with the mask of intellect. It doesn't appear that you realize that your writing and thoughts are meta-hypnotized.<br /><br />A bit if flexibility and some mirth would do your writing a world of good. Lighten-up, my friend.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />David EricAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-67654195851438379362009-08-15T05:39:13.600-06:002009-08-15T05:39:13.600-06:00"Oh, grow up. Quit acting like a five-year-ol...<i>"Oh, grow up. Quit acting like a five-year-old!"</i> Tried this already this morning and it shut up a religious dissident immediately. I was making the mistake of trying to talk to that person as an adult all these years. Like Amy Alcott said, ridicule is often the only resort when dealing with ignorance.<br /><br />Fantastic post!antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02909850387414677663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-19155029749617056252009-08-14T13:01:11.105-06:002009-08-14T13:01:11.105-06:00I really love the blog.
Keep up the good work!I really love the blog.<br /><br />Keep up the good work!balthazarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06273653982967477308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-65650299675573704172009-08-14T10:30:20.168-06:002009-08-14T10:30:20.168-06:00What's crazy is how disconnected this hysteria...What's crazy is how disconnected this hysteria is from reality. We've got middle class people ready to revolt so that corporations and the megawealthy can have lower taxes and own more of the government and dump more pollution into the environment. We've got people like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin saying their physically disabled children will be put to death under proposed health care reforms, like the handicapped were in Nazi Germany; this despite the reality that universal coverage would be beneficial to children like Trig Palin since health insurance companies aren't so keen on insuring Down Syndrome children.<br /><br />It's like Thomas Franks said in What's the Matter with Kansas?:<br /><br /><b>Like a French Revolution in reverse - one in which the sans-culottes pour down the streets demanding more power for the aristocracy - the backlash pushes the spectrum of the acceptable to the right, to the right, father to the right. It may never bring prayer back to the public schools, but it has rescued all manner of right-wing nostrums from history's dustbin. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, aggricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's antitrust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash might repeal the entire twentieth century.</b>Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-89132214678225628102009-08-14T09:46:14.188-06:002009-08-14T09:46:14.188-06:00I'd give them what they want, but they don'...I'd give them what they want, but they don't even know what it is.<br /><br />That same woman was asked how much money she makes- she didn't know. She was asked if her parents should use Medicare or not- she didn't know. She was asked how Medicare is different from socialism- she didn't know.<br /><br />All she knew is that the bad black man killed her America- not that's she's entirely certain what that is.PersonalFailurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03034292023591747601noreply@blogger.com