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Is everyone having the right to vote a good idea? For a voter, the voting process is basically taking a mix of (at least) history, law, economics and science, connecting it all together and then applying it (or post a better definition). If you think that you don't need to know anything...

The war has now hit Turkey. Russia still against intervening and probably China too. Turkey asks U.N. Security Council to act after Syria attack Casualties (wiki):

What research? Where else have significant gaps been closed?

Is there any evidence that affirmative action works? It just seems they're talking about people who couldn't make the cut but were just placed there. If you did affirmative action for other groups, e.g. putting people with down syndrome in engineering work, or putting physically weak people in...

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This is absurd. No one is saying that once you become areligious/atheist you suddenly drop all moral knowledge that you had before, because it wouldn't be done in isolation. It would be done in a society where the history and culture and the majority of the people have already dictated what's...

Which means it could easily accept any behaviour again in the future. With a solid grounding of morality (Islam) you would know it's not okay. With atheism you would just go with your peers.

So tomorrow slavery, raping, murdering, stealing might be okay. As senator Bernardi brought up, there are plenty of people who want gay marriage and bestiality legalized, because, why not? What if you grew up in a society where robbing/raping was okay?

How do you atheists choose a strong system of morality? It seems like you're just going with whatever society says is good and bad because you don't have any real principles. Who says something you consider to be bad now will not be considered to be good a few decades in the future? The laws and...

I think he's saying that whether or not them supporting it is against Islam doesn't matter, because they still do. A problem with deciding whether something is against Islam or not is that people's understandings of the technicalities of any system will differ and among the authorities who are...

Doesn't the average fruit juice ferment after you open it and create some tiny % of alcohol?

He's saying Islam is more pure and legitimate than other religions that change with the zeitgeist so he's thinking of converting.

Funny. Our speech laws allow a conference where the goal is to convince all the attendees to support and push for a future state where free speech is banned. Iffy.

Are you saying that all pieces of expression that negatively impact someone's feelings should be banned? Most people here don't think that hurting your precious religious ideology is on some taboo level.

Start with a basic rule for judging whether acts are okay or not, like autonomy = good. To then evaluate how well an act fits the rule you then need facts which you can get with plenty of studies done over decades in a scientific way. In the case of old Muslim men marrying 7-14 year old girls...

Autonomy=good is kind of arbitrary though isn't it?