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  1. Curious George

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    I am not so sure that your post here is sensical. Either I am missing a joke that was intended at the expense of the person to whom I was replying, or I don’t know. If I remember correctly from previous discussions, unless you have since changed your view, you hold some form of compatablism...
  2. Curious George

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    This seems to be rambling and I don’t think I can address any of it meaningfully if we have this miscommunication. I am an atheist. Not just some person who lacks belief in a god, but one who believes no god exists. I am sorry you feel I do not understand what you wrote. Perhaps we should...
  3. Curious George

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Yeah, I haven’t read any of your responses in this thread. I have no idea to what you are referring, or why you took personally something that was not meant to be personal even to the poster to which it was addressed.
  4. Curious George

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    I would encourage you to review this research with a skeptical eye. Look over the method and the results. I have no interest in paying for each article and parsing them for you. If you want to rely on abstracts and pop-science articles, I don’t think you will have a thorough understanding of...
  5. Curious George

    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Not believing in free will is unreasonable, irrational and, I would even suggest, impossible. Such an incredible claim, that humans have zero degree of control, is counterintuitive and contrasts with everything we experience. Is it possible that all we experience is just an illusion of free...
  6. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Yes, but I realize that these need to be differentiated with more than x is more dangerous than y so therefore x should be banned.
  7. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    ??? Rest assured, you are not treading on any principles of mine. I love animals, this is true. But I was hoping for intellectual conversation on the topic of the ban, the reasoning behind the ban, governments role, and the best way to the ends this ban hopes to achieve. If you simply...
  8. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    The question that is raised if one supports such a ban is why this one breed? Such logic os required to say that this one breed should be banned.
  9. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Yes the post is in part about why just add this breed to the list? Why not Rottweilers, why not any dog breed that has killed a human, why not all dogs over a certain size? Can’t your post apply to all of them as well?
  10. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Why just the one breed?
  11. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Would you favor any law that would in retrospect prevented a death of a child? I would tell the parents that I believe the individual dog should be put down, and the owners held liable. I would tell them that legislation that simply bans one dog breed arbitrarily doesn’t really address the issue.
  12. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Rottweilers? Dobermans? Akita? Chow? Huskies? German shepherds? Mastiffs? Springer spaniel? The actual list seems not to include many dogs that have killed humans. Why not just cut off the issue at the pass and eliminate all dogs over a certain size? Or all dogs?
  13. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Sure in the 80’s and 90’s. But recognized later. But does that address the point? If new breeds can be developed to skirt the legislation then the legislation still does not address the issue. Further other dogs not on the banned have and continue to fatally attacked humans.
  14. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    Yet fireworks are more dangerous than kazoos. Your logic would call for banning fireworks too.
  15. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    That doesn’t really address any of my questions or statements. That other dog breeds have been “banned” doesn’t impact whether banning is reasonable, or the best way to address the issue. In fact, that the list needs to be expanded seems to indicate that the list didn’t solve the issue in the...
  16. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    That definitely seems on the track for better thought regulation than an outright ban.
  17. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    But to ban something merely because it can be said to be “more dangerous to humans” than something else, seems very shortsighted.
  18. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    You have quoted a website that is designed to profit off dog attacks, “protect” society from the “danger” of certain dogs, or both. I hope you can see how this is biased. Regarding the research which the website quoted, @Stevicus addressed this well already.
  19. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    While I think that dogs and guns can be differentiated, especially in the U.S., is banning a dog breed the most effective, efficient, and moral solution. There can be regulation without an outright ban.
  20. Curious George

    Bully XL ban

    And I imagine that the worst owners will continue to own the largest and most dangerous dogs available. So why not just head off future incidents and ban all large powerful dogs?
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