The concept of universal human rights is nonsense.
A right can be given by a law-making body.
The absence of a law against something means that it is a right until a law against it is introduced.
That is all a right amounts to. Everything else described as 'my right' is a want.
As more...
I have discovered actual, real, verifiable scientific evidence that anthropogenic climate change is fake. Now all I need is for someone to publish my findings and enough funding to carry out further research.
If only there were some kind of massively wealthy industry which would benefit from...
So who is excusing whom in this fight?
And the obvious questions:
If one of the participants had been white, if the other one had been, if one had been female etc...
I was a Christian when I started studying for my theology degree at the age of nineteen. By the time I graduated, at the age of twenty-two, I had lost my faith and become an agnostic. I became an atheist around the age of twenty-three.
One detail I noticed was that even Christians who were...
Speaker A: "You must agree that my Electric-mango status is Four."
Sceptic: "What does 'Electric-mango status' mean?"
Speaker A: "I can't define it, but you must agree that it is Four."
Speaker B: "I am a woman."
Sceptic: "What do you mean by 'woman'?"
Speaker B: "I can't define it, but you...
These are my entry requirements for anyone on the left or right of politics to be taken seriously.
Left-wingers: Agree that men cannot become women and women cannot become men.
Right-wingers: Agree that anthropogenic climate change is real.
Fair requirements or not?
Three headteachers have different attitudes towards aggressive behaviour:
Headteacher A is from the nineteen thirties. His view is this:
"When persuasion fails, smack. Use the cane, the birch, the ruler or just the flat of your hand, but people need to know that they will be physically hurt if...
Now that the attempted-murder case relating to the shooting of Sasha Johnson has been dropped, how likely is it that riots will follow?
More information on the latest in the story can be found here:
Sasha Johnson shooting: Case against four men collapses
How likely would riots be at this point...
If you had no other choice but the following two, which would you opt for?
Option 1: Live for the next forty years in pre-industrial conditions.
Option 2: Live for the next forty years in the industrial world, but never allowing your carbon footprint to exceed that of the average person your...
In which jobs are men paid more than women for doing absolutely exactly the same work?
I am not asking about jobs where men are paid more on average than women.
I am not asking about jobs where men and women do similar, but not 100% identical, jobs.
I am not asking about different things men...
Department X is funded by the taxpayer.
For Department X to continue to exist, it needs to give clear answers to the following questions:
What could you still manage to do if your budget was halved?
What could you do if your budget was doubled?
What could you do if your budget was increased...
The cynical interpretation of the term 'Bible-based' would be this:
I have a set of Bible verses which I use as a starting point. I have created a world-view out of these. I use this world-view as a back story to all the other parts of the Bible in order to show that the whole Bible teaches...
How will social media, university student unions and the world of celebrities treat Whoopi Goldberg over the next twelve months, in view of her holocaust remarks?
Will Whoopi get off lightly compared with J.K. Rowling's comments on 'people who menstruate'?
In general elections you remember, how often did you get the impression that it was about voting out or voting against a candidate, rather than voting someone in or keeping them in office?
For me, I thought that the UK in 1983 was about keeping Michael Foot out, more than keeping Margaret...
Some people who look at the freewill-versus-foreknowledge debate come down firmly on the side that humans possess freewill and that, as a result, no divine being has perfect foreknowledge.
For those of you who are theists, what, if anything, is wrong with the suggestion that there is a God who...
The accusation:
Christians rely on a large number of poor-quality arguments in order to support the claim that Jesus of Nazareth is the messiah predicted in the Tanakh/Old Testament. Their position could best be summed up in the cliché "Never mind the quality. Feel the width."
The challenge...
Premise: The European Court of Human Rights is correct in finding Russia guilty of violating the human rights of three women on the grounds that Russia did not prevent their husbands from committing acts of domestic violence against them, even though the Russian police had received complaints...
Does anybody here know how many episodes of the American teen drama Beverly Hills were eventually made?
I saw it once and it was up to episode ninety thousand two hundred and ten. Did it ever end?