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My main argument against plastic surgery wasn't that it was untruthful or unethical or whatever, but simply that it was ugly.

But now the techniques have vastly improved, and can be very subtle....

Oh please.

You say we are slaves because we're coerced into doing things. Slavery is not an institution which coerces people into doing things, it's an institution which denies people any value...

I like to think people get to talk shit about their country after they can properly use their language, not before.

It's been pointed out earlier in the thread that western countries and The...

Has anyone watched an interview of this guy? He has the stare of a dead bovine. Everything about him breathes idiocy.

A moron can still make great music, I suppose, but in this case he fails...

Webster 1913, Google and dictionary.com agree that brasier is an acceptable variation. :)I agree, but I wasn't talking about WWII, I was talking about the Nazi regime. That's my very point. No matter...

gendanken: If I have misunderstood you I sincerely apologize and plead that you set me straight. You say I don't address your point. What is it?There has clearly been a misunderstanding. I said...

gendanken.

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*sigh*

And you still haven't said anything to rationally attack my arguments. All that you've done is throw examples of the fact that...

Correct. However my point remains.I think that's an excellent point. It's only part of the answer of course, social interactions are so complex.Of course. What I mean is that many people who fancy...

gendanken: One word : Nice.

No, wait, a few more words : you haven't said anything which even attempts to disprove my points. But I guess that if I want something to register with you I should add...

I don't really see what your point is, but let me convey an other anecdote :

The guy who washes my windows (see, I'm an elitist asshole, so I have someone do that for me) once came with his...

Englisch be mine sekond langage.

Fantastic website! Please keep telling me that beer is an immoral beverage, that having the initials "B.J." is an outrage, yes Master, whip me, I love it, oh yeah...

An other of those...

I have little to add to that excellent post, except that the moving pictures are just that, yes, but in the same way that literature and poetry are just words words words.

My point is that those...

First of all, you have to set something straight. Are you talking about smart people in general or nerds specifically? (and even then how do you define a nerd?)

Tendencially, smart people are an...

I'm not a veteran, but if I had to design small arms, I would look at reliability and affordability first. What's the best-selling machinegun in the world? The H&K G-36? The FAMAS? Nope, it's the AK....

In all of history, for better or for worse, there has always been an elite, be it culturally, politically or economically, and this elite has always been resented and misunderstood by the rest.
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He conquered Europe basically because he had no choice.

He was a ruler born from the French Revolution and of the new world order that it tried to establish. The other European regimes, all of...

Yes and no.

An ad affects little about what I think of the product. If it's a product that I care about, then I will have read reviews and come to know facts about that product, which will be what...

PC has nothing to do with this.

Comparing PCs with consoles is a pointless argument because they aren't the same thing at all.

As far as X-Box vs. PS2 vs. GameCube is concerned, I think right...

Hmm, the debate has drifted.

Atheist, or Gottlos in German, means without God. Not one without God because he doesn't believe, but one who excludes God off his life because he doesn't believe in...

The goal of science is to observe facts and determine laws from them. Until a law is undisputable, it remains a theory.

As far as evolution is concerned, facts have been observed, however...

During two novels, Yoshikawa Eiji recounts the quest of Miyamoto Musashi to become an actual human being. Thus, trying to find out what makes a man a man is no mean feat.

I find that man, as...

This is as far as the point as could be.

The problem is not if it has been sentient or not! Or if it is, or if it will be.

The problem is what species it is. The best way to determine a species...

Actually, there is reincarnation also in the West.

Some Greek philosophers in the lineage of Plato believed that the immortal soul, incapable of reaching the World of Ideas, but not too stained to...

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Yes, third post, but I have many things to say on this matter, and many thoughts too long held back.

This post is adressed to the non-Christians who are going to see that.

The reason...