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Illumination's Debates
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Children's welfare should take legal priority over their parents' freedom of religion
Imagine you are a small child and as a special treat for your birthday your mummy and daddy take you to the zoo to see all the lovely animals locked up in their dirty, cramped cages. You are having a wonderful time there and you have laughed at the funny little monkeys and gasped at the great big elephants and you have even been allowed to stroke the bunny rabbits. Then your mummy asks you if you would like to see the lions and you reply that you would. So, you all set off in the direction of...
Animal Abuse
animal abuse is a grotesque outlet for social frustration due to the fact that the animal will do anything for the human to be happy....
The death of god.
First to start i offer the idea of nihilism. The idea that life has no meaning. "A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence. He lives for a little while and then again comes an equally long period when he must exist no more" From Arthur Schopenhauer. This is just one of the many examples of the way Schopenhauer's writing can put things in perspective. Like a fickle flam, our existence is small and insignificant in...
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Arguments for this Topic: ∙Cloning has helped scientists to learn about genetic disorders. With doing experiments they understand the genetics of creation of animals organs. By doing this they will be able to give animal organs and transplant them to people in need. With so many organs we could produce then no one would have to die. Rather then having to want on the list for months on an organ. ∙If a woman is enable to have a baby then they could clone into multiple zygote...
Animal rights is an unjustified ethical doctrine.
I thank my opponent for accepting this debate - I've been wanting to have this debate with my opponent specifically for awhile, so I hope this turns out well. To put it simply, it seems that Charlie here is one of the more prominent PETA advocates on this website, with his slew of PETA debates. Since it seems to be quite evident that he is in favor of PETA, one can easily draw the conclusion that he is also an animal right's activist - after all, if he isn't then he'd most likely be a hypocri...
The chicken comes before the egg
Rules: No getting anal over definitions of chicken and egg, and this applies only to the folowing classic problem: What came first, the chicken or the egg? And also, we're talking sctrictly non-religious. Since whoever will be pro has the burden of proof, he can go first. Good luck!...
Philosophy: The Nature of Consciousness
In a conversation via profile comments, Geo and I touched upon the philosopher Alan Watts. In particular, Geo professed to share Watt's claims about the nature of consciousness. The following is a quote of which he supported (do note that all these come from my profile, but after awhile will be unaccessible if more comments are made [comments that are pushed down one's wall far enough will be unaccessible, it seems]). If you doubt the validity of any of these quotes, then refer to Geo to be reas...