Originally posted by der schwarze RitterOf course I denounce anybody raping anyone else. It doesn't matter what the religion of the rapist is, or whether the victim is 'native'.
You belive that don't you? You're so morally confused that I believe that you believe that it is ok for Muslim men to rape native-born women in their own country. If not, then denounce it.
The idea that you think that I wouldn't demonstrates my point that we'll not get any intelligent arguement from you.
Who is really to blame for these hobgoblins anyway?
I could blame the media for creating mass hysteria. I could blame the typical citizen for being afraid of their own shadow and for not having enough sense to not know the difference between hype, propaganda, rhetoric and other big words they don't teach much in our schools anymore. I could blame religion which has preached the end if nigh since the beginning of time thus keeping all the believers living in perpetual fear.
Of course not doing anything about global warming and not looking for earth crossing asteroids and not regulating nuclear reactors and so on and so on is probably not a good thing either. A little caution never hurt anyone but believing the barn is perpetually on fire is just a sign of utter ignorance.
Originally posted by SpastiGovPerhaps the next hobgoblin will be in the arena of biogenetics and the like.
Ok, since the early seventies we've been told to worry about an impending Ice Age, nuclear winter, the Jupiter Effect, the China Syndrome, acid rain, the Doomsday Asteroid, the greenhouse effect, African killer bees, ozone depletion, Y2K, SARS, anthrax, global warming again, climate change and bird flu. Oh and an obesity epidemic.
Seems to be the end is ...[text shortened]...
Care to make a prediction on the next hobgoblin, once everyone is bored with global warming?
Biogenetic warfare and biogenetic cloning.
This would include a physical threat (disease warfare) and a moral threat (cloning and human alteration).
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
n.
The use of disease-producing microorganisms, toxic biological products, or organic biocides to cause death or injury to humans, animals, or plants.
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BIOETHICS
bi·o·eth·ics (b-thks)
n.
The study of the ethical and moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.
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