Recent content by LostInTheCosmos

Philosophy FAIL. The article is right in saying that a game's goodness exists outside the mind of the players. But by saying it only exists in the mind of the game developers is moving it from one group of people to another. Plato would argue that a game's goodness exists by itself, not...

Took the words right out of my mouth! :)

Tons of strip clubs have a no liquor policy.

Thanks Wyatt. I forgot to check my mind at the door and do my cultural sensitivity training that morning. Please forgive me if I let my uneducated religious-bias slip when talking about intergenerational love. Last thing I need is to be is accused of a thought crime.

And we have a winner. Looks like the child-porn propagandists (or "child-art photographers") have won another mind.

DOH. Merry Christmas to you too. :) Peace!

Because with the government sanctioning it and you can come by plane or car? And under government sanction, welfare dependents now have another avenue to find legal work - either become a prostitute or lose your welfare check. So the government becomes the biggest pimp of them all and can...

I don't know how it qualifies as "works." What happens is that poor women from foreign countries get "work permits" to work the brothels. It become a government-sanctioned form of exploiting the poor. Further the Netherlands is beginning to tolerate more child pornography as a result...

It used to be illegal in the US until someone said that it is a form of "Freedom of Speech."

Thank you, I really appreciate that. Then maybe we should say that conjecturing that legalizing or illegalizing Prostitution will cause "x effects" in society should be out of bounds in our discussion because that is really subject to data and interpretation. I think we both largely agree that...

Ditto. Thing is, if we discount studies and evidence presented before us, then it's just one person's belief against the other. And there can really be no intellectual intercourse at that point once we decide to ignore the evidence presented from the opposing side. I've read lots of...

That's been the reason why I've said that it shouldn't be legal. In countries where Prostitution is legal, foreign girls from really poor countries are trafficked into the country for "work" and are unable to get their way out because the Government legitimizes such activities.

What I tend to do is write my response out in something like Notepad so even if the Internet goes down when I click "Post" and it doesn't make it to the board, I still have a copy of it locally. You never asked me if mothers WANT to send their kids to war or tell them to go to jail. These...

Look at the history of US Wars from the American Revolution, the American Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression if you prefer), and the Second World War. You had mothers sending their sons to war. And as sad as it is, there are times when a parent must tell their child to turn...

So then the OP means to say that there is no good anime-style animation outside of Japan? I would contend that not to be true. I thought that the recent Robotech movie was rather well done for an American-written, Korean-animated film in anime-style. In fact, the American writers...