Recent content by Para199x

Can I hate you, just a little?

I guess I'm a little jaded, that sounds almost too utopian an ideal to actually exist. I'm jealous.

I'd then argue that (although not as severe as most other cultures, especially historical, subordination of women) if women have the final say on major decisions that men are "lesser" in that culture.

Yeah the analogy you gave left little room for anything but a victim blaming kind of statement though.

I've always thought of the vernacular use as having a dropped "for". That (statement) begs (for) the question -[question]. Then the analogy of the man walking down the alley: "He begs a mugging".

How can it have been a Matriarchy without having a leader who was female. matriarchy is a "form of social organization in which the mother or oldest female is the head of the family, and descent and relationship are reckoned through the female line; government or rule by a woman or women."

Not saying it should be, just that getting annoyed by people using a the phrase in a much more sensible manner is funny.

That's funny because "begging the question" in the logical fallacy sense is a mistranslation whereas the vernacular use is perfectly sensible.

I apologise for allowing mutual misunderstanding to go this far.

Yes you are correct I can't find a source to explain the that the description of a mechanism that causes a phenomenon is called a theory because I have no idea where to find such an elementary piece of information. As for the fact that evolution is an observed PHENOMENON a thing that HAPPENS...

You are conflating theories of evolution with the phenomenon of evolution. I'm not saying that Evolution by natural selection is not a theory. I'm saying (taking a different example where terms aren't so usually conflated) that it is a phenomenon that massive objects fall towards each other...

Actually the point is that evolution is a documented phenomenon which has been observed. Natural selection is a theory which attempts to explain it. An equivalent to your arguement would be to say that motion is a theory, it is not, it is a phenomenon which we require a theory to describe.

Actually the only doubt of the existence of evolution is among philosophy and a question of whether human perception is reliable. The only question at the time of Darwin was do we really wanna believe it's caused by natural selection (because people want to believe the universe is just). For...

Choosing not to watch something isn't censorship...

I'm actually shocked. As a HUGE fan of star trek I thought this movie was an amazing improvement over the 2009 movie. Yes the references were a bit over top but particularly the early ones which LOOKED like fobbing off the Prime Directive and the bad use of "The need of the many..." were...