Recent content by TheOtherDaniel

In this frantically politically correct world, there has been a loss of the term "discriminating" as being something positive. If someone had discriminating tastes, it was meant as a comment that they were discerning and of sound judgement. A certain amount of healthy discrimination happens...

There's certainly a trend to making games that are fun by being immersive, or having a great narrative (which is great) or visually more appealing than the old 8-bit days (which is not necessarilly good). But are they too easy? Much as I'd like to say that a game that's too easy won't hold...

Animals have a supportable reason for killing - you're a threat, or you look like you could be something to eat. There are only 2 reasons that people act good: cops or conscience. You either enforce a punishment for undesirable or wrong behaviour, or a person needs to know that something is...

Planescape: Torment. Starting an RPG with the concept there would be no swords, no gods, and that the point was not to stay alive was a brilliant start,and it kept getting better from there.

As opposed to being "bad"? The laws that we have, we have because of Christian principles, and they form the foundation of the legal system. All men are equal in the eyes of the law, as they are before their maker, regardless of wealth or status. Bears killing deers is not bad, but people...

Your explanation still doesn't explain your reference to the separation of church and state, which, as mentioned before, was to protect people's beliefs and way of life i.e. the church, rather than to stop people protesting as a result of their beliefs. Section 116 of the Asutralian Constitution...

Agreed. :-)

Oops, double post. *Deleted*

Well, we've certainly come a long way in this thread. Hmm, what was the original point? OK, there are people who believe that homosexuality is something that is wrong, and they're entitled to that opinion. They're not entitled to bully people, or commit hate crimes, but thinking that someone is...

An interesting admission, considering that quite a number of legislative changes have been made based on studies, which have been poorly done, in ways that a junior researcher can spot; poorly matched control groups, poor follow up, poor statistical analysis. A breakdown of these studies used...

At present then there are no statistics that we can refer to where bullying of homosexuals does not occur, which is tragic. Bullying is evil, whatever the reason, even if you don't agree with the way of life of people. A friend of mine in uni, who was (and still is) a lesbian, really struggled...

You don't have to - you KNOW they have an agenda, and a bias. I have one, as do the other posters on this thread. Why would you expect one side of a debate to not have an agenda or bias?!?

I presumed you mentioned it as evidence, which is fair enough as were are having an informed discussion. I'll wait for your data with baited breath. You can name call as much as you like. And insinuate that other organisations insinuate that homosexuals are "naturally" pedophiles. It's a crock...

Interesting. So legalising gay marriage hasn't helped? Although there HAS been a concurrent increase in the divorce rate, and the number of children born outside wedlock. Maybe unrelated, maybe not. In any case, the data is accurate and well collected, but the opinion of the author is just...

Oh, and there's the Massachusetts reearch, which I note ShadowsOfHope didn't refer to, perhaps as I didn't feel the need to include a link? http://www.doe.mass.edu/cnp/hprograms/yrbs/ This is a government website, with their data. It shows the issues mentioned in my original post, and that...