Recent content by Yechezkel

I almost replied to this thread with a long-winded message about how wrong the first post is. As I was typing it, though, I got the urge to play Black version some more. So I'm going to go do that instead. Deal with it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this thread could be nominated for the "Worst Understanding of Genetics" award for the year. For some reason people think of incest as this magical birth defect generator instead of a simple recombination of somewhat similar genes. Honestly if your family doesn't have any...

There are multiple interpretations of quantum physics out there: some which say yes, some which say no. Some are certainly better supported than others, but I'm not going to sit here and pretend I actually understand quantum physics well enough to create a meaningful reply regarding the topic...

It's not so much a matter of "still," as Neopaganism in general is a lot more neo than pagan. Wicca, for example, sometimes claims to be thousands of years old, but was actually invented in the 1950s by a guy named Gerald. How much of the religion is meant to be functional and how much is meant...

TF2 medigun. ...I am okay with this.

...they don't let you keep your guns when you quit though, right? So presumably in such a situation, whoever is left after all the decent soldiers defect would be the ones with the heavy weapons.

Uh. I'm pro-firearms, for among others the exact reasons you just mentioned. I'm just explaining the theory to you, since you didn't seem to understand it.

How much, precisely, do you know about urban warfare? Mountain survival? Could you even feed yourself for a month without access to your local supermarket? Third world police-action is extremely difficult because important resources such as gasoline and food are largely unregulated and widely...

Second-strike potential, basically. The theory is that if you're being harassed by a guy with a knife and a cop strolls up with a gun, he'll never actually have to fire it. The kill potential of firearms is assessed under this theory to be so much greater than that of other weapons that the...

Yeah, I'm for guns and even I don't get this. The US military has stealth fighters, self-propelled artillery, and trucks that shoot pain [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Active_Denial_System]. What exactly does anybody think their made-before-1985 machine pistol is going to do...

And that's really all that needs to be said. That one person should be able to legally force another person over whom they do not have power of attorney to undertake a medical procedure they neither need nor desire is ridiculous at best and tremendously dangerous at worst.

Keeps the servers noob free. You know. As long as the aforementioned noobs haven't already paid ten dollars at the Mann Co. store. Which the new F2P players are much more likely to do than the old guard. Due to not having had to pay a first sale price for the game. ...what is this addon for...

That isn't objectively true. What constitutes personhood is extremely ill-defined. I find it deeply disturbing that you feel comfortable making that philosophical decision for every single person within your country.

...uh. No. That's not even remotely close to correct. Even if it was, and I can't stress enough that it isn't, what about the people whom medical science cannot save but still may have months or years left in their lives? By the time they begin the final process of dying, it's very often too...

Everyone in this thread realises that organ harvesting occurs while the person from whom the harvesting is being done is still alive, correct? While organs from the stiffs that are still warm can be used, the quality thereof is much easier to assure when harvesting from the merely brain-dead or...