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benny

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  1. Not speaking of legal lethal drug injection in US prisons.
  2. I think you might mean complainant.
  3. Marijuana sounds Spanish to me and America Latina is not a model.
  4. It takes a Ph.D. to make of the most common critic, the best complaint.
  5. Politics as a show business, yes.
  6. The most common critique about capitalism is that it just cannot be regulated.
  7. The first thing to consider before legalizing THC is the capacity of the most vulnerable persons in the population to stay in control.
  8. Sauna could become a place to celebrate polygamous ssm!
  9. More and more we will have to allow for much more than the three traditional wounds inflicted on humanity's pride (Copernicus establishing that the earth was not the center of the universe, Darwin proving that mankind developed in an unbroken line from other animal species, and Freud showing that man did not have control over the most important aspects of his own mental processes).
  10. Our democracies where a simple majority allows a political party to vote laws without listening to opposition is also a kind of winner-takes-all political system.
  11. "Plural marriages" seems a contradiction in terms because marriage is a protection against what may be too exciting about sex.
  12. The criterion is not freedom per se but maximum individual (negative and positive) freedom compatible with an equal freedom for everyone else. The case has to be made to show how legalizing pot is conducive to maximizing equal freedom for every person.
  13. Take Robin Hood, he was a cruel pirate before becoming a beloved mythic figure.
  14. Stephen Jay Gould against Darwinians says new living elements appear all of a sudden as a new Order, as a structural totality. http://books.google.com/books?id=je702bo2P...=4#PRA1-PA99,M1
  15. Gossip about Molly now.
  16. An opinion is a fact for psychologists.
  17. Biologists don't have any problem explaining bullying; they have a problem with the fuzziness of reality itself (i.e. Gödel's completeness theorem and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle).
  18. It would be so cute if only humans were simple, complete and objective products of natural mechanisms, humans would not need to learn to deal then with a situation as dreadful as their own immortality. http://books.google.com/books?id=je702bo2P...=4#PRA1-PA98,M1
  19. Criminal records in the US are callings to mass murders and random killings.
  20. A puritan who starts smoking pot can do so because he is very proud of him, because he wants to show his defiance or simply because he wants to kill some physical or moral pain.
  21. George Armstrong Custer, by forcing natives to move into reserves, was an agent of biopolitics. Nothing is more important today than to move beyond biopolitics. Biopolitics is a political regime where people are exploited by not being allowed to survive outside restricted areas like schools, factories or refugee camps.
  22. Biology (but not Physics) has a naïve conception of the relationship between theories (symbolic systems) and facts (the "emptiness" of matter). By sticking to the letters written in the Genesis (another symbolic system), Christians only find a coping mechanism to this unbearable naivety.
  23. One little step at the time: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/LEGISINFO...39&List=toc
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