1) When does consciousness begin? How do we define it? Does consciousness define life?

2) Is it possible for a zygote/embryo/fetus to regret not being born?

This is awesome. Pure awesome.

We need a big tent on the right if we plan to take back the Senate and White House!

Absolutely I support Christie. He blazes his own trail and thinks for himself instead of toeing the line—definitely presidential material.

"We're wasting cake and paper!"

—Patton Oswalt, from his bit, You Are Only Allowed 20 Birthdays

1) Clinton ordered it and Obama went along.

Greg, in any of the cases you've mentioned in your article has anyone sued? Is taking the issues to court the best way to affect change?

The VIDEO is now up!

Thank you for posting that link.

I think it's important to point out that 1):

Saying that Keynes’ economic philosophy was based on him being childless would be like saying that Ferguson’s own economic philosophy is based on him being rich and famous and therefore not caring about the plight of poor unemployed people.

and 2) Keynes and his wife had at least one miscarriage, so even if the argument that gay people don't have the ability to care about the long-term future held water (which it doesn't), in this case he clearly did want to have children.

You can say any individual piece of art stinks all you want. All I'm saying is that art, categorically speaking, has no aim. Saying it has no end objective in mind doesn't take away your right to judge it.

Your classroom example strikes me as trying to force your own conception of art on others. Maybe rather than asking which one is better you might ask which one is more beautiful, coherent, intelligent, visceral, intentional, balanced, complex, playful, evocative, or, yes, even moral.

The ultimate goal of morality is to maximize the good and minimize the bad. Art, however, has no end goal. Individual art pieces might aim to elicit a certain emotion, thought, or concept, but art itself has no such agenda. It's aimless by definition, and to say that the goal of art as a whole is to maximize beauty or coherency is, well, probably wrong, and doesn't acknowledge a vast amount of very good work like that of Joseph Beuys or Andy Warhol.

I believe it's a sin to mix fibers like wool and linen together, because I believe in the Bible (Deuteronomy).

I fully support a legislative bill to outlaw any such mixing. Mollie, let's do this, one sin at a time until there's full Biblical law, and universal polyester track suits.

Insofar as Jason Collins' coming out encourages LGBT youth to be more comfortable with who they are and not kill themselves (their rates are many times that of their straight peers), I think the objective definition of hero applies.

It's a false dichotomy because they can both be heroes (in different ways). A forced choice like that is a very basic fallacy of argument.

I have no idea what you're trying to communicate.

It's about more than sexual jollies. It's a battle for visibility, and in turn, rights.

Straw man.