On Feb 5, 2015, landmark wrote:

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On Feb 4, 2015, rockwall wrote:
As we have also established that when you say Wrong!, you're talking about yourself, not the person you're commenting on.

Yes, I admitted I was wrong. I thought when you quoted a study to back up your statement, you considered it truthful, and you assumed that people who read it would take it as truthful. I was wrong. You have correctly disabused me of that notion. I stand corrected. In the future, I will understand that such statements are not to be taken as actual arguments, but mere comments about the existence of a study, truthful or not. Who knows, perhaps one day you will actually address the issue. Stranger things have happened.

On Feb 5, 2015, S2000magician wrote:
But if you were born in a different country, on a different continent, into a different culture, would "you" still be "you"?

On Feb 5, 2015, rockwall wrote:

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On Feb 5, 2015, landmark wrote:

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On Feb 4, 2015, rockwall wrote:
As we have also established that when you say Wrong!, you're talking about yourself, not the person you're commenting on.

Yes, I admitted I was wrong. I thought when you quoted a study to back up your statement, you considered it truthful, and you assumed that people who read it would take it as truthful. I was wrong. You have correctly disabused me of that notion. I stand corrected. In the future, I will understand that such statements are not to be taken as actual arguments, but mere comments about the existence of a study, truthful or not. Who knows, perhaps one day you will actually address the issue. Stranger things have happened.

Ah landmark. You know, you're just making yourself look a bit stupid. Nowhere did I say that I didn't find the studies un-truthful. All I was doing was refuting YOUR statement that there were NO studies. If you had simply said, at the beginning, "Yes, there are studies that show conservatives are more generous than liberals but there are also studies that disagree", we wouldn't be having a problem. But what you said, was that my statement that there were studies that showed that was wrong. So, in the future, what you SHOULD do is take my statement about studies to be 1. that they exist and 2. that I agree with them. If you agree that they exist, don't say they don't. If you don't find them to be true, then say so.

On Feb 4, 2015, silvercup wrote:
The problem is money.

On Feb 3, 2015, NYCTwister wrote:

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On Feb 3, 2015, mastermindreader wrote:

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No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.

- John Donne

Very nice.

So by using that analogy when a murderer or child molester dies, humanity is the lesser for their death?

On Feb 3, 2015, NYCTwister wrote:

Do we owe humanity, the global society, something since we take part of it? I
MO, yes by initiating no violence

On Feb 5, 2015, rockwall wrote:
(Search magiclaurie here at the Café) I did (I think that'll help) and it didn't .