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Converting from one format to another is never going to add fidelity to the photograph, and that's always going to be the determining factor for me: If they're JPGs now, I'll leave them as such until...

I have passingly considered what the implications would be with regard to charitable donations after retirement: We deliberately consider our charitable donations in the context of a certain...

Indeed. Those commentators that choose to live by such assumptions must accept the logical consequences of all such assumptions, or accept that their insistence that others live in accordance with...

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Nor does ignoring the fact that US bombs have in the past killed actual babies, the living breathing kind. I don't see you volunteering to subject yourself to experiencing the handiwork of our...

One wonders why those who suggest such offensive things object to being forced to sleep one night each year in the most dangerous and squalid neighborhoods, reflections of the economic inequality...

In order for me to do so, you'd have to provide the examples as I requested earlier, the aforementioned trap, so I can provided you examples of how I'd respond to each.

You can claim whatever you...

The point wasn't for your to fall into the trap, but to realize that if you were actually held to account for what you said, your comments would fall apart.

So now you're claiming that providing...

If that were true, your perspective would hold every seat in Congress and the White House in every election since the day you were born.

Of course, you were wrong, for the reasons I outlined above.

Why are you trying to equivocate away the fact that reasonable people disagree about what you're saying? You think Snowden revealed something that should be revealed. Other people consider him a...

How did you get that from my explanation of the concentric contexts of control? The prohibition against murder is a direct reflection of one's own absolute mastery of one's own body.

The...

You've hit the nail on the head.

Some of the critics that are making a big deal of what the NSA and CIA have been doing for decades, albeit updated to today's technology, are perhaps indeed...

Similar logic can be applied to rationalize limited levels of polluting the environment ("industrial pollution sometimes only affects a local neighborhood, but collectively we all benefit"), worker...

The ultrasound isn't religious law. The legal requirement is. The medical profession calls for certain tests to be done before certain procedures, without any specific legal requirement, relying...

He may have just wanted attention.

We're in an area where the changes that are occurring seem to be making our local climate better. Our summers are becoming a bit more summery (whereas before we wouldn't be surprised to go through...

The small company I work for has recently been acquired by a large multi-national corporation. While we're not employees of that large multi-national corporation, we're receiving some of the new...

I don't, but I know it makes you feel better about your position by making such a vacuous claim. The reality is that there are wide range of perspectives within the realm of reasonableness and moral...

As I have expressed it, over that specific, other perspective. I have not expressed it as such over all other perspectives, which is what your original claim was.

I suppose, but I'm not the one...

Good thing I don't do that. I just outlined the dichotomy in another thread: On the one side is an assertion of human decency, social conscience and/or civil progress, and on the other side is an...

I don't think so. When push comes to shove, and we talk about the motivations behind the first side versus the second side, the arguments set forth by the second side are challenges to the assertion...

I think that a lot of issues these days, such as those that peggy raised, break down these days in a similar manner: On the one side is an assertion of human decency, social conscience and/or civil...

Nothing stops oppressive forces from acquiring such data at that time, nationalizing all data centers and such, etc. Thinking that keeping such data from the government now, when it could be using...

Ignoring all that nonsense you insisted on posting to stroke your own ego, I'll remind you of the points I made earlier, that you keep trying to dodge with your self-serving silliness:

Snowden is...