What should we do about these lunatics?

Watch How An offended Group Of Students Reacts To The Claim That Men And Women Are Different
http://youtu.be/MkHWLUPPIOI

AC,
I just watched it; unbelievable

They also vote.!!

I too took a look at those videos, and if it was up to me I'd expel everyone of those disruptive students for their loutish behaviour. That 'girl' attired in black who was screaming abuse at someone for calling her a woman - what else do you call her? I have a few ideas, not socially acceptable, I'm sure.

Dear David F.,

«Being executed does not guarantee a person a fresh start.»

I didn't make such claim - I used the phrase "new start" in connection to wrongly convicted innocent people, not the guilty.

«Death is oblivion.»

Oblivion just means that one receives no input from the world (including their inner mental world), just like in a coma or in deep dreamless sleep. I'm not sure that it's such a terrible loss...

«It is the end of everything for that person.»

Nothing ever started for persons, thus nothing can end. Persons are just objects, like the table or the clock on the wall.

«It is the end for the organism whatever species the organism is part of.»

Sure, no argument and no problem there.

«Death is the end for humans, cats and cockroaches.»

Indeed, this is uncontroversial, but what's the big deal about it? Humans, cats and cockroaches are merely physical objects, dead matter to begin with.

«Some people have a belief in superstitions which soothe their fear of death by creating a fiction that there is something for them after death.»

The biggest superstition is the belief that we are born only once.
There is no evidence for it whatsoever - and statistical evidence against it.

If one puts on their socks, then there is a certain probability that they will never put on socks again, that it is the last time they do - but it is small.
If one brushes their teeth, then there is a certain probability that they will never brush their teeth again, that it is the last time they do - but it is small.
(...nowadays we can say the same about marriages...)

Once upon a time, 90-something years ago, you somehow got hooked up with a human body. We may not understand how it happened, but it did. To claim positively that this was the one and only time you got hooked up with a body, the first and the last, that even though you did it once you can never ever do it again, is very irrational and unscientific.

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«Our end is final.»

That is a tautology, but there is no evidence whatsoever that the death of our body brings about our end.

«We can make of our life what we can.»

So is it justifiable in your view to throw people in jail for the rest of their dear life which you claim to be the only?

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Dear Paul,

«p/s Yuyutsu, would you support the notion that a person convicted of a serious offence involving a life sentence be given the option of euthanasia as an alternative?»

I would, but better still, I rather have this be the default because actively asking for euthanasia equals suicide. Suppose society still insists on punishing people, then rather let anyone who prefers to instead be incarcerated, say so.

Dear AC,

I watched the video. It was pretty patched together, of at least two separate incidents and not much in the way of context.

Most of the video was a talk being presented by GOP candidate Jeff Younger. Through his efforts the Texas governor withdrew funding for a centre providing support services for trangender children. He also talked the governor into sending child services around to homes where there were transgender children running the line it was child abuse.

His own divorce was particularly ugly and he had been constantly breaking court rulings about a gag order both he and his ex wife were under.

Nasty piece of work.