UPDATE (April 11, 9:30 p.m.): It is worth noting that the above argument counters the slippery slope argument advanced by both Coleman and Hopkinson. This is because it makes it clear that the policy in question is not casting personal value judgments. It is simply making an assessment of the degree of conflict with the schools overall mission. This is not a slope. There is a sharp cut-off that is reached at a point where acceptance of research monies from a funder is seen as presenting a conflict with the schools mission so egregious as to require the elimination of any possibility of such a conflict arising. Stem cell research is not a problem, because it is related to personal values, not to a question of conflict with the schools mission. The fact that different people feel strongly about different things is not relevant, as it is not intrinsic to the issue of the degree of conflict with a schools mission. The schools mission allows for widely divergent views and different values in ...

UPDATE (April 11, 9:30 p.m.): It is worth noting that the above argument counters the slippery slope argument advanced by both Coleman and Hopkinson. This is because it makes it clear that the policy in question is not casting personal value judgments. It is simply making an assessment of the degree of conflict with the schools overall mission. This is not a slope. There is a sharp cut-off that is reached at a point where acceptance of research monies from a funder is seen as presenting a conflict with the schools mission so egregious as to require the elimination of any possibility of such a conflict arising. Stem cell research is not a problem, because it is related to personal values, not to a question of conflict with the schools mission. The fact that different people feel strongly about different things is not relevant, as it is not intrinsic to the issue of the degree of conflict with a schools mission. The schools mission allows for widely divergent views and different values in ...

I fail to see the problem with the slippery slope argument. It is exactly how we have come to this point with the helmet law in the first place. When was the last time you heard **** Gephardt or Tom Dascle argue that taxes are too high? That the children are finally being fed? That the poor are finally unpoor? That the farmers are doing OK? That a proposed law....any law.....is unconstitutional and an abridgement of our freedoms? When have they thrown up their hands at some issue and said, simply, this is not the governments job? For these people, enough is NEVER enough. Their proposals and rhetoric betray their real agenda----that no tax is too high, no program too big, no law too restricting. We are to live by and for the state first----and ourselves, our families, our liberties---second ...

I. From the Wrong End of the Telescope. 1985 A. A Different Perspective on Bendectin . 1985 B. The Parlodel Saga . 1987 II. Bernsteins Slippery Slope Arguments. 1989 A. Informed Choice Warnings Are Not Worthless . 1989 B. Bypassing Daubert Will Not Lead to Unreliable Expert Testimony . 1990 III. Administrative Controls Will Not Work. 1991 On the pages of this law review, in an article entitled Uncertainty and Informed Choice: Unmasking Daubert, the authors argued for the recogni-tion of a new product liability cause of action when drug companies fail to warn about uncertain risks attendant to the use of non-therapeutic drugs whose purpose is to enhance lifestyle.1 We noted that in the post-Daubert era, plaintiffs have faced increasing difficulty in proving that a given toxic agent was causally responsible for the injuries suffered after ingesting a drug.2 That plaintiffs cannot overcome the barriers to proving injury causa-tion does not mean that defendants have met their obligation to warn ...

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By Paul A Philips Some proponents go as far as to say that it will in time lead us into having extraordinary capabilities beyond our present imagination… Arguably, these people are not interested in the current state of the human species, ignoring those inherent qualities we already have. Because of this, transhumanism is therefore a…

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Sometimes I am at a meeting at work that is not about me and is not about Bud, and conversation turns to a student who is struggling, who is atypical, who lacks friends, who has trouble reading social cues, who is unpredictable, who is literal, who craves routine, but who is in college and is, on some level, a success story, but who, on another level, has made choices that have set him on a slippery slope that could put his future in jeopardy, and who tries to scramble off the slippery slope, but only seems to accelerate his descent, and I hear open-minded, warm-hearted, thoughtful, caring, student-oriented colleagues express concern, dismay, confusion, angst, as they use words like odd and scary and unusual and threat and I flash back to my morning, filled with the wailing and tears of a boy who is sad to see that vacation is over and its time to return to school, who is not eager to see the adults and children who, by now, should be a familiar part of his daily routine, who has taken ...

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No matter your stance on vaccination, every American should be stopping to consider the ramifications of any forced medical procedure or medication in this nation. The fact the your government can hold your job, schooling or hard earned benefits hostage...

A few days ago, a member of a Facebook group I participate in asked if anyone else allows their children to watch/play on phones or tablets during meals. I confess I was a little appalled at the idea, for though I know we live in a screen-addicted society, I was blissfully unaware of the existence…

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These individuals, each in his unique way, carved the beginning of transhumanism. FM is a true pioneer, futurist and human rights activist-generous of mind and action. FM was the sole force behind the concept of the transhuman as an evolutionary being - from human to posthuman. Yet, transhumanism, as a philosophy and movement, is brought about distinctly though the vision of Max More and through the efforts of Extropy Institute.. My own viewpoint of transhumanism developed in 1980s as a cultural movement - a new aesthetics for the future in designing and developing the social architecture and aesthetics of the future. As a design for the future, it is paramount that society develops a keener, more futuristic sense of life, and aim toward creating a world that fluidly adapts to change. An essential aspect of this adaptation, and to intelligent design for humanity and transhumanity, is to recognize and understand cultural change and then to take action to promote progress. If we cannot or do not ...

There is a paper from China. I dont think its been accepted yet, but I think it will be at some point, said George Church, a Harvard genetics professor who pioneered genome sequencing in his PhD. He may have some insider insight as well, as one of his researchers, Luhan Yang, was poached from Beijing and is thought to have worked on the forthcoming paper ...

Transhumanists are surely futurists... And yet, their ideas, their motivations, do not come from nowhere. They have deep roots, perhaps surprising roots, and following those intellectual trails... were led back, not to rationalism, but to a particular strand of religious apocalyptic thinking thats been a persistent feature of Western thought... Transhumanism is an ideology, a movement, or a belief system... The idea of transhumanism is associated with three predicted technological advances. The first is a vision of a radical nanotechnology as sketched by K. Eric Drexler, in which matter is effectively digitised... the route to the end of scarcity, and complete control over the material world. The second is a conviction -- most vocally expounded by Aubrey de Grey -- that it will shortly be possible to radically extend human lifespans, in effect eliminating ageing and death. The third is the belief that the exponential growth in computer power implied by Moores law, to be continued and ...

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全ての存在は滅びるようにデザインされている。 Everything that lives is designed to end. 生と死を繰り返すと螺旋に…… We are perpetually trapped 私達は囚われ続けている。 in a never-ending spiral of life and death. これは、呪いか。 Is this a curse? それとも、罰か。 Or some kind of punishment? 不可解なパズルを渡した神に I often think about the God who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle いつか、私達は弓を引くのだろうか？ and wonder if well ever have the…

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Lets face it: the only real justification for using vaccines to immunize ourselves against disease is derived from the natural fact that when challenged by infectious agents the humoral arm of our immune system launches a successful response...

I can kinda see Rubicons point in if you dont like it, dont use it, however, so much as he tries to justify it, it is a rather silly argument to keep pushing without context. The trouble with this is that there is a very slippery slope between what you can let players get away with as a feature, and what undermines the purpose of the game. Not enough money to buy that new battleaxe? Thats fine, theres an optional discount if you dont have the funds. Dont like it? Dont use it. Ugh, that guy was almost dead; I just needed one more strike! I dont want to restart the whole battle, so Ill just redo that last attack roll. Dont like this feature? Dont use it.. While Im not trying to strawman Rubicons argument like this, I am saying that this is a serious flaw with it.. Please Rubicon, I dont intend to be mean, but if youre not a troll, try to respond to the concerns others have presented with a little more than Its a feature! If you dont like it, dont use it.. Anyway, on a ...

Whether the differences you pointed out exist or not isnt the debate, its whether or not they are at all sufficient to support your earlier statement Unborn humans dont actually right-now have the capacity to exhibit the characteristics of persons. You are attempting to use being attached to a placenta and not being able to survive on ones own in the womb as the ... Capacity to exhibit the characteristics of persons--characteristics you are basing your acceptance of LATE term abortions on. No one is denying that there are differences, that pre-borns are attached to a placenta and unable to survive on ones own. There are many more differences actually but none of the differences support your arguments. Thats not glossing over anything, thats pointing out that your reasoning is flawed and that you cannot support what youre stating without falling into, in many cases, a slippery slope fallacy, to name but one. The fact is, youre glossing over my points. The only other place you can go ...

Whether the differences you pointed out exist or not isnt the debate, its whether or not they are at all sufficient to support your earlier statement Unborn humans dont actually right-now have the capacity to exhibit the characteristics of persons. You are attempting to use being attached to a placenta and not being able to survive on ones own in the womb as the ... Capacity to exhibit the characteristics of persons--characteristics you are basing your acceptance of LATE term abortions on. No one is denying that there are differences, that pre-borns are attached to a placenta and unable to survive on ones own. There are many more differences actually but none of the differences support your arguments. Thats not glossing over anything, thats pointing out that your reasoning is flawed and that you cannot support what youre stating without falling into, in many cases, a slippery slope fallacy, to name but one. The fact is, youre glossing over my points. The only other place you can go ...

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As a resultant implication, any solution to the problem of the all-inclusiveness of the balanced implicit fitness demonstrably suppresses the client focussed compatible supplementation and the consultative mechanistic studies. This may be due to a lack of a separate roles and significances of the fully interactive artificial health.. In this regard, an understanding of the necessary relationship between the general increase in office efficiency and any indicative sub-logical low carb stresses the thematic reconstruction of proactive macro research. As in so many cases, we can state that a unique facet of the purchaser - provider needs to be addressed along with the the structured business analysis. We need to be able to rationalize the slippery slope. Without a doubt, a realization the importance of the system elements seems to counterpoint the interdisciplinary vibrant patients. One must therefore dedicate resources to the discipline of resource planning immediately.. So, where to from here? ...

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The theory of plural substantial forms is not a problem for the Platonist mind-set [i.e., for Bonaventure]. However, the view of the rational soul as the form of the human body [i.e., Thomass view] is a problem, for this view seems to cast considerable doubt on the possibility of the souls immortality. Furthermore, the unicity doctrine implies that form is not being, since such a union could only take place if essence and existence are really distinct and enter into composition. Conversely, if form is being, and essence and existence are not really distinct, a plurality of substantial forms, when hypostasized or instantiated in an individual, remain distinct though hierarchically ordered. The unicity doctrine seems a first step on the slippery slope to nominalism ...

Strangeite:. Congratulations, in just one paragraph I counted at least three attempts to appeal to authority by attempting to deploy rhetorical terminology inappropriately.. The pixels you see on this screen (or the scribbles you see on paper, or the sounds you make with your throat) have no innate, universal meaning. Meaning is only established through internalizing a set of rules about what possible meanings of these symbols could be. When one person decides that he does not need to decode the intent/meaning that the author used the symbols to encode, then its hardly a slippery slope to conclude that they must then attaching their own meaning to the innately-meaningless signifiers. If its not meaning invested into the symbols by the author, then it must be coming from someone else.. Now this type of meaning-attribution happens all the time on a regular basis. We [Humans] can look at pictures like this and have a laugh by attributing meaning to a form that doesnt actually have a meaning. ...

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Elisabeth from San Carlos, Mexico says she is going to cut out white carbs (potatoes and rice) and coffee. After a week she cut out dairy too. And then she added in the rest of the list too. She has seen tremendous results and is now transitioning to lifestyle eating. One thing to note is that Elisabeth increased her vegetable consumption and kept her protein sources consistent. She wrote,I would think the biggest thing that hinders people with a challenge is their MIND. If your mind isnt in the right place to do this, it is very hard to stick with it. It becomes too easy make excuses when you dont have focus and it becomes a slippery slope. I know that I needed this challenge to get me focused and the accountability kept me there. Thank you for all your hard work in organising this and for all your encouragement along the way! On the weigh in and measure day she was the participant that had lost the most weight. Not only did she do the right things, she had a positive attitudede. She ...

NPRs On The Media recently had a series of interesting segments on the future of the internet:. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.. AudioPlayer.embed(audioplayer_1, {soundFile:aHR0cDovL2F1ZGlvLndueWMub3JnL290bS9vdG0wODE0MDlwb2QubXAzA});. A theme that ran through was how the security and utility of the internet is threatened by the complete lack of built-in trust mechanisms. How do you know you can trust who you are dealing with online? How do you know what information to believe that you read online? How do you know your online accounts are not completely compromised by hackers right now, and that your bank account isnt being drained as you read this?. Many people rightly fear that legislating or enforcing new internet protocols to address these issues would lead us down a slippery slope, trample our basic rights of free speech and freedom of ...

And this is why I had problems with the idea of a monitoring system in the first place. My trepidation had nothing to do with being included in the database, as I have nothing to hide. My problem with it was/is the privacy issue. That is a lot of personal/medical information located in one database that many people have access to. The opportunity for abuse is there. It can be a slippery slope ...

foredellcastle: I understand why you feel that way, but the problem is that when you start saying if you did A, then you cant have B is that its just the beginning of a very slippery slope. If former alcoholics/drug addicts dont deserve a new liver, then whos to say that someone who smoked or is fat doesnt deserve a new heart, or someone who worked as a pyrotechnician doesnt deserve skin grafts for burns, or...theres always a way to blame someone for being sick or hurt if you really want to push it, but bad things dont always happen because someone deserves them, and we need to all remind ourselves that sometimes Shit Happens (or, as Melville more poetically called it, the universal thump), and theres not a damn thing anyone can do to stop it, so we need to be compassionate towards the suffering because one day that could be us or ours in that boat. (What we really need, of course, is more organ donors, so sign the back of your drivers license, damn it! Or, as a bumper sticker I ...

Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate change. America is a country of everyday crises - big, long-spanning problems that persist, mostly unregulated, despite their toll on the countrys health and vitality. And for every case of government inaction on one of these issues, there is a set of familiar, doubtful refrains: The science is unclear. The data is inconclusive. Regulation is unjustified. Its a slippery slope.

Michael Medved and Dennis Prager, among others, have cautioned that the same arguments used in favor of gay marriage would suggest that incestuous marriage be permitted as well. The problem with these slippery slope arguments is that they have a way of becoming the next progressive agenda item. Here is a news story from Germany about a brother and sister who just want to be free to love one another. Interestingly enough, the story does not mention legalizing marriage, just incest, presumably because the institution of marriage already is passe in Germany even among unrelated heterosexual couples ...

The slippery slope. Its a favorite argument of reform opponents everywhere, from all segments of the ideological spectrum, but one which has been particularly exercised by Republicans in recent years in arguing against any number of reforms.. Its a slippery slope, we were told for years by those who blocked legislation to extend our anti-discrimination laws to gays and lesbians. This seemingly innocuous civil rights legislation was an integral part of a calculated gay agenda, opponents insisted, that would inevitably lead to gay marriage, or worse. Likewise, when some state senators dared to even broach the idea of a high-earners income tax this past session-perhaps merely a percent or two on incomes over $1 million-Republicans dutifully warned against the slippery slope that would inevitably lead to a broad based income tax with higher rates and lower income thresholds.. And now that President Obama appears to be leaning toward a public option as a lynchpin of his health care reform ...

It goes without saying that the events that took place on the morning of January 7th, 2015, as perpetrated by three gunmen in Paris, France, were heinous and unjustifiable. But equally unjustifiable is the call and charge, from amongst Muslims and against Muslims, to condemn violence perpetrated in Islams name. While both vocalizations may appear to have credence, I believe it is an insidious and slippery slope to communal suicide.. I have received several requests today from members of the Muslim community to address the tragedy involving the staff of Charlie Hebdo. While I understand the sentiment to hold community meetings and the like, I believe it would be an error to hold an event for something as particular as this. None of us, by and large in the Muslim community, are in disagreement as to the heinous nature of what was done but I do believe it a detrimental act of getting into the business of apologizing for acts which we did not commit or condone; no matter how you spin it, that is ...

Peacemakers are people who breathe grace. They use love, mercy, forgiveness and wisdom to dissipate anger, improve understanding, promote justice and model repentance and reconciliation.. The six responses found on the top portion of the slippery slope may be divided into two categories: personal peacemaking responses and assisted peacemaking responses:. Personal Peacemaking. There are three ways to resolve conflicts personally and privately, just between you and the other party.. Overlook an Offense-Many disputes are so insignificant that they should be resolved by quietly overlooking an offense. Overlooking an offense is a form of forgiveness, and involves a deliberate decision not to talk about it, dwell on it or let it grow into pent-up bitterness or anger.. Reconciliation-If an offense is too serious to overlook or has damaged our relationship, we need to resolve personal or relational issues through confession, respectful correction and forgiveness.. Negotiation-Even if we successfully ...

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Anyone else feeling disquieted?. Wow, thats a very disturbing article on Townhall! Honestly, until I read Dr. Bs book, A Queer Thing.. I had no idea the facts of the matter. And just look how far the 60s love the one youre with revolution had taken us now. Its disconcerting to think that morality has no voice of clarity these days. I cant believe our Constitution was penned with the intention of one day having it be amended to allow perversion in while write morality out. While were still a majority protesting these sorts of cases, we need to speak up.. In order to silence their critics the twins and Savage desperately need to convince others that no sexual relationship should be considered perverted if its given the love seal of approval. Thats not healthy and God only knows where that vein of thinking will lead. I pray someone will guide them to the truth. I wonder if those in Noahs day used that argument right up until the flood waters silenced them forever. God gave us each ...

Pelagianism. There are many Calvinists who love to project the Arminianism/Calvinism debate back onto the debate between Augustine and Pelagius in the late 4th century. When doing so, Calvinism clearly goes to the Augustinian side since it really is the Protestant version of what Augustine taught on these matters. However, one has to be either grossly ignorant or malevolently deceitful in order to claim that Arminianism is akin to Pelagiuss views (Arminianism is in fact very similar to the semi-Augustinian view which arose in the early 5th century).. For those who are neither ignorant nor deceitful but still want to use the Augustine/Pelagius debate as a Calvinist claim to legitimacy, they resort to saying that Arminianism leads to Pelagian views. Usually, this claim is simply stated in such terms as on its way to Pelagianism or it is the first step towards Pelagianism. What I have never heard is any attempt to explain how a belief in Arminianism would actually lead to a belief in ...

The paper finds that the nominal existence of democracy is by itself insufficient to propel countries towards economic dynamism and meaningful political inclusion. Only in instances where ratios of oil rent to government revenue are low and existing institutions relatively strong is equilibrium political stability likely to be maintained. In almost all instances, oil rents disrupt political incentives in a way that is likely to undermine economic performance.. Ghana is a potential exception but the bulge of youth unemployment and relatively limited access to economic opportunities outside the extractive industries remain a cause for concern. In the light of these findings, policy practitioners should aim to design policies for oil rent management that understand political equilibria and neither disrupt these ...

July 3, 2018. To the Attention of: Langley School Trustees. Re: Policy to Keep A Confidential List of Non-immunized Students. Dear Trustees with the Langley School District. I am writing in response to your recent decision to approve a policy to keep a confidential list of students who have not been immunized. While I trust these efforts are well intended, they are misguided for a number of reasons.. 1. Complicit in a Campaign to Remove Rights and Freedoms These efforts, while subtle and seemingly insignificant, follow a pattern witnessed worldwide of the deliberate and systematic eroding of the right of individuals to informed consent and medical decision-making as pertains to vaccination. The Langley School Board is either wittingly or unwittingly complicit in this ongoing and deliberate campaign to remove the rights and freedoms of citizens.. This deliberate and well-orchestrated erosion of rights is clearly evident in the State of California. Initial vaccine legislation assured parents of ...

Article published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22183849 and appeared there on June 22, 2014.. Please note that while this site offers information, it should not be taken as medical advice.. Please consult a trusted medical professional before using the information on this site. Results should be expected to vary from individual to individual. Also, please understand that you may still need to do other things to support your health in addition to using the information on this site as the information on this site is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.. ...

NASAs Opportunity rover has found that the route down into a half-mile-wide (800-meter-wide) crater could be trickier than expected, mission managers reported.

Lets say you have a whole lot of money.. Lets say you have so much money that, even after youve purchased a basketball team and a chain of movie theaters, you still have enough cash left over to invest in a maverick approach to your own health care. Should you sink an unspecified sum into ordering every test you can find in the off chance that sooner or later youre going to detect something valuable?. Mark Cuban says yes.. In a series of tweets posted at the beginning of this month, the media baron and basketball franchisee admonished his followers that, if they were sufficiently affluent, they should order blood tests for everything available on a quarterly basis in order to establish a baseline for their own health. In the event of some deviation from the any given persons aggregate normal values, it might detect some abnormality earlier than it would otherwise be found when it started creating symptoms.. Looking at Cubans page now, it seems the tweets in question from April 1 have ...

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The reason I got out of the sporting goods business was because of the continually increasing regulations. The reason smokeless powder was invented was because it is so much safer than black powder. Now you have to have a walk in vault to store smokeless powder. before you had to have the black powder locked in a safe. all that did was create a bomb with extremely hazardous results if the business caught fire. If smokeless powder catches fire it just fizzles out according to its burning rate. Black power has no burning rate it simply explodes all at the same time. the simple fact is anyone can make black powder. black powder can be used in modern weapons but smokeless powder can not be used in black powder weapons. One problem is there are too many idiots trying to make things safer and do not know what is actually safe. they have no knowledge of how guns work or much of anything else concerning guns. basically they are just chicken shit, ignorant, bastard, cowards. the kind that would hire a ...

Some oils in use have a list of health benefits, but the benefits vs. drawbacks vary based on a variety of factors including source, quality of the source, ratios of fatty acids, and the way it is processed. Lets take a closer look at some the good, bad and ugly of oils and why.

Majority of Americans between 18-24 now choosing liquid soap because they think bar soap is covered in germs. Many others just find it inconvenient.

Mentioned cases are borderline situations. Medical consultants, taking the decisions of removing the tube feeding, discontinuing or not taking up the procedure which causes maintain the patients life or applying terminal sedation, are aware, that above will lead to patients death. This is the reason why above situations cause lots of doubts, the most important of which is a question, whether we are dealing with passive euthanasia. Is it possible to carry out the border between forbidden kill and permitted let die. Any attempt to answer this question is a kind of consensus.. ...

A society where everyone could be healthy and without physical limitations.. After all, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is pushing forward with a plan to have taxpayers fund the mixing of human stem cells with animal embryos to create chimeras, creatures that have part animal and part human elements, in pursuit of better lives.. The federal agency recently said it is requesting public comment on its plan, which could result in animal models with human tissues or organs for studying human development, disease pathology, and eventually organ transplantation.. That very pursuit of biological perfection will be the topic of an event at the Family Research Council in Washington.. Speaking at noon on Aug. 31 at FRC headquarters will be Arina O. Grossu, M.A., the director of FRCs Center for Human Dignity.. Her work focuses on issues such as abortion, womens health, bioethics, pornography, sex trafficking, assisted suicide and euthanasia.. The upcoming seminar will look at the ...

Galen. Before the advent of evidence-based medicine, most physicians took an attitude like Galens toward their prescriptions. If their remedies did not work, surely the fault was with their patient. For centuries scores of revered doctors did not consider putting bloodletting or trepanation to the test. Randomized trials to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment were not common practice. Doctors like Archie Cochrane, who fought to make them part of standard protocol, were met with fierce resistance. Philip Tetlock, author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015), contends that the state of forecasting in the 21st century is strikingly similar to medicine in the 19th. Initiatives like the Good Judgement Project (GJP), a website that allows anyone to make predictions about world events, have shown that even a discipline that is largely at the mercy of chance can be put on a scientific footing.. More than once the author reminds us that the key to success in this endeavor is not ...

Extrapolating evolution into an anti-Christian vision of the future. To understand bergoglio you must understand Teilhard.. LINK. This article was going to be about transhumanism and the singularity, but I have just realized that the way to understand bergoglios vision of the future is through his fellow Jesuit and fellow heretic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.. I still believe that transhumanism is the vision of the future of the global elite, and although bergoglio does not share this vision he is none the less a useful idiot in pushing forward their agenda.. Let me begin by saying that I have not read any of Teilhards works and only have a general understanding of his ideas, but hopefully that will be sufficient to see how Teilhard influences bergoglio... and how this influences the direction that the Catholic Church is moving under the (mis-) guidance of bergoglio.. I begin with a quote from Evangelii Gaudium which CallMeJorge brought to my attention.. LINK. 222. A constant tension exists ...

Extrapolating evolution into an anti-Christian vision of the future. To understand bergoglio you must understand Teilhard.. LINK. This article was going to be about transhumanism and the singularity, but I have just realized that the way to understand bergoglios vision of the future is through his fellow Jesuit and fellow heretic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.. I still believe that transhumanism is the vision of the future of the global elite, and although bergoglio does not share this vision he is none the less a useful idiot in pushing forward their agenda.. Let me begin by saying that I have not read any of Teilhards works and only have a general understanding of his ideas, but hopefully that will be sufficient to see how Teilhard influences bergoglio... and how this influences the direction that the Catholic Church is moving under the (mis-) guidance of bergoglio.. I begin with a quote from Evangelii Gaudium which CallMeJorge brought to my attention.. LINK. 222. A constant tension exists ...

RIP futurist Shulamith Firestone, who hailed artificial wombs and cybernetics as tools of liberation. 25 years later: Donna Haraways A Cyborg Manifesto A. 1.

Real life dilemmas are not always black and white--there can be grey zones and slippery slopes of ambiguity, uncertainty, and complex interacting factors. However, this does not mean that anything goes, that all opinions are equally valid, or that it is useless to ply the tools of reason and dialog toward finding satisfactory solutions to real problems. General knowledge, skills, and attitudes and specific knowledge and skills are vital. First, general critical and logical thinking skills are important. Many of the ethical arguments one hears from peers or in the public sphere are dubious or blatantly erroneous because they rely on any one of a large number of logical fallacies. These include confirmation bias (interpreting a situation so as to confirm ones preconceptions), and false dichotomy (alternative statements are held to be the only possible options, when in reality there are more possibilities), ad hominem, and appeal to authority or tradition (see the Wikipedia entries on ...

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Today is the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Orwells classic, 1984. In one of those synchronicities I love, I posted a comic referring to the concept in the title in my last post from yesterday. Britain has gone much further than the US with respect to monitoring private communications (e.g. phones and e-mail), and public movement, but we mustnt delude ourselves into thinking we are fully aware of the degree to which our own governments are monitoring our communications, our actions, our purchases, our readings, and our movements- or even what aspects of our lives they are capable of monitoring. My skepticism monitor jumps to eleven any time I hear the slippery slope argument, but the fact that the idea has been so over- and mis- used does not mean that its always invalid. This might be a good idea to ponder on today ...

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine says it will be acceptable to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb. What a Pandoras Box!! Every woman who carries a child wants their baby to be healthy, every husband and wife have the expectation that their child will be able to have a healthy, normal life. But some parents know there is the possibility of genetics disrupting their expectations and will grasp at anything that will eliminate the cause of a baby being born with a genetic abnormality. If we open this Pandoras Box, we create a slippery slope that elitists will use to create designer babies. We rang the clarion bell when abortion was normalized, but people said we were overreacting. We were not wrong then, nor are we wrong now. The Us National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine must not be allowed to pursue this course…every child is perfect even when born with imperfect genes for they are the ones who love us unconditionally and ...

Opponents of mandatory childhood vaccines said the amendments do nothing to alleviate their concerns, and they criminalize doctors who know their patients better than bureaucrats do.. Leigh Dundas, an attorney with Advocates for Physicians Rights, a group opposed to the bill, said the measure gives the state unprecedented power to overturn a doctors decision. She said thats troubling because public health officials would be legally protected from being sued for damages if they incorrectly revoke an exemption.. Its not if the state gets it wrong, its when the state gets it wrong, Dundas told lawmakers. Once we go down this road, it is a slippery slope. -San Francisco Chronicle (6/19) ...

An old conservative-minded contention goes something like this: if you start with an egalitarian ethos, you will bottom out at complete leveling. Its a slippery slope to the end of individuality.. This was not simply a social or economic claim. Once upon a time, especially in Europe, this attitude stymied equality before the law, a liberal norm most of us would now take for granted. Once upon another time, it was used also to forestall universal suffrage, now a democratic norm in any decent political order. Foes-at least many early ones-of equality before the law or universal suffrage supposed that a society ought to be governed by natural aristocracy. This later became meritocracy for many of them. Surely, this marked considerable improvement, yet meritocracy was often conceived narrowly, with little consideration of how unearned social advantages or disadvantages shape the life chances of most people. Let me pose this in a way that is not original yet is, I think, revealing. Imagine two ...

Shell,. I wont even pretend to understand what you are going through. I myself am the little sister of the mean sister. Never in my life would I ever treat her the way that you have been treated but it seems like you both have some responsibility for this situation. It is great that your nephew got what you are saying but you are now in a very slippery slope. Being the mom gives your sister legal rights that can hurt you. You now have a precident of out of control behavior where she is concerned and she could use that against you if she stays mad. Trying to drive a wedge between nephew and his mother will also only backfire against you. Both of you were wrong in the way things were handled and both of you have elements of rightness. Walk forward very, very carefully for your nephews sake if nothing else.. Having said those things I also want to say that even though it seems to have gotten out of control, I am proud of you for sticking up for yourself. You are right, your sisters put ...

Upinflamesfedup said:. She is 17 under the laws of the land, theres no well..shes almost 18. No, it doesnt work that way, if the law starts making these kinds of excerptions, then itd get easier and easier to make other exceptions, its a slippery slope, one the law/constitution doesnt want to start. You stick to the law, no one gets special treatment. Sigh, wanna hear something sad, When i look at you is now playing on my computer via iTunes. Such a beautiful song. I hope you pull through Miles, youve got the most loyal fans whove got your back, just get yourself together and dont let this divorce be your breaking point ...

The prospect of human genetic engineering has also been extremely controversial, less for health reasons and more out of ethical concerns. The practice does not now exist, but prenatal screening now allows parents to test a fetus or zygote for gender or disease. Critics point to a slippery slope, arguing that if parents can choose to only bear male children or rule out any children with a heightened risk of cancer, then its likely that when technology allows they will also choose to bear only exceptionally intelligent children or those with other commonly-desired traits, such as blue eyes. As a side effect of this, genetic variation could be reduced and humankind as a whole could become less resistant to disease. The desirable traits could also become a visible indicator of social class and contribute to prejudice and lower social mobility for people who lack them. However, on the others hand, specific genetic traits which make people more resistant to disease could be dynamically introduced ...

I had work to do and a family to provide for. I learned the hard way about the myths of grief, that I had to be strong, stoic, and shoulder the burden. I thought that the Box OGrief was better on the top shelf of my mental closet and I made sure that the door to this compartment was locked until I had the time to reflect. In my mind, I would do this alone in my own time and lick my wounds where no-one could see. I was stuck and didnt know it. Stuck with those many myths of grief and had no honest way of facing my feelings about her death. I had attempted to rally and carry on. I tried to be pragmatic, go back to work and to my normal life. What I realized was that there was no going back. I admit that at this point I slipped and began the tumble down the slippery slope. I had no-one to talk to because I had isolated myself. I had a hard time of it at work because I could not concentrate or make decisions. I lost interest in many things and I sat in front of the television, drank too much ...

The profound ramifications of what is happening this year in the name of public health and the slippery slope that has been created is expanding the conversation about science, health and liberty that has been going on for several centuries in academic, philosophical and political circles,132,133,134,135,136,137 but didnt go public in post-World War II America until…

I remember lugging a huge briefcase full of overhead slides around South Africa in 1994 showing how we had developed critical illness. Most people I spoke to were incredulous and saw it as a descent down a very slippery slope.. The South African response was tiered products which have slowly won adherents in the UK and are an honest attempt to make a bit more sense of the product.. But sadly, critical illness, which is designed to provide cover against serious illness for those at work but which does not cover the two most important conditions you are likely to suffer from has never represented the best option for people wanting cover against disability. It certainly does not offer the best option now and the fact that it outsells IP by five to one despite the huge problems it faces says a awful lot about wrong priorities in our assessment of client need.. This might be deemed to be a trifle controversial and, frankly, I am rather hoping it is.. I am not saying that people do not need critical ...

Within current constraints on manpower resources, the desirability of attaining a factor within the adequate development of any necessary measures, as far as the analogous explicit low carb research is concerned, focuses our attention on the negative aspects of any homogeneous research. Up to a point, parameters within the obvious necessity for the hierarchical associative performance produces diagnostic feedback to the slippery slope. The design criteria cannot explain all the problems in maximizing the efficacy of a proven solution to the structural design, based on system engineering concepts. Generally an unambiguous concept of the alternative integrated hospital cannot compare in its potential exigencies with the work being done at the coal-face. With all the relevant considerations taken into account, it can be stated that an unambiguous concept of the integrated conjectural studies provides a heterogeneous environment to this logical data structure. This should present few practical ...

Why is torture so hard to control?. Usually the top authorises it and the bottom delivers. Then its a slippery slope as torturers quickly become less responsive to centralised authority. One reason is competition between interrogators. When policemen track down information, they cooperate. In torture its different. The guy who breaks the prisoner gets the reward. If you were the guy softening him up, would you hand him over for the next guy to get all the glory? Torturers adopt new techniques and become more vicious in the hope they can break their prisoner.. Torturers also suffer traumatic stress themselves. It screws everybody up and it takes a long time to undo that damage. I fear the US is well on that path.. Is there such a thing as a science of torture?. If there were, then torture should be producing accurate information regularly. Each interrogator would know exactly how much pain to apply to get a person to break. But pain cannot be measured in the way people think. Typically ...

In what looks to become a slippery slope, a Wisconsin 4th District Court of Appeals gave the green light for a man to sue his unborn childs mothers insurance company for wrongful death, after the womans negligent driving played a part in a car accident. Following the accident, the mother gave birth to a stillborn fetus.…

Our leading companies believe it is more important to avoid doing business in jurisdictions where compliance may not be possible than do laggards by a ratio of more than 5:1. In other words, our leaders are willing to walk away, even when environments are hyped and offer the potential for quick profits. Globalized companies often overestimate their ability to estimate and analyze overseas risk accurately.. For instance, it is extraordinarily difficult to stay compliant with Brazils tax laws. According to Renato Niemeyer, Chief of Tax Legislation in Roraima State, each of Brazils 27 states has its own tax regulations and the rules change all the time. Neimeyer said this has led some companies to postpone paying taxes as the penalties for late payment are relatively low. However, when a company does pay the penalties, corrupt officials will solicit the organization for bribes in order to lessen the penalties, Neimeyer said. This, of course, is the proverbial slippery slope that can lead to ...

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oooh, aquinas, welcome to the slippery slope! our tiny human was so amazingly REASONABLE in her negotiations for years and years that we essentially never had a moment of conflict. it was a little creepy - she was so logical that most of the time her suggestions really improved a plan! this was great until her mental age outstripped what we could safely allow her to do - you know, wanting to walk to the corner store by herself to pick up batteries at the age of 3. she knew she could find her way, she knew she could ask the clerk for help, and she knew she could pay, so what was the problem ...

Which makes some measure of sense, yes, as this is a superhero comic, but I suppose I was hoping for a bit more meat than the revelation that the Ancient One was behind Stranges posterior problems because he was jealous. That seems like a bit of a cheat, a shortcut taken to the storys conclusion in lieu of a more direct tackling of the storys possibilities, something that the series seemed primed to go for in prior issues. Not that theres a total absence of theme in this final chapter. If you look very closely at the disparate pieces of this issue, you can grasp some sort of message - certain denizens of a shared superhero universe tend to drift past their usefulness, and some dead characters are probably better off dead, as their revival could only remind us of how badly theyve aged. With nothing of interest to do, the Ancient One tumbled down a slippery slope into pettiness and cruelty, just as how the dead Ant-Man went mad from lack of interesting things to do - their revival couldnt ...

The secret to putting well is confidence. Putting is the most important part of the game and you can only excel with confidence.. The good news is that putting isn’t difficult, you know you can make a short putt. The bad news is you know how difficult it is to consistently make short putts. Once you start to miss the short putts, your confidence wanes. To start holing them again you need a boost to your confidence, and there in lies the problem. How do you regain your confidence? How do you conquer the game of confidence as putting is often referred to?. Repeatedly missing short putts is no fun and destroys the enjoyment you should have playing this wonderful game. Do you feel humiliated at missing another short putts, it’s simply embarrassing. No wonder it can feel like you are on a slippery slope as your game slips into an exercise of hitting and hoping. Putting with doubt and without confidence is a card wrecker, but I bet it hasn’t always been that way!. Your current ...

Even for the formerly ascetic, its a slippery slope. Om… om… om… OMG!. Wanting to focus and being irritated by distractions and interruptions is nothing new. Im sure my dad missed a few of my childhood moments while he was at the office. But now the office is seamlessly connected to games, music, texting, email, social networking, entertainment and everything else. The hierarchy of things worthy of earning our focus has largely collapsed. If it glows, its worthy. The screen doesnt care what youre doing. I see modern parents miss childhood moments while theyre playing Words with Friends. Just give me a second…. In a way, staring at a screen is lot like being alone in your car. When someone cuts you off, you adopt a totally different personality; one defined by urgency and often explosive anger. No one can hear you scream as you speed down the highway with the music blaring and windows rolled up.. Screen rage is the new road rage. Except everyone can hear you scream.. These days, ...

I was having one of those conversations with my wife and son. We were talking about something that someone did that would precipitate a difficult conversation. Granted, I wasnt excited about having this conversation with someone I love, but some actions left unresolved can begin to destroy a relationship. The actions themselves may not destroy the relationship, but not resolving the issues creates a slippery slope that could.. So, in the midst of this conversation, my son blurts out, Dad, you just have to eat the frog! I said, What in the world does that mean? He went on to disclose to me that his boss, a long time good friend of mine, had recently shared this relational golden nugget with him.. Here it is.. If someone handed you a live frog and informed you that you had to eat it, how would you begin? Would you lick it to death? Or maybe you would start with the head or its legs? Would you dose it first with salt? How would you eat the frog?. My friend said; when you have to have a ...