Recent content by forbidden fruit

Now THAT'S philosophy!! hehe Oh absolutely. There's a big difference between recognising and acknowledging differences between individuals, and beating some person to a pulp, or worse, because of them. I guess what I'm wondering is if it stems back to a time when people who looked...

Definitely. And in terms of racial issues I believe it's usually a factor. But fear and dislike can also both be learned reactions to a situation or subject though. I guess you could argue; if fear of the unknown, and unfamiliar, is innate in humans, wouldn't this make racism a default...

I've often wondered to what extent 'natural competetion' between races plays in racism. I mean something innate, that should you ask them, they may not be able to understand it themselves... as opposed to just disliking, or fearing, the unfamiliar. From my experience, you get any group of...

There's a difference between jokes between friends, and racial slurs. Say a middle aged stranger of colour/race 'x', smoking a pipe and wearing an expensive suit approached you in the street and asked exactly the same question? I can't speak for you of course, but I would imagine you'd have...

But don't the laws that govern such things generally take into account intent and action first and foremost? These are the things that any person, doing good, or bad, can control... the outcomes of these actions are beyond anyone's control. Can you not also fully intend to kill someone, and...

You'd also have to question why they used slave labour to begin with... Wouldn't it also be good for their economy to pay their own citizens to work the mines? Perhaps they needed fast cash to pay for, say, services that would benefit the population to the extent of deeming "mine fodder"...

Yes I fear death. My belief is; it is the end of everything I have ever known and can possibly understand, & it is either the commencement of a completely unknown level of existence, or, it is oblivion... & both these possibilities scare me. That said, there are things that scare me more than...

Did you stop to think that if teachers were better paid, the job itself would attract a higher calibre of mind?

For many it's where the novelty & electricity wears off in a relationship that many people take to mean there's no love or attraction anymore. So many people chase that buzz.. but it is never going to last. When you're young, and you have all the time in the world to settle down at your...

Totally agree, parents have & should exercise that duty. The responsibility in this area in part also falls to cinemas & movie retailers to refuse entry, sale or hire to a child who's obviously underage according to the rating of the flick, and is not accompanied by an adult (where...

Could this represent something of a natural hardwired failsafe against inbreeding, or promotion of genetic diversification, where the higher rate of homosexual males acts like a very effective, walking, contraceptive device? Meaning, perhaps it's an almost irrelevant hangover, (irrelevant in...

Up until a few years ago, I was one of those you mentioned who viewed suicide as pure selfishness... something for the weak willed... leaving their misery at the feet of those who loved them. While I'm not all for it these days, I can better understand how when all hope, & hope of happiness...

Widely accepted in religious circles, or academic? Or both?

That's true. Also makes me wonder whether the guidelines are out of step with the values of the community in which the ratings are used. Violence, to me, should attract ratings on a par with, or possibly steeper than, sexual content. That said, it would be an extremely difficult job to...

I would say they're perfectly happy being attracted to the "wrong" sex. So where is the fault? Reproductive capability? Should ANYONES worth be measured by this? Incidentally, gay & lesbian people can still have as good a chance at reproduction as heterosexual folk through the wonders of...