Controversial views

[The Grand Nudger]

Probably because it's easier to get weed than alcohol nowadays, if you're underage.  

[Spirian]

[Mermaid]

OK this is a well sourced post about animal testing. I'll keep looking for more. If anyone finds proper rebuttals on the net, I'd be interested.

Basically, humans are too different to animals for the results to be meaningful.

http://www.peta2.com/boards/topic/33-rea...pointless/

That is patently false.

https://www.amprogress.org/animal-research
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.o...-research/

[The Grand Nudger]

Could have just posted a picture of a mouse with an ear growing on it's back. That would have been a controversial view, too...bonus.

[The Grand Nudger]

Here's mine, the human capacity and ability for violence is our single greatest asset, and most admirable trait.

[dom.donald]

Germany needs to stop being so ashamed of its history. The majority of those who perpetuated the killings are dead.

There also needs to be more memorials to German soldiers, and yes that includes units of the SS.

I have seen plenty of memorials to German soldiers in Germany. They just tend to be very sombre, heavy and depressing.

[dom.donald]

I understand what you are saying,but hear me out, suppose the photo of a person that is accused of rape is released to the press. The reasoning is that it will encourage other victims, if any, to come forward. 1.This type of reasoning can be applied with someone actually proven to be guilty but someone still only being accused? 2. I would argue otherwise, because applying this type of reasoning to someone that is still only being accused assumes the accused is guilty before proven guilty. Even if two other people come forward claiming to be the victims of the accused in question, what weight does it have on the current case? How can the other accusations have any weight on the current case?  Let's assume for a moment that the people that did come forward with further accusations really are being truthful(which actually has to be proved s separately first), this doesn't mean that in the current case the accused did rape the other party,the accused may very well have raped the other parties that came forward and not done anything to the accuser in the current case.

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1. I'm not arguing that, I don't think anybody is. If somebody was proven guilty sure, why not publish their info so that other folks can drawl justice. But I'm not sure anybody is arguing FOR that in this thread unless I've missed a post, which is likely.

2. So say, if I was accused of murder or rape, and they put my name and photo in the paper (I have not done these things) would that be assuming I'm guilty. I don't think so.

Here is why. Because a court room is not a press room. It actually matters what evidence is available and the "beyond a reasonable doubt". Sure there is the remote possibility that some ex might testify against me but I'd have confidence in the process to discredit that witness at the least bias, at the most motivated to see my guilt through vindictiveness. That's the process at work.

I might have some crap in the community because of the press coverage, but that's the on the press and the educational system and the personal responsibility of the community members themselves. Not the justice system.

I don't think that's true. Jury members are not always smart. They're not impervious to press reports, rumours and such like. These days, in many cases I have seen on TV (the irony..) the accused is pretty much guilty before the trial even beginning. I liked watching 'The Staircase' documentary series, as a great example of how the prosecution deliberately manipulate the evidence, the media and the jury to create an atmosphere of guilt, in the face of almost no direct evidence.

[dom.donald]

Taboo actively creates perversion.

almost by definition, one suspects

[Rev. Rye]

I believe the death penalty should be replaced with a system of voluntary euthanasia, parents should be licensed before they can be raised, and that Kingsman: The Secret Service was a shitty movie that somehow made the ax-crazy villain seem more sympathetic than Colin Firth's Jigsaw-Killer-in-a-bespoke-suit hero.

[Darwins Disciple]

1. I am pro Abortion. Not only late term, but if the baby was born with severe birth defects after birth, I am for early termination on the grounds the baby would not have survived in nature.

Though I would not mind if Christians choose to adopt and raise children of severe birth defects.

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2. I would like to see reparations paid to Black people for the Crimes Against Humanity committed on them (no statute of limitations).

Note: I am white, 3rd generation in US and family did not profit from slavery, however, I feel guilt by association.