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  1. JamesP
    Violent parenting afflicts 9 out of 10 babies. You'd think there'd be an outcry. It's got terrible long term consequences.
  2. JamesP
    Let's say I have $4,000 and you want it. You could tell me that you want to borrow it and you'll pay me back in a year. I agree to those terms. A year passes and you haven't paid me back. When I ask for the money, you just silently fade away. There was nothing I misunderstood about that exchange. You were looking to steal money and chose to do it through manipulation and lying. If I had the foreknowledge of your intent to never pay me back, then I may well have chosen differently, but I don't think you can say that I didn't understand the exchange.
  3. JamesP
    Yeah, because the question really doesn't make much sense (it's a bit like asking if bleeding from an open wound is aggressive), it's far more interesting to me why this is important to Andrew.
  4. JamesP
    Why is this question important to you?
  5. JamesP
    I'm pretty sure that his essay is not going to advance the application of the non-aggression principle towards universality.
  6. JamesP
    Just an observation. Dawkins did not make an argument. Saying that something is immoral without providing the argument puts it in the category of "not even wrong," as he would say. I haven't read the rest of this thread to comment on whether anyone has come up with a valid argument to support this conclusion, but I know that Dawkins didn't provide one.
  7. JamesP
    NaA
  8. JamesP
    Ah yes, this is a new policy for new accounts. After your account is bumped to full member status, you get the chance to update your profile pic. Please let us know if you have any further questions.
  9. JamesP
    What is it like to be on the receiving end of a lecture?
  10. JamesP
    Hey, I'm really sorry to hear about your friendship situation blowing up. Looking back, were there any warning signs that things might go so badly for you? That's one hell of an investment to make, to move to a new city.
  11. JamesP
    That still doesn't answer why it's immature (or less mature, really, that's just splitting hairs) to use the technology of the chat room, which doesn't have a real life analogue. Regarding your posts ending up in nirvana, some, but not all, will give you more than adequate feedback before you go on an ignore list.
  12. JamesP
    I don't follow. Why is ignoring without using the technology to automatically screen that person's chats mature?
  13. JamesP
    This was intentional, not a misconfiguration. The chat does not work with SSL. The next version of the board fixes this. You will have to change your security settings or wait for the upgrade (I do not have a date for this).
  14. JamesP
    I laughed out loud.
  15. JamesP
    Have you ever asked your son if there's anything you could do better as a dad? What does he like, what does he not like, is there anything he doesn't understand, or has trouble talking about with you? You could also ask your wife about what she thinks of your parenting and husband-ing.
  16. JamesP
    I did figure out how this artifact reappeared. The hook that shows the donator badges was getting reset. I think I've fixed it for good.
  17. JamesP
    Donators have access to reputation votes.
  18. JamesP
    I have no opinion on whether airline passengers and identification should be have anything to do with each other. I think that's probably the wrong question. I think it's also not right to make this about gender.
  19. JamesP
    Not "banned" because they are transgender, but "banned" because they have evidently made choices to change their appearance and no longer have representative identification. Making it about transgender is at least jumping to a conclusion and at worst manipulating the emotions of some very sensitive and highly triggered people. I seriously doubt that the policy is targeted at them, though it clearly does affect some of them.
  20. JamesP
    And that people portray Israel (as a nation) as the battered victim.
  21. JamesP
    I wouldn't skate past the fact that Adam dismissed what Stef (what other "thought leaders" were discussing Robin's depression and alimony payments?) was saying without providing so much as a counterargument. Adam was also putting forward his speculations as factual, which should raise all kinds of alarm bells. You can't even say that what Adam did was "calling out." To call somebody out, don't you actually have to say something about how they were wrong? And don't you actually have to specify them by name?
  22. JamesP
    That's not an argument.
  23. JamesP
    Who's going to stay home? How much money do you have set aside? Why are you talking about emigrating?
  24. JamesP
    What have you been doing to prepare to be parents?
  25. JamesP
    Part of the guidelines of this board are that you don't make accusations of people without evidence. I haven't seen MMX2010 be abusive towards you. I've seen him be quite skeptical, which is not abusive in and of itself. I've also seen MMX2010 ask you directly for evidence, which you responded to by airily re-dismissing him by quoting yourself. I am requesting that you provide this evidence or withdraw your claim that he was abusive. If you will do neither, I would request you not post here. You made it public. So let's have it.
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