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  Why haven't the dems renewed the ESA?

  Now that the democrats control both houses of congress, why have they not taken any steps to renew the endangered species act?!  It is crucial that this get done before the election cycle begins and yet I have neard nothing from the democrats about making this a priority.On A teasing hint posted 2 years, 8 months ago 1 Response

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  B.S.

  For someone who posts on a website that claims to trumpet rational argumentation because the enlightenment isn't dead, you sure have a post-modern view of things. You don't want to "contradict my worldview"?  Value lines are "arbitrary"?  B.S. I say to you sir.  I'm the one taking the enlightenment view by arguing that GMO is objectively wrong, and I don't care what your worldview is, you're just plain wrong.  I'm sure that slave owners thought abolition would "invalidate many things that we take for granted (and like) about the modern world."  But they were morally wrong and so are you.On Weigh in on the question posted 3 years, 1 month ago 44 Responses

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  Fantasy

  "the notion that there is somehow some pure anadultered world out there that it is "sinful" or immoral to tamper with strikes me as so much fanasty"
  It doesn't matter what strikes you as fantasy, it is your argument that matters.  You haven't provided one, or responded to the arguments of others--you've only dismissed them.  On Weigh in on the question posted 3 years, 1 month ago 44 Responses

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  moral claim

  "Based on what moral claim do you believe that your statement rests?"
  The moral claim I base my statement is this: things which have a good or bad independent of human desires--an inherent worth--deserve respect.  The natural world has inherent worth, therefore it deserves our respect.  Respect involves not placing your desires above that of the thing with inherent worth.  Genetic engineering disrespects the natural world in putting our perceived good above the inherent good of the natural world.  Thus, is immoral.On Weigh in on the question posted 3 years, 1 month ago 44 Responses

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  GMOs

  Noone has seemed to mention the moral argument against GMOs, that it is immoral to tamper with organisms in this way.  I think there is something deeply wrong with taking a gene from one species and placing it in another.  I think that living things have a sanctity that must be respected by mankind; crossing genes in the lab violates this sanctity in a way natural gene-exchange, i.e., sexual reproduction, does not.On Weigh in on the question posted 3 years, 1 month ago 44 Responses