Recent content by Scottty

So where is this guy supposed to live then? Or these? Or this cute creature? Or this big ugly one? Or this humble creature?

I think the blame for this lies on the modern anarcho-tyrannical state. Since time immemorial, a woman's safety has been the protection of a male guardian: her father, or other relatives, or her husband. This man had the full right to use all necessary violence to ensure her safety. But under...

I had not known that Pinkerton was a Jewish surname...

If we don't, we should.

Lol no, no, they were not. If you were part of a group of people traveling between towns in India, the thugs would join your party and pretend to be civilized - right up to the point where the group stopped for the night somewhere, and they would strangle you in your sleep or cut your throat...

To quote Adrian Plass: Civilization is a mutual agreement to all pretend that we are not savages. Modernity tends to forget that.

Rights without responsibilities. Power without accountability. Bruce Jenner killing someone in a road accident and getting off completely on the homicide charges by claiming to be a woman.

"All men are created equal" in its original context, was simply a rejection of the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. No, no one is born having the right to rule over others, or tax them for his or her own profit. It was never a claim that all men are equally intelligent, or virtuous, or...

Nature is fighting back! That's good to know. :cool: Whether this is just random mutation or something more directed, I am very happy to read about this. @Iconoclast

We are, and we do. If the CO2 concentration falls below something like 150 parts per million, plants will stop being able to grow, and all complex life on Earth would die out. It was down to about 200ppm before the Industrial Revolution - now it's up to 400ppm or so. But we can do better. If...

Turks and Indonesians are not only racially and culturally not Arabs, they also have been under Islamic rule for less long, historically. Thus the inherent Arabisation that Islam brings is less far advanced.