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What are your thoughts on The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Having trouble coming up with an adequate follow-up question. I posted the original question for two main reasons (OK, three if you count I love these types of discussions for various reasons): The first reason we touched on: personal vs. someone else. The second reason is the problem with being quick to judge another person's actions without first looking at your own--I.e. what you would do if you substitute their X for your Y. I voted "no" to my own question and accept that others might make my same decision at my expense. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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The honey bee is a great example!
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I agree, and thank you for the thread bump.
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That was partially my goal of starting this thread. Exactly! It is why I was careful in how I phrased the question... Will post a follow-up question soon (in a hurry right now). Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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What the fuck? We just started Season One about three weeks ago. Due to the freezing cold and a recovering surgery, we had some time on our hands and decided to give the series a whirl. It has been great--largely predictable--but fun & super-funny... Season Four started as a royal disappointment--a big, fat bore...until the ninth or 10th episode when it got GOOD. Cut to the finale: I am pissed. WAY pissed. I hope Season Five brings back the old Dexter. I hate to be Janey-hate-changey, but I miss when Dexter let the law be the law and only when the law was clearly unjust would he gather evidence, stalk, and kill the Scotty-free. It has been a while since Dexter let the law have a shot at handling things first. I feel like a groupie whose favorite alternative band just went mainstream pop w/r/t to the Season Four finale. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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It's all fucking gross. "Fake bones" are just the scratching the obvious surface. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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A gay marriage civil rights trial will begin Monday in California challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Many of my friends and family--largely conservative--consider gay marriage a non-issue and wonder why I care so much with so many other "more important" things going on in our nation right now. I think Theodore Olson--one of the two attorneys in the case hoping to overturn the Prop 8 amendment--represents my sentiments perfectly in the January 18th issue of Newsweek: The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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My sentiment exactly. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Recently, in a restaurant of a culinary institute, I had the wild pacific salmon with a fruit couscous. The salmon was great--my favorite fish. But, the fruit couscous (they gave it a more fancy name) was incredible. I cannot remember eating anything so surprisingly delicious. SO good.
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This is an entirely different discussion--one for the Anti-Whaling thread. You are welcome to bring it there, but I think you'll find the discussion short-lived as I agree with you. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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The difference is what is personal to you. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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We agree. If you play with fire... Perps in both scenarios played. To be clear, in my second scenario, the whaling ship personnel are the perps. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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The question and examples provided pertain/s to human vs. animal and importance of protecting one vs. another. I tried really hard to make the topic question clear and unambiguous, and still one person wonders the point and another asks if I would save my dog or another. SO SC. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Actually, they target shark finning ships, too. And I pointed out the silliness of the cute argument when I responded to kallend's poacher example. Two possible scenarios: A man injures a perpetrator to protect his dog. A perpetrator is injured by a man to save a whale. I do not see why whale-guy gets less sympathy because he did not keep the whale in a tank in his backyard, name it Shamu and swim with it daily. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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It seems your idea of what makes a bond is a lot more limited than mine. That aside, I do not see how a bond/pet/name make the situations any different w/r/t importance of protection. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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I wonder how many people who would shoot the poacher in this situation, still would if the "insert other species here" were a solenodon. Why shouldn't rodents of unusual size get the same prelation? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Can you explain the difference between your example, and one involving illegal whalers, and the lives of the whales the Sea Shepherd crew wants to protect? I am assuming, of course, you are not talking about killing the perpetrator to protect your dog; that would be far worse than anything the Sea Shepherd organization ever did for a whale. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Will you provide an example of a situation involving both a human and an animal in which you would be more concerned with the protection of the animal? Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Please explain. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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It is effective in exposing illegal activities. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society asserts they have "gone on to end the careers of 9 illegal whaling vessels, saving thousands of whales." Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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I do not know if I fit the mold of whom you are looking for answers (been in a solid, loving relationship with my best friend for 9.5 years), but I sext him now and then. --Never with photos. But, I used to have one of those mini-stickly-film cameras... It was fun because the photos were small and printed right away--so very easy to sneak pics of naughty parts into a pocket or a wallet. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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I have been following the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for a little while now. I had never seen the Animal Planet series Whale Wars until a few months ago when I read the Sea Shepherd collision with the Yushin Maru was caught on film while they were filming the series. I had this avatar for a while during that time as a silent show of support and changed it back early this morning. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.
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Trouble Finding Information: Investing in Rainforest for Cures
PLFXpert replied to PLFXpert's topic in The Bonfire
I heard in the background TV noise a while ago about something along the lines of sponsoring or investing in a tree or several trees in a particular rainforest and potentially profiting from any new medicines/cures discovered from that particular tree/area. I wish I could be more specific, but by the time I was able to pay full attention the subject-matter had changed. I have tried Googling for more info, and am coming up empty-handed. Perhaps I heard incorrectly. If anyone is familiar with what I might be referring to and/or can help me find more information, I would greatly appreciate it. -
It was fun at first when Dexter was shut-off to her and uninterested. Thereafter it became a little silly/predictable. Lila is fun trouble for a certain type of guy, but not Dexter. We are a little further into it now, but it still seems like a silly jaded-storyline for the writers to have given the average viewer. Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.