1. British Airways takes beef off the menu to avoid offending Hindus

Comment #178138 by Chris C on May 10, 2008 at 3:12 pm

They did a good thing for a bad reason.

2. Christopher Hitchens Debates Timothy Jackson

Comment #123268 by Chris C on February 6, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Jackson's claim, that Hitchens' assertion that King was not a Christian is the same move as if Jackson asserted Hitchens must be a Christian, shows just how sloppy his thought process is.

Hitchens' claim is one of falsification, which he uses by ruling out a cause based on the absence of effects; Jackson's claim is one of verification, which he uses by inferring a cause based on its effects, which is the fallacy of affirming the consequent.

They are NOT "the same move."

To show what the two moves look like in logical terms, here is Hitchens':

((P > Q) iff (¬Q > ¬P))

And here is the move Jackson tries to equate it to:

((P > Q) iff (Q > P))

One move works, the other is fallacious. They are certainly not the same; Jackson is a moron for trying it.

3. Sam Harris debate with Rabbi David Wolpe

Comment #107620 by Chris C on January 4, 2008 at 8:43 pm

This guy is a moron.

4. An Open Letter to Richard Dawkins

Comment #96627 by Chris C on December 10, 2007 at 7:14 pm

"Atheistic ideology"

lol

5. All the mistakes of the godly are merely metaphor

Comment #57879 by Chris C on July 21, 2007 at 9:05 pm

"It also makes one spectulate about what great ethical developments in the future will occur, that when they look back on our time in 2007, they'll ask the same questions: "how could they not realise that??" Some possible candidates: gay marriage, public nudity, global egalitarianism relative to today, 20 hour or less working weeks, longevity research, internet-based democratic voting on regular issues, a working global government and a transcendence of nationalism, vegetarianism, legality of any adult sexual relations e.g. incest, polygamy, etc, decriminalisation of drug addiction, incentives for genetic screening of inheritable diseases, etc."

I'm just curious, why do you think vegetarianism needs to be transcended?