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Yuki_51 said...

  • Yuki_51 at 01:00 PM JST - 21st April

    I was commenting on the faulty logic

    I don't see anything faulty about suggesting that behavior that, over incredibly long spans of time, exhibits itself in a pretty much constant percentage of the population is by definition normal. It is not normal for all people, but it is indeed normal,…

    Posted in Are you in favor of same-sex marriages? at 01:00 PM JST - 21st April

  • Yuki_51 at 11:54 AM JST - 21st April

    And by "normal", I mean that there is a rather constant percentage of the population, since time immemorial, that tends to prefer same-sex relations. I would say that makes it pretty normal, yes. It's a minority, but its consistency, in spite of really draconian attempts to extinguish it, would suggest…

    Posted in Are you in favor of same-sex marriages? at 11:54 AM JST - 21st April

  • Yuki_51 at 07:56 AM JST - 21st April

    To the people who say homosexuality is not "normal" human behavior:

    Then why has it persisted since the beginning of time, in approximately the same percentage of the population, from culture to culture, race to race, rich to poor. What always has been, and never goes away, seems pretty "normal"…

    Posted in Are you in favor of same-sex marriages? at 07:56 AM JST - 21st April

  • Yuki_51 at 04:47 PM JST - 15th April

    LostinNagoya ...

    How can you say its teaching is superb. There is no excuse for killing someone because they no longer believe something that they used to believe. No excuse. None. Zero.

    This is not projection, and it is not any minor point. It is a glaring deficiency of any…

    Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 04:47 PM JST - 15th April

  • Yuki_51 at 01:09 PM JST - 15th April

    Muchakucha is correct.

    And any religion that thinks it is okay to kill apostates is a religion that is terribly insecure about its validity. If you possess ultimate truth, you don't have to kill anyone for deciding otherwise. This is THE NUMBER ONE most illustrative point about Islam. It is…

    Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 01:09 PM JST - 15th April

  • Yuki_51 at 06:33 AM JST - 15th April

    Often, a disaster has to come in order to discredit hysterical religious fervor that assumes political power. Look at Japan's embrace of state Shinto. (Actually mostly an imposed embrace from the top down, but nonetheless a situation where a fundamentalist supernatural belief system attained political power.) Ultimately, that resulted in…

    Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 06:33 AM JST - 15th April

  • Yuki_51 at 07:36 AM JST - 14th April

    "say they want to live" should have been "say they want to leave".

    Sorry.

    Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 07:36 AM JST - 14th April

  • Yuki_51 at 07:34 AM JST - 14th April

    They can coexist peacefully, and probably will, eventually. But we should expect it to take centuries. After all, it took centuries for Christianity to calm down and become largely secular, a process that isn't even yet completely finished. And the Christians had to go through their own internecine wars, which…

    Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 07:34 AM JST - 14th April

  • Yuki_51 at 12:05 PM JST - 12th April

    I think it's not a fear of open minds, but a fear of change. Ignorantly and fearfully, authorities feel that Japanese culture will somehow change in some major and negative way if a significant number of people start smoking pot. I believe this is highly unlikely. I actually don't think…

    Posted in Japan going to pot: Celebrity busts and student smokers have authorities in a tizz at 12:05 PM JST - 12th April

  • Yuki_51 at 10:28 AM JST - 12th April

    Japanese authorities are making exactly the same mistakes American authorities made, and the results will undoubtedly be the same.

    For starters, they grossly, horribly, overstate the problem. They make claims about usage that are simply rubbish. Inevitably, a small group of experimenters will come to understand the scope of official…

    Posted in Japan going to pot: Celebrity busts and student smokers have authorities in a tizz at 10:28 AM JST - 12th April

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