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To even attempt to answer this question requires the answer to a more difficult question: what is a person?

Taking human processes as entirely physical, it might seem that we are the collection of...

Sure, but beauty sells because there is a market for it and markets come from an initial desire. I'll agree that established markets will remain in strength for some time, but imagine if a new...

If physical beauty is to some degree (not entirely) socially determined (as would seem reasonable), then should society try to promote a conception of physical beauty that is the most physically...

The Lib Dem vote will collapse, but for Labour it's harder to tell. At the moment Labour are still polling above the Conservatives (http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/) but few people seem to want Ed...

If the West Lothian question is resolved (at least temporarily) by having only English MPs vote on laws that effect England, would this effectively make non-English MPs ineligible for many cabinet...

I think that Scotland would be able to join the EU, but it would probably have to do so as a new member state. This means that it would be required to eventually adopt the Euro. The only way around...

As a side issue, I thought I'd bring up two important questions that I think have straightforward answers:

Firstly, the West Lothian question. It would seem to me that the obvious and simplest...

2 points from Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal. Not a bad start for Leicester.

Arsenal really need another striker of some sort soon. Sanogo seemed less threating than Bendtner ever was.

I don't think we'll see any further defections until the result of the by-election, which Carswell would have to win to encourage any more Tory MPs to jump ship. Even then, I can only see 1-2...

Princip was a fool used by the Black Hand and part of one of the most hilariously incompetent yet successful assassinations in history.

However, making him fully culpable for the start of WW1 is...

I find that secular humanism either says very little or is very naive.

Pretty much everyone agrees with the idea of increasing human happiness and most would agree with a no-harm principle of...

In some cases, sure. Let's look at food. We need food to survive, so clearly there's an important existential desire here for food. However, food also stimulates and can give pleasure. If one...

Anything that leads to self-improvement or the improvement of society. Prostitution is largely about satisfying the short term desire of the next client rather than making any long term achievement,...

Prostitution should not be illegal. Legalised, it becomes safer for those it employs since they can be protected more easily by the state from abuse. However, it must be made sure that those...

Farage himself economically is to the right of most of the Conservative party. However, he must surely realise that UKIP will never become a notable Westminster presence being more to the right than...

Pure scientific progress: First half
Technological progress: Second half

In terms of radical scientific ideas, the first half of the 20th century saw a complete shift in our understanding of the...

Farage can run for MP in 2015, as he attempted this in 2010 when he was also an MEP (against John Bercow for Buckingham I believe). Furthermore, he has stated he intends to stand for somewhere...

I agree that exposure to a broader picture of humanity has made it more likely for people to think differently than they would otherwise. Education can allow local culture to be overridden, although...

That may be so and I would hope my point would be obvious, however I think it is necessary to remind us of this to prevent ourselves becoming too arrogant in these modern times. Some seem to see the...

It has been suggested that many people in the developed world (especially western Europe) are less religious due to increasing levels of education. As a person who is not religious, I find education...

Some fiction does contain mathematics as a backdrop or plot element, but often people consider mathematics to be in a separate world to everything else or just as a mundane tool to achieve a task,...

Err technically, Brazil won the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and the 2002 World Cup in South Korea/Japan (which I believe are the only two other cases if you count the Americas as one continent). Other...

I think the point Sharpe is making is that the success of the Premier League has often been at the detriment of the national team, since teams in the Premier League are generally fielding fewer...

Firstly, I find it strange how the two finalists from the last tournament end up in the same group. I know it's done by seeding based upon FIFA ranking and Netherlands lost every game in Euro 2012....

This is the actual point here. All this talk of what makes a "Christian country" entirely misses the point of why Cameron said it. It's a line to try and bring back a part of the traditional...

I don't know why people are in a flap about those who think Britain is a Christian country or those who think it isn't a Christian country. It all depends on how you measure "Christian country". ...

As you may know, in most western European countries there is typically a public holiday for Good Friday and/or Easter Monday. I think the US is the anomaly in this regard and I wonder where this...

I thought that Clegg did better in round 2, so I'm surprised the polling says otherwise.

In any case, both leaders refocused the questions on what they wanted to talk about.
I thought Clegg was...

Um, as far as I've been aware (ie when I was at school several years ago) sex education in the UK is about not passing on STIs and having unwanted pregnancies rather than informing children how to...

What good came out of destroying the twin towers?

The USA is still number 1 for CO2 emissions per capita. The USA emits twice as much CO2 per person as many industrialised, western nations, so there is definitely room for improvement on the USA's...

And how is Atheism a bad thing exactly? I don't think religion really makes a difference on how moral or immoral people are.



Gays aren't everywhere and still, how is this bad? I'd rather have...

Violence against women should be treated the same as violence against men - only acceptable in self-defence.

Revenge is a base human instinct that must be overcome (in most circumstances). It should only be used as a deterrent to stop that person doing such an act again.

Nothing wrong with suicide, people should have the right to kill themselves. I personally would never consider it due to the fact that I think that this is your only life so you may as well try and...

Civilzation 4: Beyond the Sword - It looks like a much better expansion than Warlords was and it also adds a World War 2 scenario.

Starcraft 2 - From what I've seen, it looks very good and unlike...

Only if there is a greater enemy or threat than other humans in the future. So maybe, but if it were to happen it would be in the far future.

It does have some strategy but I'll agree it's mostly tactics. However, so are many other games that are often labelled "RTS". What makes Company of Heroes so special in this particular case?

1- You cast spells with well, spells. After all what more is a staff than a long wooden pole?
2- I disagree. In Diablo 2 there is a big variation in health between, for example, the sorceress...

I don't think bio-fuels are a good idea as the fuels still produce pollutants (not just CO2). I think that Maglev could be a good idea for long-distance transport (eg across europe). Electricity...