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So, if another viewpoint never hurts, do you think it would be a good idea to keep the cops on speed-dial and run your daily activities past them as you do them? "Oh, hai, yeah. Officer? Officer, I just started to cross the street at a busy intersection, and had a signal to walk, but now it's...

X. People making self-referential posts.

Repercussions for "looking for loopholes?" Or repercussions for actually breaking rules? I'm sure I agree real repercussions in any system like this are necessary. In fact, that's one of the things I like most about FAF -- that post deletions and bans are visible, including the reason for it...

Use of the terms "flame" "troll" and "spam," definitionally. Contrary to popular belief, it's at least as much to do with me disliking misbehavior (that some would casually call trolling and flaming) that leads me to raise the question, as it is the desire to make sure either I know how to...

Sweet. You're talking about *me* again. In a thread about... oh yeah, crossbreed fursonas.

For me, anthropomorphic characters (including fursonas,) belong in a coherent anthropomorphic setting (maybe, in the case of fursonas, one that has interesting parallels to ours). So, for me, it's a question of what I like in some coherent imaginary world that has anthropomorphic characters in...

Yes, sorry; getting ahead. Afterlife reward (on which you predicate your answers) is only vaguely tied up with a personal god, it doesn't necessarily demand it. But I got a better question: Suppose you'd already done something you knew for sure was going to land you in hell. The blaspheming...

Well, that was the ostensible premise of the Inquisition: after all, if you can torture repentance out of somebody, better a little pain on earth and eternity in heaven, than unrepentant comfortable sin on earth and eternity in hell.

I dunno, I think that's one of those things that's potentially going to generate a lot of theological dispute. Which is why this kind of question is kind of hard if a completely unknowable scheme like heaven and hell, is hanging over your head. Personally, I like to think that if there were a...

Howabout this one: Some evil atheist holds a gun to your head and says: "Kill your son now, or ask him to seriously consider the possibility that the miracles performed by Jesus were actually the work of unclean spirits, and go ask the pastor about it." Chances are, your son's baptized and...

Objectively, I think you pretty clearly made a decision whose only consequence was whether or not you die. One person was going to die randomly regardless. Choosing to die is commonly referred to as suicide, and I thought most theists made that out to be a hell-able offense. EDIT: So, what if...

The question in the first place was that.

So, what you're trying to say is, you find decisions about using force/taking other people's lives, difficult to make, so you refuse to make those decisions? What if the proposition was, "Choose which one of these two strangers I shoot, and I'll shoot that one, and let you and the other go. If...

Draco's right, except that this isn't a good description of "philosophy." This simply isn't philosophy, it's an attempt to withhold reasoning, which is exactly the opposite of philosophy. CASE A: Real person approaches me on the street, and says: "Hi. I'm going to kill your sister unless you...

Suggest editing the OP, then. There's no mention in it that the person doing the shooting will die if he doesn't shoot. And there's no such thing as an act with no motive. So either people have to make an answer-altering assumption about the question (what their motive is) or there can be no...

The situation rests on the motive for the shooting.

"This isn't an argument! This is simple contradiction!" "No it isn't!" -Monty Python

Yeah, I don't have any idea how hard or easy it is to manually pick over a thread to split it in twain-- but I can't imagine that it's real easy. Hey. Even I think moderators should step in at some point and say: "You retards have made a complete train-wreck of this thread. I'm splitting it...

Topic drift's the trickiest of questions, at least in my world. There're some things that are pretty clear to me: responses to the actual content of a post that's on-topic, are by definition, on-topic. When, in some fairly flaky (but not illegitimate-- sometimes flaky conversation is among the...

This requires a moderator to judge intent and intelligence. Moderators are selected for, and have, good judgement, but this makes their judgement bear the ENTIRE load. I make dumb responses to posts sometimes-- forget what I'm doing, whatever. Punish me for trolling when I'm occasionally...