Debate

By definition, a documentary should be fair, reasonable, dispassionate. Learn how filmmakers' biases and hidden agendas can twist facts and mislead viewers.

Submitted by Dearheart 18 days ago

Submitted by Chandlerfan 25 days ago

Submitted by Chandlerfan 25 days ago

Elyse Siegel of The Huffington Post reports on a new Oklahoma law requires physicians to disclose detailed information on women's abortions to the State's Department Of Health, which will then post the collected data on a public website. 8 OCT 2009.

Submitted by DarkSarcasm 28 days ago

So how do YOU see the balloon? Is it red, or blue, or an in-between purplish sort of shade? ;-)

Submitted by Dearheart 29 days ago

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As of late, I've noticed several picks asking if it's murder if a crime is committed without mens rea. In all fairness, I'm paraphrasing, because none of these picks even mentions the words "mens rea" but the concept is the same.

For example, one pick asks if a priest should be convicted if he performed an exorcism which resulted in the supposedly possessed person's death. For that, I answered yes-- the priest should be convicted, or at least charged with manslaughter-- but not murder. Similarly, there are...

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The following is from "Battle Cry for My Generation", a book about teenagers, the junk we have to deal with and how we can overcome it. This chapter in particular was very alarming to me and I felt compelled to share it here and see what happens. It's a nasty wake-up call, that's for sure. (I didn't include the footnotes or anything though, so if you want to see the original studies and statistics for yourself, let me know. I'll do the best I can to look them up for you. On the other hand, you could buy the book and find them yourself...)

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Okay, okay I admit so far communism doesn’t seem to have worked too well, what with Stalin with his work camps and his unrealistic 5 years plans or Mao with controversial philosophy and catastrophically cultural revolution. However firstly I’d like to argue that the models cited above don’t actually correspond to Marxism in its purest sense, at all. Mao’s theory, in fact has little or nothing to do with Marxism. Mao’s conviction is more about the population’s ability as a whole to achieve anything through hard work and determination has nothing to do with the conventions of...