Recent content by DeXoh

I suppose I can try to answer one of your questions. This is the best my intuition can do. Space is incessantly expanding at an accelerated rate. It's currently thought to be impossible to reach its edges. Therefore, space has no boundaries so far as we are concerned. This leads me to believe...

crazy ol' conspiracy theorists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods Wait?

The superficial difference that we tend to draw between "nature" and us is hilariously vain. Somewhere far away extraterrestrial life is observing all of the animals and nature of Earth, and how the ones that walked upright built huge nests out of this hard material. My point is: we are nature...

To all the illegalizers because alcohol is "unhealthy" and kills n many people in every t interval of time: Fast food is unhealthy, and if consumed regularly (like alcohol), it can be fatal. Should we illegalize fast food? Should we illegalize cars? All unhealthy food? Guns? Knifes? All...

There will be nothing. No, not all black. No, not all white. Nothing, just nothing. Don't try to imagine it. You cannot. You can't experience death because you require a functioning brain to do so. Trying to imagine death is like trying to imagine what your life was like the billions of years...

I am of the belief that religious belief is only the result of irrationality and ignorance. So, the only true way I see society not having religion is everyone being completely rational. Yes, society would be better off.

The same principle applies to voting for electors. My use of unqualified was loose; I feel that an election voted by knowledgeable people would always result in the more qualified politicians being elected for any office, not just presidency. Experience. I can't really prove this.

Knowing arbitrary driving laws hardly decreases your chances of physical danger, I would know, considering I forgot them all. Although, I know what's potentially worse than physical danger: a state in which the people don't know what they're voting for and continually vote in unqualified...

Everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights to drive. No one should be excluded after becoming a legal adult from driving, especially if they fail any sort of test (or fail to take it). It would be a test with varying questions. Administered by the government, and proctored...

An unlimited amount of retakes. This whole process would be very similar to a driving test. To the average American the ability to drive is probably a lot more pressing than voting. You have to pass a written exam to drive. Similarly, you pass this once and you can vote. Study guides could be...

According to the US Constitution, I'm aware. I'm proposing, if you want the right to vote you pass a knowledge based test regarding the US government. In my eyes that is not a huge violation of rights. (disregarding the US constitution, speaking theoretically) No. Knowledge of US government...

This thread was inspired by the voting age thread, but it's a completely different topic so I made a new thread. I believe there should be a requirement test for voting. Something along the lines of a basic US government test primarily testing for understanding of concepts imperative to...

I am 16. I don't understand basic governmental functions. I don't claim to. None of my peers do. 18 is acceptable. Waiting two years to vote isn't a huge deal, you're being angsty about it. In fact, I would prefer if there was a requirement test to take in order to vote, maybe that and raising...

That is the inevitable conclusion of this debate, as I see it. A 'state' is an abstraction in the minds of people, and thus cannot be proven to exist in the rigorous way you're demanding. However, it's quite easy to prove that many people believe a 'state' exists, and for all practical...

Life has no purpose, just causes. There is no "reason" for anything. Things happen, and other things happen as a result of these things. That is just my intuition of the matter. Of course, I can't prove any of this.