You are right that marriage had traditionally been a contract whereby a woman exchanges her childbearing years for the security provided to them by men. Are you aware that women live longer than men and

That is madness. I upvote someone and they get a penny, this particular poster is capable of awarding someone 15 dollars... I guess that is why you ping stellabelle in the instructions... seriously, though,

Science naturalizes rape and people like me advocate the death penalty for this sort of 'natural' behavior. I don't care if someone feels like raping or if someone feels like whatever, just don't do it.

Ya. Maybe. Unless a group of people conspired and their opposition didn't group well or resist effectively. I am with you that the state is robbing people, I just think we need to change the nature of

Well... I am not opposed to much you are saying here, then. I disagree with all sorts of it, but perhaps you were right earlier when you suspected my original response wasn't really 'responding to you

I hadn't really noticed that and it is an interesting observation - but not super interesting.

What if they used force against the Iranian military in retaliation for acts of violence against the protesters?

This is an extremely simplistic way of portraying the history of Malta and the orders of knights that engaged in holy wars... I mean, not to defend the guys, or to say that their whole history was animated

I should clarify that the inequality I am referring to is the inequality of power - if no state exists and a mob of individuals agree to rob their neighbors, what will stop them? What is the 'gravity'

If the wife said, "no", and the man used violence to force it on her, it was assault. If the man didn't use violence... like, why didn't the wife resist? What evidence could the courts really

Marital rape is a matter of definition. If a husband takes his wife violently, is it rape or is it just assault? Maybe they were wrong then, but there was never a time when a man could legally hurt a woman,

Maybe. Or maybe they are demanding that the fractious, violent and unbounded nations of this world bend their knee to the US merchant republic and there is now more freedom and democracy in this world

I don't think I am the one with the difficult facts to explain. Is what happens at the airport right? No. Is what happens with our tax system and all the whimsical government largesse OK? No. It is well

I am not sure how much more simply I can put this - a discussion about rights can't even begin until the question of power imbalance is resolved. Who will make sure that your rights are recognized? If

What kind of soulless, thoughtless slave writes this tripe?

I don't know about that... I agree that the US has no business in Ukraine, if that is what you believe, but that the US doesn't benefit from being the most powerful nation on the planet? Being on Steemit

In principle a great argument. I would only caution that it is likely that there is a piece of reality that is being obscured in an argument that focuses exclusively on rights. "Justice, as the world

As a rule I don't usually approve of this sort of thing... but since Trudeau and people like him never seem to condemn it when it happens to their enemies I hope more people like you step up and let them

I agree that no intelligent and serious person should be reverent of anything or anyone, whether it be an author, a religious document or a government document. We are free people and we should aspire