rubikscube

Succinctly and accurately put. I know there's more that agree on HN, but those who repeat the government lines verbatim from their government school seventh-grade textbooks seem to be the most vocal around here.

His points aren't even written coherently, but are slogans. e.g. "right to choose" and "They are against equal pay for equal work laws." He would have to demonstrate where Ron Paul and Rand Paul stated they are for inequality of pay for equal work. When you look at the issues, they aren't the same thing the juvenile slogans make them out to be.

I'll address just one of your lefty talking points. "Right to choose : They are against a woman's right to choose." Why don't you finish the sentence, pal? Right to choose what exactly? Many people recognize that women do not have the right to murder their unborn child. One good thing from the Gosnell case is that the reality of your agendas are becoming more exposed by the day.

There's some low cost alternatives in the USA too for other types of surgery.

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/

They even have the integrity to list prices publicly.

It's because they are brave doctors working outside of the government healthcare racket.

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing.php

What he thinks was most certainly revealed there, and it's common for many commenters on sites like HN and reddit.

"We are all just meat bags ..."

If you told someone that their son was "just a meat bag," or if you were speaking on your behalf in court and stated you were "making an appearance in meat space," you would be naturally considered a sociopath.

So get real.

It's the nerd group-think reductionist tendency on the internet. They wouldn't get away with it in real life for long if they valued having friends.

You can choose to sound like the atheistic Colombine murderers and their ilk, but don't expect the less numbed to not call you out on it.

If all you are is a "meat bag", then a bomb blast is no more tragic than making sloppy joes with ground beef.

Silly nerd thinking. Your "meat bag" and "meat space" thinking is ridiculous.

"We all just meat bags." No. Can we stop with the nerd reductionist attitude so prevalent on sites like this? The majority of people don't consider human life to be simply "just meat bags."

Sorry for the loss of your friend.

And the user "mindcrime", commenting elsewhere in this thread, is a fine specimen for my above points:

  ... I'm the kind of person who likes doing things 
  differently, just to irk people like you. I don't see
  much value in blind adherence to tradition for
  tradition's sake. I like killing sacred cows, stirring
  the pot...

  ... I'm a radically individualistic anarcho-capitalist /
  libertarian / atheist type, so I'm just a touch outside 
  of what you might call mainstream...

Oh yes, so "radically individualistic." More like his internet-Dawkins atheism is keeping him in a perpetual mental state of rebellion, so that he feels the need to "kill sacred cows" towards people he doesn't even know, by "stirring the pot." The attitude and nerd-rebellion with grammar is comical.

It's better to use grammatically correct and conventionally accepted statements.

Beginning a response with "I agree" or "Good point" reads pleasantly, without the nails-on-chalkboard effect of the internet-nerd-herd-mind irritating-and-head-scratching-to-regular-people nerd-convention of "This".

Stupid nerds. They seem to like to demonstrate how "non-conforming" they are, but reading sites like this, or worse, reddit, shows how readily they imitate one big nerd group.

If people ate 9 to 12 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, or better yet, ate only/mostly fruits and vegetables as their entire diet, they wouldn't think they need supplements like Ribena to get their Vitamin C, as well as a host of other nutrients.

There's some pictures of vegan pancakes here, and to me, they appear indistinguishable from pancakes with animal products.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22912210

Allergen free, gluten free, vegan pancakes

No thanks, my health is more important than money.