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Freedom does lead to some suffering, that is true, but a larger cause of suffering is likely the desire to take freedom from others. That isn’t to say that people should just act anyway themselves, for the most part people have to control their own behavior, not have it controlled by others.

You edited that in while I was typing so I didn't reply. You make a good point here and it actually addresses why it could be hard to study the effects of gay parents compared to straight ones. Gay couples with children are necessarily outliers. They can't get pregnant accidentally. They can't...

Absolutely, it does make sense that children of single parents would do worse, and I personally believe that being the child of a single parent does lead to worse outcomes. But I want to be careful not to let the correlation in combination with our intuition and values lead us to overestimate...

It’s a interesting question about the effects of two traditional parents in children as opposed to alternatives - single mom, single dad, step parent, two gay men, two lesbians, grandparents, adoption, etc. People are so biased and may be a bit too quick to draw conclusions from limited data...

Rights are artificial constructs which are based on the reality of human nature, kind of like how physics is an artificial construct based on physical nature. So a government can't freely decide what rights are any more than they can freely decide what the laws of physics are. Are there times...

Well, I didn’t assume that people necessarily have that right, but I think that a strong case can be made for having that right. Though there are all sorts of behaviors people can engage in that they have a right to engage in, not just sexual behaviors, that are destructive to society especially...

Even if we accept that people have the right to engage in any consensual sexual act that they desire, and I’d say that there is a very strong case to be made for that, we would still have to admit that if enough people engage in certain consensual behaviors that it would be ruinous for humanity...

As I mentioned earlier, even conservatives have internalized leftism. One of the most common ways I see this is magical thinking regarding assimilation, as though it were just the most natural thing in the world and is inevitable. It’s not, assimilation isn’t going to happen, and holding on to...

You do what? I’m a little confused about what you are responding to. The West would also be giving up many of the comforts we have become accustomed to, including safety, even though those comforts are slowly eroding away as we speak, including safety.

Yet... British people could stop what is happening to their country, they could stop it very easily. If the people of the UK collectively decided that they’d had enough, they could send all of the Muslims and other hostile invaders back to their homelands and the traitorous pro-immigrant...

I know. I fear that we may be beyond the point where moderate solutions will be accepted to implemented. The left has too much power and their ideology has been too broadly accepted and internalized even by people who consider themselves conservatives. Our current social issues probably won’t...

Well, with no context it’s impossible to know what she means. The context, though, is the real reaction of millions of feminists across Europe to epidemics of rape that are plaguing nations that had almost no crime in living memory. These feminists will viciously attack anybody who wants to talk...

That is a the ideal way to fix this problem, at least from a legal perspective. Through out much of history in western nations, there weren’t really laws against promiscuity. In fact, prostitution was more often legal back then than now. It’s just that there was a lot of social stigma against...

Leftists have already largely destroyed the family though haven’t they? Over half of children in the West are raised without an intact family - either because of out of wedlock birth or divorce - and a lot of people aren’t even having kids at all. Feminism is like a giant shit-test which...

I agree with a lot of what you say Lord Invictus, though the bit about women descending into a wild trance of erotic dancing is hilarious. Let me, though, help you out a little and reframe your argument in a more palatable way. Female sexuality needs to be controlled, but then again so too does...