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Author | Topic: We youth at EvC are in Moral Decline | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
Unless you don't have an alcohol dehydrogenase gene you
elliminate 1 unit of alcohol per hour (if I remember right which I might not) ... so in theory you could drink 1 unit per hour and never have a build-up of alcohol. I think the question is what do you mean by drunk? I can drink a couple of glasses of wine without any noticeableeffect, but am aware that my reaction times will be affected. I wouldn't call that drunk though.
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
quote: Yes it does ... it's about socialising with work-colleaguesand managers. Drink too much and it looks bad (there was a figure on the amounts in the study but I cannot remember off hand).
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
If the drug scene surfaced in the 60's why are there
info-films decrying the horrors of drug use that date right back to the 40's ? What about the opium dens of victorian London (and New Yorkand ...)? What do you think the prohibition gangsters did after therepeal ... retire ????
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
quote: Children need a loving, stable home-life. The number and biologicalrelationship of the parents has negligable effect in comparison. quote: Hardly a new phenomenon. Young girls were routinely lockedup in asylums for simply falling pregnant out of wed-lock ... or stoned to death. And babies have been abandoned and left to die for centuries.Even Romulus and Remus were left unwanted on the hillside (fiction, yes, but a common practice in ancient times). quote: There are more divorces becuase it is easier to do (legally),and that it has been made easier to do implies a recognition of the need. Which is worse, being stuck in a miserable life with the wrongperson, or being able to admit the mistake and start afresh? quote: What is social welfare? Doesn't sound like something thatcould be all that bad to me. quote: How is this linked to moral decline? Bad parenting has always happened ... perhaps we should questionmodern parenting advice rather than blame wholesale moral decline. quote: And syphilis wasn't much a problem before it could be cured? How many died because of this disease, and countless otherSDT's, prior to the emergence of adequate control and treatment? quote: Crime rates fluctuate, and would be expected to increase withincreasing population density (because there us more opportunity for crime if there are more people tightly packed). Crime rates in victorian London were excessively high by modern standards and yet the face of victorian society was strict and rigid christain morality. quote: The need for more prisons most likely has much more to dowith abolition or delay of capital punishment (not making ANY comment on the rights and wrongs of that simply on the consequences). In former times certain crimes were swiftly punished byexecution. Now they require either very long prison sentences of extended time on death row. Consequence -- more prison spaces required. Simplified version, yes, indication of more crime, no.
quote: Not sure that this is true either.
quote: Government officials in the 30's weren't corrupt? Power attracts the corruptible.
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xwhydoyoureyesx Inactive Member |
hmmm... your probably right. i apologize. "fag" today would be like calling someone stupid.
a lot of people who are edge are pricks who jump all over people who aren't.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1497 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
hmmm... your probably right. i apologize. "fag" today would be like calling someone stupid. While that may largely be true in your peer group it's really not in mine. I wonder - what do your gay friends think about the use of that word?
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xwhydoyoureyesx Inactive Member |
they don't appreciate it but they generally let it slide. should probably not use it.
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
quote: Fun little ancient Rome factoid... the legend goes that Romulus and Remus were abandoned and raised by a female wolf. What most people who hear the legend miss is that the Latin word for "female wolf" is the same as the word for "prostitute."
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doctrbill Member (Idle past 2795 days) Posts: 1174 From: Eugene, Oregon, USA Joined: |
Dan Carroll writes:
Very interesting. I did not know that. Gives a whole new meaning to the expression son-of-a-bitch. What most people who hear the legend miss is that the Latin word for "female wolf" is the same as the word for "prostitute." Are you aware that the Sumerian word for "sheep fold" was the same as their word for "vulva"? And the Hebrew word for "vulva" (AKA Womb or Matrix) means "fondle" and is used, in the Bible, as slang for girl ? db
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truthlover Member (Idle past 4090 days) Posts: 1548 From: Selmer, TN Joined: |
Children need a loving, stable home-life. The number and biological relationship of the parents has negligable effect in comparison. The number and relationship of parents has a very measurable effect. In some ideal world, maybe we could compare the effect of a loving, stable, single parent home with the effect of a loving, stable traditional couple home. Since loving and stable aren't very measurable, that's difficult to do. We can measure the effect of kids raised by single parents versus kids raised by couple that stayed together.
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
.... and the latin word 'vagina' means 'sword sheath' ... go figure
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Peter Member (Idle past 1509 days) Posts: 2161 From: Cambridgeshire, UK. Joined: |
There are plentiful (unfortunately) examples of families
with both biological parents present where the children suffer immensely both physically and psychologically. Without taking into account the stability of the home-lifeor the quality of care comparison by the numbers is meaningless. There is no context. And then there are adoptive, step-, and foster families thatcan also provide the environment that aids a child's development. All I was saying is that the number of parents has, in comparisonto other factors, very little impact. Anecdotal stuff coming up, beware :- I have friendswho grew up with only one parent who have achieved well academically, are well-adjusted (so far as I can tell -- but hey what do I know), and successful (in personal terms) individuals. I equally have encountered people who had both parents at homeduring their upbringing who have not turned out so well (relative to societal expectations of course). What can one conclude? For me it says the number and biologicalrelationship of the parents must be a minor factor.
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
quote: Hee hee! Unfortunately, nobody can be told what the vulva is. You'll just have to see for yourself.
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
Where I live I have noticed that all of my friends with the exception of me and a few others smoke cigarrettes, drink, and smoke pot. Some of my friends (we are all in the range of ages 13-15 with the exception of a few older and younger) have already had sex. This seems outrageous to any adult if they were told. Back when my dad was a kid, (he's 48) nothing like this ever happened. With the exception of drugs, "Everyone was doing it" he said, but he stayed away from it. Although he did smoke cigarettes occasionally, until he found out it was bad for you. (He was a running and fitness fanatic.) Now kids are morally declined I think. With almost all of my friends smoking, and with some having sex (at 13,14,15) it really seems like that. The worst part is that they lie about it and say they don't or haven't smoked pot. I don't know this is just my perspective on things.
------------------"As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? The number of intermediate links between all living and extinct species must have been inconceivably great!" (emphasis added) -- Charles Darwin
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Why do you consider these things immoral?
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