The politics of assassination

I'm not sure what quantification methods you have used, but I will agree that PR does not deserve as much condemnation from his recent comments... than he does for all of his past ignorant and dangerous comments.Are you honestly giving him a pass for suggesting someone bomb the State Department? Or that people pray to God to incapacitate a SC justice? I don't know. How does that fit in with Chavez, the state dept, and the supreme court? They didn't throw stones at PR did they? More so than PR on these particular issues. But "righteous" isn't exactly the right word. "Consistent" would be better, and "Not a dangerous, raving asshole" would be better still.

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holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)

I did, and the paper did not show that there was any genetic role in the "gender behavior" of fruit flies.It showed that genetic alterations could result in physical genital changes, as well as affect the mating behaviors. This was not necessarily a "gender" issue, but one of altering perception and behavior in general.Studies suggest that the males lose the ability to determine between male and female, and not that they suddenly feel they are female and so like males. They were also no longer capable of performing proper "instinctual" mating rituals.Those are wholesale cognitive issues, and not merely gender issues.There is a second follow up thread on the evidence for genetic influence on sexuality in the Coffee House which is still open if you are interested in where the conversation went after it left the first thread.

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holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)