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I'll definitely do something similar as soon as I encounter a homeless person. We should put ourselves in their position. This would increase our altruism. Most are too caught up in their own lives to have the time to buy bread or anything else for the homeless.

I would like us to outline the effects of psychoactive substances (legal and illegal) have on society and individuals, postulating whether the benefits outweigh the cost. Day to day one seeks happiness or some derivative of it in the form of love, music, socializing, sport, entertainment, food and all other things that may stimulate the mind. However, these activities do have some risk to your health and at times to others. For example, over consumption of certain enjoyable foods such as burgers and French fries may increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. Falling in love may also be seen as incurring a risk. A person may go through emotional turmoil during and once a relationship has ended. My points is that the risk that one incurs and extends to other (society) should be balanced with the euphoria acquired by an activity. In many countries it is legal to consume alcohol. This has incurred many risks to these societies including alcohol induced violence and accidental deaths. Do these damages to society outweigh the benefits they provide to individuals? The same question may be asked to other psychoactive substances. What about the depressed, poor and dying? Should they allowed to induce euphoria through psychoactive substances such as cannabis? The meaning to life, as I understand it, is to do what makes you happy without inhibiting another person's happiness. Psychoactive substances, in certain circumstances, may provide this. (My poll pertains to whether we should have another psychoactive substance in society.) Sam Harris : (http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life)

Yeah, I'm just going to simmer down for a while. Stay out of the "heat" and keep out of their way. I'll just make an appearance now and then.

I really worked hard to keep my rep neutral. Now, certain people or a person decided to dislike my comments unfairly. It was deliberate as it was done just after I posted an undeniable comment that must have affected some evangelical(s). These people cannot take criticism and resort to bad tactics. Help

Dude? Okay. What about: the start of cellular development of a human being?

Somebody went to both of my posts on separate discussions and decided to pick me out from everyone else and dislike my posts. Thanks guys. I lost everything I worked so hard for in these few days.

You know what I mean. I'm using an analogy. Let's just agree that fertilization is the start of human development.

Exactly, it is ethical to kill animals for experiments. At the university I attend, undergraduates kill dozens of animals for dissection purposes. Btw, Why are you people ruining my reputation? I don't do that. If you can't argue a statement, don't resort to those types of tactics. Exactly, it is ethical to kill animals for experiments. At the university I attend, undergraduates kill dozens of animals for dissection purposes. Btw, Why are you people ruining my reputation? I don't do that. If you can't argue a statement, don't resort to those types of tactics.

It seems my reputation is at stake. My reputation is -2. Somebody doesn't like me.

I concede. I should choose my words more carefully. But I'm talking about scientists/inventors trying to go against the convention.

it's like people saying that the start of the universe is a continuum. It doesn't really start at the big bang. The start of inflation could have been the start of the universe. Or when the average temperature reached 1000 degree Celsius. This is seems absurd.

A natural death should not be investigated as a crime. The basis for my argument is that a fertilized egg (totipotent cell) is the cell that gives rise to all humans . An egg or a sperm will not spontaneously develop. Thus, the start of human life occurs at fertilization. To me it seems like at that point is when the process of life begins. https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/embryoquotes2.html

Agreed

Why? My destination is research.

I don't have to: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", Carl Sagan. If you want to claim that an alien species travelled millions of light years just to probe a farmer, produce crop circles or something like that, fine. But, it's your reputation at stake.

Almost everyone 100 years ago would have never imagined the iPhone, space travel, genetic engineering, antibiotics,and Internet. You just another one of those people. The Wright brothers faced adversity from the negative people who spent their lives doing nothing but bad critism.

Zoologists kill animals all the time during experiments. It's no big deal.

Still doing my undergraduate. I'm hoping to do my postgraduate in genetics. Who is doing their postgraduate?

Opinion: Aliens have never visited earth.

Okay. My argument is: People should make the definition of the start of human life as soon as fertilization occurs.

"In order to prevent this process, lymphocytes possess an intrinsic quality-control mechanism. This machinery shuts down the lymphocytes' ability to expand, if the trigger for the expansion turns out to be the body's own protein. T-cell anergy can arise when the T-cell does not receive appropriate co-stimulation in the presence of specific antigen recognition. B-cell anergy can be induced by exposure to soluble circulating antigen, and is often marked by a downregulation of surface IgM expression and partial blockade of intracellular signaling pathways." "In order to prevent this process, lymphocytes possess an intrinsic quality-control mechanism. This machinery shuts down the lymphocytes' ability to expand, if the trigger for the expansion turns out to be the body's own protein. T-cell anergy can arise when the T-cell does not receive appropriate co-stimulation in the presence of specific antigen recognition. B-cell anergy can be induced by exposure to soluble circulating antigen, and is often marked by a downregulation of surface IgM expression and partial blockade of intracellular signaling pathways."

This is why I enjoy forums. You learn new stuff.

I have articulated my question properly. I'm sure you people must have come across this sort of behaviour. Does it not fascinate anyone?

I hope it is true, because my life is not that great at the moment. I would like to wake up as a super, wealthy and handsome billionaire superstar.

You people are very lucky to live in a liberal, wealthy and powerful nation like the USA. You guys should have the best stories about how you lost your faith as the USA is highly religious and knowledge is easily accessible.