Doug Newman
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Is healthcare for profit a disease of Capitalism?
Can a country that allows the medical professions to bankrupt whole families while providing no care or poor care to tens of millions of its indigent citizens be reasonably described as barbarous? Read More
May 17, 2008 | In
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Why is there no way to post a question to your HELP forum?
I see that other readers have posted questions/suggestions in Bigthink's "Help" forums. Has posting to these forums been disallowed? Where and how can problems be reported? Does anyone administrate this stuff? Read More
April 14, 2008 | In
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Why does big Think not allow upload of a jpg?
No matter what permissions I allow my browser to grant, I cannot upload a simple graphic to illustrate an important point! the supposed link http://www.bigthink.com/create-idea/step2 simply will not respond to any attempt to upload a graphic.When I am logged in and try to go to Help, I am not allowed to post any question. Despite logging in over and over, posting to the help forum is prohibited. Can anyone suggest why this might be? Are Big Ideas always text-only ideas? Read More
April 13, 2008 | In
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Will an 'October Surprise" like a US attack on Iran ensure McCain's election?
Given Americans' lack of critical thinking in supporting an illegal war of aggression that successfully tricked citizens into re-electing Bush Jr. on 2004, do readers here think that a sneak attack on Iran in September or October will trickAmericans into electing McCain? Read More
April 4, 2008 | In
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Why America cannot be a Christian country
America cannot be a Christian nation because Americans have decieved themselves or allowed themselves to be deceived about the meaning of Jesus' teachings. Americans who support the death penalty, for example, cannot be Christians if they believe in the Old Testament dictum "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". That is the root of the Law of Moses, which Christians are required to reject, according to the New Testament. Read More
March 30, 2008 | In
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Perhaps it is because when one reviews the remarks on a topic that demands logic and analysis, the responders often do not use logic or analysis. From the number of irrational, inane, and faith-based responses, it appears responders here do not, all to often, know how to apply logic.This ensures that no idea will be developed in a rational way. No matter what is discussed or where, there will be Warrior3, or someone like her/him, who will be there to ensure irrationality and prevent co-operative analysis. Boredom and flaming is sure to follow. No big thinkers will endure that for long. Read More
March 30, 2008 | In
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Folks are not scaredof climate change. They don't know & they don't care.
There is little evidence that Joe Average knows or cares about the consequences of more CO2 in the air. Many of the consequenses predicted for decades in the future have arrived already. People don't want to talk about it. I notice after three weeks only Inky has bothered to voice an opinion. Could it be that only 500 people submitted all 8,000 ideas and there are now only 50 people who ever read or post here? Or, more likely, the subject is simply of little interest to Big Thinkers! :( Read More
March 27, 2008 | In
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The Problem of the Criminal State
The assertion that the emergence of a Preventive State is either necessary or desireable is pernicious. Mr. Dershowitz seems to argue that the prospect of horrors committed by individuals or small groups are more horrible than the atrocities carried out by established governments. I see little evidence of this, given the ability and overly righteous willingness of governments, including the US, to inflict inhumane damage on millions of innocents, whether abroad or at home. If the consiquenses of a single suicide bomber are so awful, how much more awful is it to kill hundreds of thousa… Read More
March 24, 2008 | In
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America doesn't want the rule of law.
I agree with Ms. Strossen's assertion that the US is squandering presumed moral authority by abusing the rule of law in its "War on Terror". Some may question if the US has any moral authority at all, having prosecuted a war of agression with grave human consequenses. Ms. Strossen seemed eager to proslytize for the rule of law, but it seems Americans have turned a deaf ear to that well established legal doctrine. The loss of habeus corpus as a legal principle in US law is a moral failure of the first order, yet many Americans are ignorant of the meaning of these events and, disturbingly… Read More
March 24, 2008 | In
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I find it fascinating that Mr. Armitage describes 'oxygen, gasoline, a spark and a conflagration' coming together as though these were forces of nature that simply came together apart from anyone's bidding and he seems unconcious of the idea that some people might actually bear some responsibility for bringing these explosive elements together. Surveying a hundred thousand civillians killed and millions of Iraqi refugees created, Mr Armitage's view seems to be along th lines of "Oh well, shit happens." It is no wonder that the idea he might bear some personal responsibility s… Read More
March 24, 2008 | In
