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Joined: 26 May 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 4 Mar 2014
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Interests: Math, history, science, economics, & hockey

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Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
Love / Who makes a good Polish wife? [75]

are polish women good wifes?

Lets look at this question... The affirmation is that there are good wives. The inference is that being Polish makes good wives not so good.

So were looking for some type of cultural (Polish) black mark that reduces a Polish bride into being a not so good wife.

Question to the question: Does this cultural black mark discriminate by sex?
Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Well its a well known fact that the USA has the worst health care system in the world where by only the rich actually get any decent treatment.

Not true...

Im used to countries with free health care where the basic right of any individual is to be medically treated by their own country for which they pay taxes in.

If people do not pay taxes are they exempt from health care? I guess we'll find out in America; Obama's wealth redistribution program will test this theory.
Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

Well its a well known fact that the USA has the worst health care system in the world where by only the rich actually get any decent treatment.

Fact; what is your source for this fact?

No, and i didnt suggest otherwise I said "im used to" read more carefully next time.

I asked a question; I did not assert that you suggested anything..

The joke is that you think universal health care is free.
Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system.

Where is it stated that the health care in the United States of America is the worst in the world?
Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

I think you need to interview poor US citizens for that info.

That poll would be biased.

Are you proud of Americas health system?

No, it can be better.

Where is your source stating that the health care system in the United States of American is the worst in the industrialized world?
Babinich   
21 Dec 2008
News / Poland will take half a century to catch up with the West [240]

The richest country in the world with no free health care, what a joke. Im sure you have youre own health insurance so no problem right.

You're interjecting your opinions onto me in order to support your unsupportable contention.

I'll save you the research time: The United States does not have the worst health care system period; end of story...

Here is another fact: Free health care is not free.

I also have no problem what so ever in criticizing my country when I feel the direction of my country is askew.

As for alternatives to the US health care system, that I believe is in need of reform, I've found two model systems:

Singapore & Switzerland - BTW, neither are universal or free.

Singapore: econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/01/singapores_heal.html

Switzerland: healthcare-economist.com/2008/04/23/health-care-around-the-world-switzerland
Babinich   
25 Dec 2008
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

I am sorry Seanus, I am not making myself clear. I meant to say that the British helped the Soviets solidify power when it looked as if the October Revolution was teetering..

As to your point of using the A-Bomb on Japan it may have been the easy option. Would you rather have had the carnage that would have resulted if Japan itself was invaded?
Babinich   
25 Dec 2008
News / interview with Donald Tusk (Financial Times) [41]

That is not my quote but it is my belief.

Now look at the prime examples of "free" market (here meaning as few regulations as possible) the US and the post-Thatcherite Great Britain - now broke with key industries already gone or about to be destroyed!

No, there are plenty of regulations in the US. Many of them are poor and outdated.

Of course capitalism needs some regulation; otherwise we're at the mercy of the greedy. In the end incentives have to exist for people to lend capital in order for business to get started, for jobs to get created, and for wealth to be accumulated.

Spare me the BS of having the government bureaucrat be the watchdog.. The argument that these folks are virtuous is one that doesn't hold water.
Babinich   
25 Dec 2008
News / interview with Donald Tusk (Financial Times) [41]

No, I believe there needs to be regulation. I also believe that the regulation be clear, concise, and revisited.

Nothing beats free markets and capitalism.
Babinich   
31 Dec 2008
News / What did Poland get out of the wars and struggles for others? [1108]

Well? Where did the money come from for the wehrmacht since Germany was such a poor country that everyone had ganged up on and demanded so much money from it and on and on and on.

I think you'd want to look into a fellow by the name of Hjalmar Schacht. Enron didn't think up the idea of setting up phony companies in order to obfuscate the flow of money.

Despite the fact that Poles were giving it legs even before the war started

What are you trying to say?
Babinich   
2 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

its funny how you cant even get your own family history without sending a good amount of money and some priests are nice and do the respectful thing and some will snub you.. so I dont know how these men who are ordained get ordained when they are not fully capable of being around the public.

Because in the end they are just men; fallible.
Babinich   
2 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

In fact the whole idea of blindly following anything is beyond me, religion asks not to be questioned, that it is God's will but that is just blowing smoke.

Yep, the oft repeated argument:

Those who do not believe that moral values come from the Bible or that they be based upon God's moral instruction argue that they have a better source for values: human reason.

It utter nonsense that reason always suggests the good.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

let's stone this lady, she's unclean. bible says she needs to go.

Where does the Bible say she "she needs to go"?

or maybe they have their own mind and don't need constantine's rules to tell them what's what?

Right...

Reason without God is left wanting.... There are a number of issues where reason fails one such issue happens to be that people are basically good. You have to believe that people are basically good in order to believe that human reason will necessarily lead to moral conclusions.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

Babinich: It utter nonsense that reason always suggests the good.

How do you reason that out?.

What if in Nazi occupied Poland a Jewish family knocks on a door of a home asking the homeowner to hide his family?

Suppose the homeowner, on rational grounds, decides that the moral thing to do is hide the Jewish family.

Will this homeowner act on this decision at the risk of his life and the lives of his family? Not if reason alone guides him. People tend not to risk their lives and the lives of loved ones for strangers based on reason.

People tend to risk their lives for strangers based on faith; faith in something that supersedes reason.

Babinich: You have to believe that people are basically good in order to believe that human reason will necessarily lead to moral conclusions.

No you don't, you have to reason that it is in everyone's best interests not to kill each other or not to steal from me or my neighbour.

Sorry, when it comes to a moral question, there is no such a thing as a straight forward rational answer. What is the purely rational view on the morality of abortion, the war in Iraq, or capital punishment for murder?

Babinich: that people are basically good.

Any idiot can clearly see that this is not true. Where is the reasoning behind such a fictitious statement?.

Nice parsing.... This is not my contention and you know it.

My contention is that there are times when it can be rational to do what is wrong and that there are times when it can be rational to do what is right.

One has to believe that people are basically good in order to believe that human reason will consistently lead to moral conclusions.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

Sorry, it is not wrong to kill; it is wrong to murder.

2) You can empathise with the family and imagine if it were you and help.

If you think it is reasonable to put your life and the lives of your family on the line for a stranger I'd question your reasoning.

3) Using reason does not mean leading lambs to their slaughter.

I have no idea at where you're going here...

What about all the people who were killed in the name of your god?

I must have missed the entire message of the New Testament. People can claim all sorts of reasons for murdering others; religion is often used as the reason for murder.

What about those that killed based on something other than religion like Hitler, Mao, & Stalin? They felt they were being reasonable.

And it is strange that you talk about Nazis with regards to the church.
For it was the church that closed it's doors to the Jews in the second world war and NEVER condemed what the Nazis did!.

Are you saying that if a person does not explicitly condemn an oppressor that this very same person becomes incapable of helping the oppressed?

Sorry, he may have never condemned Hitler outright for fear of retaliation. It sure is harder helping others when in jail or in the grave.

Dr. Joseph Nathan, who represented the Hebrew Commission, addressed the Jewish community and expressed gratitude to those who protected and saved Jews during the Nazi occupation. "Above all," he stated, "we acknowledge the Supreme Pontiff and the religious men and women who, executing the directives of the Holy Father, recognized the persecuted of their brothers and, with great abnegation, hastened to help them, disregarding the terrible dangers to which they were exposed."

At Pope Pius XII death in 1958, Golda Meir sent this message: "We share in the grief of humanity. When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror, the voice of the pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."

amazon.com/Myth-Hitlers-Pope-Against-Germany/dp/0895260344/ ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1231008620&sr=11-1
Babinich   
4 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

People tend not to risk their lives and the lives of loved ones for strangers based on "morals" from the bible.

Please, Pope John Paul II risked his life while in Nazi occupied Poland for others.

As for the Pope's apology, that's fine and good. Quite good PR in an increasing hostile media world towards religion.

To say that during WWII the Catholic Church did not help the persecuted is a bold face lie.
Babinich   
4 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

That's right... Defending the defensible in the RCC from bomb throwers is my duty and my privilege.
Babinich   
5 Jan 2009
USA, Canada / FIRST POL-AM CATHOLIC (?) PRIESTESS [72]

The Catholic church sets the rules for being a Catholic and the rules they've set include regular church going.

The RCC strongly believes in participating in the Eucharistic celebration with others from the Christian community. In other words; communal prayer.