I wish I knew how to do this quote business. Skywier, I have not posed the question to suggest that there is any solution, it was posed to show this- if it were clear that humanity would fail unless a significant proportion of humanity were killed then that is a dilemma for which "law" sho...

Skywier indicates that because a law has been accepted as promoting humanity and is in place within international law it is objective. If he means to indicate that the application of that law thereafter is objective, then that is a supportable argument, as long as the rule remains the same, and it i...

Burnt bails never seemed to me to have the same glamour as the wooden spoon! I presume that makes sense in the southern hemisphere?

I don't think I have had such a stimulating debate since I left university. But I now think that I have all but exhausted my arguments. I agree that there has to be a moral standard, that should be set by some level of societal agreement in respect of wrongs. I am, however biased and in favour of we...

I seem to remember that Hubris leads to downfall, Green and Gold or Gold and Green it may not be your year.

Skywier seems to indicate that natural law arises out of the need for objectivity. My argument is simply this " there is no such thing as objectivity in these matters". There is no logical reason why to kill to survive should be wrong, I happen to think it is, but that comes from my subjec...

Skywier seems to indicate that natural law arises out of the need for objectivity. My argument is simply this " there is no such thing as objectivity in these matters". There is no logical reason why to kill to survive should be wrong, I happen to think it is, but that comes from my subjec...

Skywier's statement's are based on a belief in natural law. There is an ongoing argument in modern Jursiprudential thought between the philosphy of natural law, and that of the positivists. It is interesting to note that the natural lawyers ideas all spring from an early Christian religious philosop...

I is important not to confuse earthpower and the law, earthpower operates within the law. Foul is able to use earthpower as long as he obeys the rules that govern it, we have no clues that he ever used it for despite, the great clue however is that he needed Kevin to invoke the RoD in order to use t...

If the war was not about weapons of mass destruction and was about an evil dictatorship will America and the UK do the right thing in respect of other dictatorships, China, North Korea, Libya? Where does it stop? More impotantly against a larger better equipped foe would we all be prepared for a lon...

EXTREME ACTION This is a true story, or at least as true as any story can be, told by an actor in the tale. It deals in deceit, but not as you would imagine the kind of deceit perpetrated by one person on another, but the kind of deceit that we, all too fallible beings that we are and remain, are pr...

I am not going to be able to get downunder for this :( , worse than that the Matches are all on in the middle of the night so I won't be able to watch them in the pub :x . But worse than that Wales are in their worst form ever! and I do mean ever :cry: And England, God forbid, are favourites to win ...

Oh dear I got so carried away with myself I forgot to say I am Wayne, 42, erudite, eclectic, too clever by half, with a penchant for overstatement, ( by the way It's really easy to be bigheaded when no-one can see you blush)

Is it as good as the Philip Pullman "His dark materials trilogy?"

No paper books = no bookshops = no second hand bookshops :( I cannot imagine a world without second hand bookshops. The smell of old books is incredible, that dusty warm odour sweet and strong, and when you open a book you can almost feel you are joined by those who have read it before. But the best...

Isn't evil in literature the character without empathy? All seem to have a capacity for hedonistic pleasure, and are without compunction in the means which they use to achieve that pleasure. Lord Foul seems to differ in that respect because whilst he is powerful in the land, the legends suggest he i...

The thing is that I joined after finding this site a few days ago, because out of curiosity I typed TC into my search engine.Why? because I have just started reading the first chronicles again. I am in Glimmermere as I write, well you know what I mean. I have never been involved in a group discussio...

I am a bit late with this topic, seeing as it started at xmas, I would however submit that suggesting titles is a bit too narrow for most here as they read more than the average bear. How about I suggest some authors For humour :lol: try: Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt. For SF 8) : Ian M Banks and Joh...

New to the site too! I am a lawyer (no, I know all the jokes :lol: ). I am learning how to use the "web" having only recently graduated from word processing, general typing skills, and having overcome my unerring ability to make the thing crash on at least a daily basis. 8O I now find this...

Geraden's "feelings" are meant to convey, at this early stage of the story, that he is more puissant than either he or those around him can imagine. It is setting the scene for the later discovery of talent. However it is also a device to allow Terisa to have a sense of being unsure as to ...