Letters to the Editor
dick dworkin
Published Letters: 1012 Editor's Choice: 5
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You seem to have some deep seated fear of femininity.
[Read the article: Walk in a brothel, walk out a rapist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I do have a deep seated fear of having to make huge sacrifices for sex/relationships (including kissing the asses of women like you) when it is impossible for me to induce anything similiar in anyone else, (unless I were to go gay). This isn't fear really, it's just reality for most men given the vastly different sex/relationship drives of men and women and the fact that men have no special status in other areas of life anymore. For someone who claims to have scrutinized what I've said for evidence that I've admitted to sexcrime it is kind of funny that you treat a matter that I have talked about openly and repeatedly as some sort of secret that you have discovered due to your superior feminine insight.
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if you want to outlaw and enforce the laws against trafficing, rape, assault, child molestation you can
[Read the article: Walk in a brothel, walk out a rapist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]outlawing sex between consenting adults because tina disapproves of the manner and circumstances in which they are engaging in it is neither a necessary or appropriate mechanism for approaching the problem. Tina's whole argument is a lie anyway. If someone could demonstrate a total absence of the problems she describes she would still be opposed to legalized prostitution, as she had said. Given that she is lying about her real agenda it isn't much of a stretch to believe she is also lying about the evidence she is citing to support it.
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off topic, but....while bowhunting may be harder for the hunter there is a much bigger chance the animal that is hit will die slow
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]because it is has to bleed to death, while the additional effects beyond bleeding of a bullet impact in a vital area will often help to shut things down much more quickly.
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and another thing or two about hunting vs domestication,
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]the raising of domestic animals, especially large scale, almost always entails huge environmental costs and extreme cruelty, and if you do it on a small scale you are going to be killing an animal that thinks you are part of it's "family" or herd or whatever it's social groups is. Hunting on the other hand, of deer particularly but other things too, is often necessary to maintain populations of animals from growing too large and destroying their environment now that people have changed things is ways that favor some animals and cause their populations to vastly exceed what they "naturally" would and because predators are absent. No, we cannot safely have bears and mountain lions which have completely lost their fear of humans living in our back yards to keep the deep population under control.
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this would work well with a hybrid system, especially a plug in or one with solar cells on the roof
[Read the article: The Hydro 4000: Save 60 percent on gas?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]because the electricity could be had from another source than the engine.
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some people do try for head shots in areas where deer are overabundant and hunting seasons last many months.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]and it may be true that 51% of the time a bullet is no quicker than an arrow, but a bullet in the heart is likely to lead to a quicker death than an arrow in the chest. On the other hand the deer is more likely to get away from the arrow altogether.
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some people actually like the taste of sour yogurt, low fat or high fat doesn't matter taste wise
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it's tolerable with fruit, although it's better plain, but chocolate and vanilla and things like that added are truly disgusting. Apparently though I am in the minority.
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fat is needed for nervous system development but too much fat definitely can and will kill you in this world
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and worse than that it will often do so through a loooooonnnnnnng stage of disability where the fat person drags down others along with themselves.
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it's hard, at least it was for me, to get homemade yogurt to thicken right
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]it tasted great and I didn't mind the texture to eat , but i I also wanted to be able to strain it through a yogurt strainer to get the liquid out so you can use the yogurt solids like cream cheese and I couldn't get this to work (this was when milk was a dollar a gallon so it would have saved me a lot of money). Commercial yogurt uses thickeners that make this possible which I couldn't replicate.
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every drivers license has a picture on it, this is "biometric" too, DNA is just a refinement
[Read the article: Has our reverence for DNA gone too far?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the idea that DNA is your identification, like a drivers license, at least has a limit in principle unlike other things such as universal surveillance and tracking, no limits on searches, etc. from which the people who wish to do it would also argue that "the innocent have nothing to fear".
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I don't like the taste of skim milk either but after years of drinking 2% that tastes normal to me
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and whole milk feels like someone has mixed grease or oil or some extra fat into it somehow. I was actually surprised to find that this conditioning had taken place so completely but whole milk really does taste wrong to me now. I still like plenty of other fatty foods of course. In many cultures there are a few foods which consist of essentially nothing but PURE fat or PURE oil and these are eaten with gusto, although I think most people here would find eating a plain stick of butter disgusting.
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I cannot imagine living without such a beautiful, healthful, delicious food when it can be obtained without killing any animals.
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It can't be obtained without killing animals, what do you think happens to the cows when they are past their peak production? It's fairly common for people do keep egg laying chickens in their yards as pets so I suppose you could do the same thing with a cow or goat although this probably isn't practical for most.
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the reason people are overweight is because they eat too much for the amount of calories they burn
[Read the article: It's kinda gross, but it's only 90 calories!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the insane idea that if only we eat "good" food all the sedentary residents of a modern society can eat as much as they want of whatever they want and they and we won't have an obesity problem is a delusion on par with the delusion that we don't have an obesity epidemic at all or that the negative effects of obesity are being exaggerated. Not surprisingly these delusions tend to cluster.
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Any scientific evidence from those who want to blame people with PTSD for an increasingly vigilant government
[Read the article: Has our reverence for DNA gone too far?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure how much scientific evidence there is but are you claiming that it is impossible that fearful and traumatized people are willing to put up with more in order to be "protected"? It has always been assumed that this is true and has political implications for large groups, why wouldn't it be true for individuals and why wouldn't this desire influence their politics. At the very least it seems that every spokesman or activist for draconian "victim protection" measures is a crime victim although obviously these spokespersons/activists are a selected group and not a representative sample of anything.
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Say goodbye to anonymous sperm donation
[Read the article: Has our reverence for DNA gone too far?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous sperm donation is on the way out now anyway, since it deprives the offspring of their "right" to know their history.