“The question would be how much you could read before they grabbed you"

[nicname]

From http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=31565.125

The president has a list of people he wants to kill and dispatches remote control robots to kill them.

The CIA tortured tons of people, killed lots of people, spied on Congress when they did an investigative report and now refuses to allow the release of the report.

Most commodities are priced by cartels.

We live in an oligarchy.

 

[michigancat]

Let's hear it for atheists! 

[8manpick]

Let's hear it for atheists! 

We already knew we were huge studs, but thanks. So much for relativistic morality!

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Those darn Maddow bloggers polling their friends again.

[bubbles4ksu]

Those darn Maddow bloggers polling their friends again.

that poll was done by the washington post and abc.

[slobber]

No religion is not defined very well. White Catholic kind of excludes a decent part of the population.


Gonna win 'em all!

[DQ12]

oh wow, a whole 1,000 people were asked their opinion on the matter.  let's give it up for all 7 out of 13 athiests who thought torture was bad!  good post Rusty/8man/Bubs.

 

[wetwillie]

They all look like a set of male genitals n balls.  Except the one on the right.  #stumpy

[Kat Kid]

oh wow, a whole 1,000 people were asked their opinion on the matter.  let's give it up for all 7 out of 13 athiests who thought torture was bad!  good post Rusty/8man/Bubs.

 

Not 100% sure you understand sampling.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

The "no religion" crowd sees a moral equivalency between intentionally slaughtering civilians in the most barbaric ways imaginable and harshly interrogating suspected terrorists to prevent future attacks? Well that's just shocking.

[Kat Kid]

The "no religion" crowd sees a moral equivalency between intentionally slaughtering civilians in the most barbaric ways imaginable and harshly interrogating suspected terrorists to prevent future attacks? Well that's just shocking.

I don't think that was the poll question.  But my answer would be they aren't morally equivalent.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

The "no religion" crowd sees a moral equivalency between intentionally slaughtering civilians in the most barbaric ways imaginable and harshly interrogating suspected terrorists to prevent future attacks? Well that's just shocking.

I don't think that was the poll question.  But my answer would be they aren't morally equivalent.

But that's what it really boils down to in most people's minds.

[The Big Train]

Let's hear it for atheists! 

We already knew we were huge studs, but thanks. So much for relativistic morality!

[DQ12]

oh wow, a whole 1,000 people were asked their opinion on the matter.  let's give it up for all 7 out of 13 athiests who thought torture was bad!  good post Rusty/8man/Bubs.

 

Not 100% sure you understand sampling.

4 people in this thread think that poll is a good and only 2 say it's bad. 

looks like the numbers are in folks, and 2/3 of americans say the poll is good!

 

[The Big Train]

take a chill pill dlew, sheesh

[bubbles4ksu]

Idk why the god-fearing torture lover Dlew lumped me in with rusty and 8man. All I did was help dougie to understand.

[Kat Kid]

The "no religion" crowd sees a moral equivalency between intentionally slaughtering civilians in the most barbaric ways imaginable and harshly interrogating suspected terrorists to prevent future attacks? Well that's just shocking.

I don't think that was the poll question.  But my answer would be they aren't morally equivalent.

But that's what it really boils down to in most people's minds.

Maybe.  It certainly is your moral calculus.  I don't think about it that way and we come to different conclusions so that makes sense to me.

[Kat Kid]

oh wow, a whole 1,000 people were asked their opinion on the matter.  let's give it up for all 7 out of 13 athiests who thought torture was bad!  good post Rusty/8man/Bubs.

 

Not 100% sure you understand sampling.

4 people in this thread think that poll is a good and only 2 say it's bad. 

looks like the numbers are in folks, and 2/3 of americans say the poll is good!

 

Are you one of those people that thinks that if you aren't in a random sample you can add/subtract a percentage point on the result to correct for your opinion?

[0.42]

I can't tell if dlew is bbs'ing here or not

[DQ12]

oh wow, a whole 1,000 people were asked their opinion on the matter.  let's give it up for all 7 out of 13 athiests who thought torture was bad!  good post Rusty/8man/Bubs.

 

Not 100% sure you understand sampling.

4 people in this thread think that poll is a good and only 2 say it's bad. 

looks like the numbers are in folks, and 2/3 of americans say the poll is good!

 

Are you one of those people that thinks that if you aren't in a random sample you can add/subtract a percentage point on the result to correct for your opinion?

1000 people just seems really low.  Maybe it's not for these types of things.

[DQ12]

And I'm just bitter because I was hoping that religious folks would be rooting for the right things.

[Kat Kid]

A sample size of ~2500 is typical for national polls in the US and that has a margin of error of around 2.5%.  I didn't look at the methodology or the sampling of the poll, but a sample of 1000 is plenty for almost anything.

[bubbles4ksu]

And I'm just bitter because I was hoping that religious folks would be rooting for the right things.

You owe me an apology for grouping me with 8man and cRusty.

[DQ12]

sorry bubs.  that was a low blow and completely unfounded.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

The same atheists agreed droning was justified at a 71% clip.