No. I'm just pointing out that eating a vegetable is destroying life just as much as eating a steak. I have no problem with vegetarianism/veganism, but I see them as unnecessary. Human beings are the master species and we have control over this world and it is our job to take care of it AND ourselves. Meat is essential to many people's diets, like mine, where I want a lot of protein. Sure, you could get these things in other foods, but we have the power to digest meat, just like a cougar or a bear.

Besides, don't you realize that I don't care if an organism can think? Remember our little debate about abortion? :)

Plants have a nutritive soul and they react to different stimuli, like light, wind, and temperature. They can also grow in different directions depending on these factors and most are grown against gravity, in fact. They may not be sentient, as animals are, but they can still "feel" and react.

I believe the Earth is warming, and possibly faster than ever recorded. But I also believe this is mostly a natural occurrence. Scientists have confirmed that temperatures before the last ice age were about 4C higher than they are now. Although we may be increasing at a faster rate now than ever before, I have not seen anything about how long the rate of global warming will remain the way it is now.

"Humans have no major role in the warming climate. The earth has been warming on its own."

Agreed, but I think it's important to preserve aesthetic beauty in our nation and we also need land for farms and resources. We can't just develop on everything.

Yes, animals are alive, but so are plants! So suggesting that meat is murder would also say that vegetables are murder. Therefore, we shouldn't eat any food and we should remove ourselves entirely from the food chain!

This was a well thought out argument with no spelling or grammar mistakes that I can see. I would like to know why it was down-voted because this is really starting to bother me and it bothers everybody on this site who puts effort into his or her arguments.

I know for a fact, being recently 16 and having a 14-year-old brother, that politics is possibly one of the most boring topics around at that age. A young teen is not going to research the candidates and find the best policies for the nation. True, some will (like I did), but the vast majority will not. They will vote for the candidate that they like better of whom their parents told them to vote for- this is not a choice of the voters then, it is an extra vote for someone else or a faulty and uneducated vote. Just look at student council elections! In grammar school and high school, who wins the student council elections? More often than not, it's the popular kids who have no intention of doing anything good for the school, but just want to have that prestige over the rest of the student body.

I really don't think a 16-year-old will look into the policies of a candidate, but would rather vote for the candidate that his or her parents will vote for, vote for the candidate who's more popular in school, or vote for the candidate purely in a superficial way, kind of like the way I choose a team for the Superbowl (which one lives closer. :P But other people base it on uniform color lol).

Yes, terrorism still has the same meaning it did 50 years ago. But today, more has been added on to what a "terrorist" is. To the typical modern American, a terrorist is no longer just one who uses violence or the threat of violence to get his point across or to scare or hurt others. To modern America, a sense of racism and racial profiling has entered the picture. Now, a terrorist is, in most cases, your typical radical Islamic man. What used to be a word that I can see being tossed around like many words are tossed around today (i.e. gay, slut, etc.), is now a word that if somebody labeled you as a terrorist, surely you would take offense and see it as a truly horrible thing to say. It has become one of those words you wouldn't even call your mortal enemy because of all of the baggage attached to it. This is why the word "terrorist" is not the same word that it used to be.

I say, don't f@#& with nature. :) I think we are made the way God intended and that we were all made the way we were for a reason. And if you don't believe in God, then replace it with nature. ;)

If the baby endangers the mother's life, then yes, a late-term abortion is justified. Other than that, absolutely not. I don't care if your baby is going to have down syndrome or will be missing a limb or organ! That baby is a human by almost any body's standards and aborting it at that point would surely be murder! I don't like abortion at any point, but getting one that late most likely means that the mother does not want the baby because it will have a defect. If this is the case, that woman should not even be trying to have a child because she is an immoral and selfish person.

I've always loved the movie Jarhead. Really amazing movie about Desert Storm and the like. Awesome shots, especially in the burning oil fields. And it really went into the lives of the soldiers, especially the main character. Duh. :)