# Great Debates **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/great-debates/13.md?page=769 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 770 --- ## [Was Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor a traitor to his own country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-prince-edward-duke-of-windsor-a-traitor-to-his-own-country/370875)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-prince-edward-duke-of-windsor-a-traitor-to-his-own-country/370875 "2006-09-01T03:27:51Z")
I was reading this fascinating wiki blurb and it mentions Was he really a traitor, or just a blabbermouth, or is all this just mere speculation? --- ## [Is terrorism really a threat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-terrorism-really-a-threat/369729)
**Author:** [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-terrorism-really-a-threat/369729 "2006-09-01T02:01:10Z")
Er, firstly let me say by “is terrorism really a threat,” I mean “is terrorism a threat in nearly the magnitude we believe”. Of course, terrorism is a threat (threat being commonly defined as a range spanning nuclear war… --- ## [Venezuela siezes U.S. diplomatic baggage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-siezes-u-s-diplomatic-baggage/370367)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/venezuela-siezes-u-s-diplomatic-baggage/370367 "2006-08-31T21:22:16Z")
The Venezuelans claim the shipment included “cartridge devices, detonator fuses, rocket motors and pliers,” as well as 80 kilograms of chicken, none of which had gone through customs as required by law. The U.S. admits … --- ## [A Family Affair?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-family-affair/370803)
**Author:** [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-family-affair/370803 "2006-08-31T20:04:47Z")
A profiler expert has disclosed his analysis of the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note. He was careful to draw NO conclusions. IIRC there were no footprints in the snow around the house on the morning of Dec. 26th. Media comm… --- ## [What good are UN resolutions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-are-un-resolutions/370944)
**Author:** [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-are-un-resolutions/370944 "2006-08-31T19:17:26Z")
I was reading today that Iran is over the deadline for compliance with resolution 1696…a resolution demanding Iran halt uranium enrichment. It got me thinking about UN resolutions in general…and ask the question, what g… --- ## [Jews, Mormons, and Posthumous Conversion: Am I Missing Something?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-mormons-and-posthumous-conversion-am-i-missing-something/370741)
**Author:** [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-mormons-and-posthumous-conversion-am-i-missing-something/370741 "2006-08-31T19:13:16Z")
For a number of years, a controversy has been raging in genealogical circles over the practice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints of posthumous baptism. I am concerned for purposes of this discussion, in… --- ## [Do you think the U.S.Gov. makes more money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-the-u-s-gov-makes-more-money/370570)
**Author:** [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-the-u-s-gov-makes-more-money/370570 "2006-08-31T17:48:07Z")
from drugs by keeping them illegal as opposed to them ever being legalized? In other words, which would make the Government more money, making them legal or keeping them illegal? Take into consideration of court fees a… --- ## [Fewer female SCOTUS law clerks this year. Cause for concern?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fewer-female-scotus-law-clerks-this-year-cause-for-concern/370885)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fewer-female-scotus-law-clerks-this-year-cause-for-concern/370885 "2006-08-31T17:12:08Z")
Looks like a statistical blip to me. If it happened again next year, and the year after that, I’d be more concerned. What say you? --- ## ["Double Truth", Christianity, and Evolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-truth-christianity-and-evolution/369096)
**Author:** [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-truth-christianity-and-evolution/369096 "2006-08-31T13:17:18Z")
While reading In the Wake Of the Plague, a fascinating book about the great plagues which hit Europe, I came across a reference to two conflicting ideas which were stirring up theologians in the 14th century. Apparently… --- ## [Will We Run Out Of Oil Soon Enough?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-we-run-out-of-oil-soon-enough/370745)
**Author:** [@Gaines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaines)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-we-run-out-of-oil-soon-enough/370745 "2006-08-31T05:35:52Z")
With all of the problems we are currently facing due to Global Climate Change, and all of the problems we will undoubtably face within the next hundred years, with the seeming inability of the government to regulate, hin… --- ## [Bush 2000: What Were You Hoping For?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-2000-what-were-you-hoping-for/370659)
**Author:** [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-2000-what-were-you-hoping-for/370659 "2006-08-30T20:55:54Z")
This might belong in IMHO, but I figured it would end up here anyway. Besides, I hope it does provoke discussion. People who voted for Bush in 2000, what were you hoping from from his presidency? Economically? Internati… --- ## [Is it better to belong to a stupid demographic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-better-to-belong-to-a-stupid-demographic/370417)
**Author:** [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-better-to-belong-to-a-stupid-demographic/370417 "2006-08-30T16:14:53Z")
The big event movies are generally aimed at teenagers. Many adults are willing to watch movies, yet Hollywood rarely puts effort into serious films for older folks. We might suspect that there’s simply less of an audie… --- ## [Is Rebuilding NOLA feasible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rebuilding-nola-feasible/370684)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rebuilding-nola-feasible/370684 "2006-08-30T14:06:02Z")
Ok, I understand the frustration of the people who want to move back, but consider the obstacles: -private insurance in flood zones is almost prohibatively expensive -the city of NOLA is sinking, due to subsiding subso… --- ## [A Theory of Prostitution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-of-prostitution/370658)
**Author:** [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-of-prostitution/370658 "2006-08-30T13:51:52Z")
I stumbled across this paper by two economists, Lena Edlund of Columbia University and Evelyn Korn of Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, which claims that wives and prostitutes, in an economic perspective, are essentia… --- ## [60 Minutes with Ahmadinejad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-with-ahmadinejad/368607)
**Author:** [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-with-ahmadinejad/368607 "2006-08-30T13:38:51Z")
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was interviewed by Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes tonight. I’m as gullible as the next person about taking political statements and political leaders at face value, but I had an epiphan… --- ## [Rapex](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapex/370390)
**Author:** [@Jumbo\_Jet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumbo_Jet)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapex/370390 "2006-08-30T00:58:13Z")
Check out http://rapestop.net It talks about Rapex, a device which a woman can insert into her vagina that will sink barbs into a mans penis if he tries to have sex with her. I think this is a terrible idea. What if a… --- ## [Op-tion-al il-lu-sions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op-tion-al-il-lu-sions/370310)
**Author:** [@coberst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coberst)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/op-tion-al-il-lu-sions/370310 "2006-08-29T15:58:15Z")
Op-tion-al il-lu-sions Accept or reject are not the only options one has. The most important and generally overlooked, especially by the young, is the option to ‘hold’. It appears to me that many young people consid… --- ## [A Strong Leader](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-strong-leader/370172)
**Author:** [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-strong-leader/370172 "2006-08-29T15:22:24Z")
A few weeks ago, President Bush criticized President Putin for the Russian form of democracy that they use. Now, a poll was taken afterwards that said that Russians like having a strong leader, as opposed to a democrat… --- ## [Jon Benet Ramsey murder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-benet-ramsey-murder/355071)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Rogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Rogers)\ **Replies:** 151\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-benet-ramsey-murder/355071 "2006-08-29T14:21:44Z")
Innocent Jon Benet Ramsey would have been 16 years old this August 2006. DNA has been out for 15 years now. You would think this day in age they could catch the murderer(s). Obviously the Denver police does not watch CS… --- ## [This is my land! (not)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-land-not/370504)
**Author:** [@coberst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coberst)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-my-land-not/370504 "2006-08-29T11:49:58Z")
This is my land! (not) Stewardship-- the conducting, supervising, or managing of something… the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one’s care… Stewardship is a word used often in the Bible and… --- ## [Aids Prevention. Whats wrong with ABC?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aids-prevention-whats-wrong-with-abc/369421)
**Author:** [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aids-prevention-whats-wrong-with-abc/369421 "2006-08-29T11:37:49Z")
I wasn’t impressed with the tone of the International AIDS Conference recently held in Toronto. I’m fairly certain positive things were accomplished that weren’t reported, but what I did see and hear would indicate a lot… --- ## [Has the new Dark Age finally arrived? Catholic Church may condemn Evolution.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-new-dark-age-finally-arrived-catholic-church-may-condemn-evolution/311790)
**Author:** [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-new-dark-age-finally-arrived-catholic-church-may-condemn-evolution/311790 "2006-08-29T06:57:24Z")
It looks like the new pope has now allied himself with the ID crowd. --- ## [CS Lewis, Christianity, and Saint Paul](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cs-lewis-christianity-and-saint-paul/370249)
**Author:** [@pragmatic55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pragmatic55)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cs-lewis-christianity-and-saint-paul/370249 "2006-08-28T20:23:18Z")
I have found it rather difficult to rationally support the doctrines of Christianity and I hope this thread will lead others to posting their reasons for belief. I very much take issue with some apologists, mainly CS Lew… --- ## [What would have happened to Judaism w/o Christianity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-happened-to-judaism-w-o-christianity/370546)
**Author:** [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-happened-to-judaism-w-o-christianity/370546 "2006-08-28T19:58:06Z")
Suppose a messianic cult based around Jesus of Nazareth had never sprung up in 1st and 2nd century Palestine, spreading around the Roman Empire over the next several centuries. Do you think Judaism, as a religion and na… --- ## [are the US media to biased toward Israel ? (video)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-us-media-to-biased-toward-israel-video/368820)
**Author:** [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Replies:** 198\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-us-media-to-biased-toward-israel-video/368820 "2006-08-28T19:52:20Z")
This is a very interesting documentary about the American media and how they are accused of being very biased in this conflict It shows how US networks uses words like community instead of settler colony to describe set… --- ## [Washington Redskins - Time to change the name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-redskins-time-to-change-the-name/368362)
**Author:** [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washington-redskins-time-to-change-the-name/368362 "2006-08-28T19:23:59Z")
Article here For those who don’t know, the Washington Redskins are a football team in the US. And by football, I mean American football, not World Cup football :slight\_smile: Over the years there have been many attemp… --- ## [An eye for an eye, a nuke for a nuke?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-eye-for-an-eye-a-nuke-for-a-nuke/370304)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-eye-for-an-eye-a-nuke-for-a-nuke/370304 "2006-08-28T19:13:49Z")
A nuclear bomb goes off in downtown Los Angeles. Several hundred thousand people are killed instantly, the death toll from the fires, damage, radiation sickness, etc reaches 7 digits. This wasn’t a missle attack, th… --- ## [Is this war crime ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-war-crime/369472)
**Author:** [@Wildfire\_MM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildfire_MM)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-war-crime/369472 "2006-08-28T19:10:08Z")
Video from Iraq 3 insurgents are killed by US helicopter. The last one was hurt and then blown to pieces --- ## [Interviewing Conspiracy Theorists: Irresponsible Journalism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interviewing-conspiracy-theorists-irresponsible-journalism/368955)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interviewing-conspiracy-theorists-irresponsible-journalism/368955 "2006-08-28T17:27:56Z")
I was listening to KROQ (a local rock radio staion in Los Angeles) and they were interviewing the guy who created the documentary “Loose Change” which is a “documentray” highlighting the U.S. government complicity in the… --- ## [CFCs BAD, pool chlorine... eh?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfcs-bad-pool-chlorine-eh/370442)
**Author:** [@Placid\_Liver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Placid_Liver)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cfcs-bad-pool-chlorine-eh/370442 "2006-08-28T15:27:28Z")
There was a lot of fuss about refrigerant and aerosol propelant gases killing the ozone layer, surely chlorine used to keep swimming pools clean also gets into the atmosphere and causes problems too? Why has there not be… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/great-debates/13.md?page=768) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/great-debates/13.md?page=770)