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Do you object to gay couples adopting?

Would you allow gay people to adopt?

  • Yes

    Votes: 60 59.4%

  • No

    Votes: 41 40.6%
  • Total voters
    101
Tucker Case said:
It's not really applicable in this case because the reality doesn't shift according to one's point of view. Color is always the reflection of light.

Just because silver is used to create the mirror, doesn't mean the mirror is silver. The practical applications of that reality is why such things as reflective telescopes actually work for such applications as spectral analysis of stars to determine their chemical composition.

The absence of an intrinsic color to a mirror precisely why such practical applications can exist. :mrgreen:
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Again you are arguing light, which I cannot disagree with you. I, however, am arguing from a material standpoint. If you take a polished stainless steel mirror and put a sander to it, what color does the sanded surface then become?
 
Southern Man said:
Again you are arguing light, which I cannot disagree with you. I, however, am arguing from a material standpoint. If you take a polished stainless steel mirror and put a sander to it, what color does the sanded surface then become?
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The sanded surface is not a mirror. What color it becomes is irrelevant because the question is regarding a mirror, which cannot exist in the sanded surface.

That's a practical reality. If I make a house, it is a house. If I destroy a house, it is no longer a house.

The same is true with mirrors.
 
Tucker Case said:
The sanded surface is not a mirror. What color it becomes is irrelevant because the question is regarding a mirror, which cannot exist in the sanded surface.

That's a practical reality. If I make a house, it is a house. If I destroy a house, it is no longer a house.

The same is true with mirrors.
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Interesting twist. I, however, would argue that the mirror or house is still a mirror or house, albeit in a damaged condition.
 
Southern Man said:
Take a glass mirror out of its frame, flip it over, and what color do you see?
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It would depend on what's on the back of the mirror. It isn't a mirror if it doesn't reflect so the back of the mirror is again, not part of the mirror itself.



Let's ask this: Look at the following mirror:

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What colors are in the mirror?
 
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Southern Man said:
Interesting twist. I, however, would argue that the mirror or house is still a mirror or house, albeit in a damaged condition.
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That's an impractical point of view. If the house is destroyed, it serves no house-like functions.

Further more, if the house were painted blue, and then it was destroyed, what color would it be? Would it still be a blue house, even though it now is a multi-colored pile of rubble?
 
This thread is kinda whack. It asks the question, "Do you object to gay couples adopting?" and you come in thinking, "Click No." But then the poll asks, "Would you allow gay people to adopt." Which, in my case, would be a "Yes." I almost clicked "no" by accident.
 
Captain America said:
This thread is kinda whack. It asks the question, "Do you object to gay couples adopting?" and you come in thinking, "Click No." But then the poll asks, "Would you allow gay people to adopt." Which, in my case, would be a "Yes." I almost clicked "no" by accident.
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Sexuality is very confusing. :mrgreen:
 
Tucker Case said:
That's an impractical point of view. If the house is destroyed, it serves no house-like functions.

Further more, if the house were painted blue, and then it was destroyed, what color would it be? Would it still be a blue house, even though it now is a multi-colored pile of rubble?
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Dude, you got way too much time on your hands. You need to get your ass back in the tavern. :rofl
 
Captain America said:
Dude, you got way too much time on your hands. You need to get your ass back in the tavern. :rofl
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:rofl


If there is any single subject I might be considered an expert on, it would be color and the human perception of color. I studied both physics and psychology in college as well as spent TONS of time on my own researching the issue from both of those perspectives.

The fascination stems entirely from my own inability to perceive color correctly.
 
Tucker Case said:
I learned to use my left hand for mouse manipulation.










Pun fully intended.
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:rofl


I broke my right arm in two places when I was fifteen. That is when I discovered "the stranger".
 
Tucker Case said:
That's an impractical point of view. If the house is destroyed, it serves no house-like functions.

Further more, if the house were painted blue, and then it was destroyed, what color would it be? Would it still be a blue house, even though it now is a multi-colored pile of rubble?
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Actually, it would still serve at least one function of a house, especially if adequately insured, as it would still be part of the owner's financial portfolio. If it was painted blue and the paint burned off then we are arguing about the paint, not the house. Either way we are now arguing the analogy, not the real issue that we are arguing about.

Back to the stainless steel mirror. If you only sanded 1/2 of it, the sanded portion would show the base metal color as silver, but the undamaged portion could still be used as a mirror.
 
Tucker Case said:
It would depend on what's on the back of the mirror. It isn't a mirror if it doesn't reflect so the back of the mirror is again, not part of the mirror itself.



Let's ask this: Look at the following mirror:

Mirror.jpg


What colors are in the mirror?
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Lots of colors are in the mirror, but I'm talking about the mirror itself, not what it reflects. If you take the mirror out of its frame and strip off any backing to the back of the reflective layer, you will see it is a dull silver pigment, which of course, is part of the mirror. Otherwise it would be a sheet of glass, which is truly colorless.
 
Tucker Case said:
:rofl


If there is any single subject I might be considered an expert on, it would be color and the human perception of color. I studied both physics and psychology in college as well as spent TONS of time on my own researching the issue from both of those perspectives.

The fascination stems entirely from my own inability to perceive color correctly.
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Then 'splain this to me Lucy. They say in outdoor magazines that it matters not if a hunter is wearing blaze orange in the woods because the whitetail deer only sees things in shades of gray. I want to know which whitetail deer told them that?
 
Tucker Case said:
The sanded surface is not a mirror. What color it becomes is irrelevant because the question is regarding a mirror, which cannot exist in the sanded surface.

That's a practical reality. If I make a house, it is a house. If I destroy a house, it is no longer a house.

The same is true with mirrors.
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No, no no. You can re-polish the damaged mirror, and rebuild the damaged house. And you can do so with right, left, or both hands.
 
Captain America said:
Then 'splain this to me Lucy. They say in outdoor magazines that it matters not if a hunter is wearing blaze orange in the woods because the whitetail deer only sees things in shades of gray. I want to know which whitetail deer told them that?
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It is a common misconception that certain mammals, such as dogs, cannot see colors. But my dog would rather get a brown colored treat than a green one.
 
Here ya go Fido.

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Southern Man said:
It is a common misconception that certain mammals, such as dogs, cannot see colors. But my dog would rather get a brown colored treat than a green one.
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They probably smell different.
 
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