TED Community » Davie Webb
About Me
In short, I am a 25 year old English Brit from Worcestershire. I have a post graduate Geography Degree and I am currently on a career break exploring Asia and the South Pacific. I have a thirst for knowledge which is overwhelming. I have always questioned everything. I feel science is the only method by which questions can be answered.
- Location:
- United Kingdom, Worcester
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- Geography, Global politics, climate change / environment / sustainable development, Travel and Exploration, evolution
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plate tectonics, political geography, atheism, darwinism, evoluton, climate change, urban landscapes, social inequalities, the Universe, travel, modern warfare, colonialism, physics
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It sickens me to the core how in today's modern, developed and advanced society that religion is still plagueing the minds of the human race. why is it that it is only faith that doesn't need to be supported with evidence? In a methodical, logical world - we should be no-believers and the religions fraudsters should have to convince us with unquestionable evidence that there is a superior creater. for now, i look to science. science asks questions, answers them and discovers new questions! science is the only thing that can fully satisfy the human attributes of curiosity and wonder.
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plate tectonics, political geography, atheism, darwinism, evoluton, climate change, urban landscapes, social inequalities, the Universe, travel, modern warfare, colonialism, physics, the environment
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A reply on Conversation: Should Drugs be Legalised?
i feel the major traffickers should be targeted and the drug users helped not punished.
what good? probably none. but what is the lesser of the two evils? whats happening at the minute is not working. so, a radical reform might be the only alternative.
A reply on Conversation: Should Drugs be Legalised?
at the minute most harmful drugs, are illegal and we are spending an ansaly large sum of money annually across the globe in enforcing it and the fact is, it is not working.
as for banning nicotine and alcohol, they are too entrenched into our social lives now after centuries of indulging and now it is absolutely irreversible.
do you not at all feel even the slightest that it would be in the best interests for the greater community that the money squandered on the drug users to let people make their own minds up about what they want to do to themselves? why does there need to be complete control? we are all humans, all individuals. the more rules there are the more rules will be broken.
i am not in favor of drugs at all but i do feel that the current situation can not continue.
people should be helped not punished. police time and money should go into the major traffickers not the small time street corner yob. the police could then get back to doing real police work and making community's feel safer.
A reply on Conversation: Should Drugs be Legalised?
A reply on Conversation: When, how, and why did you become an atheist?
we just have our eyes open is all.
A comment on Conversation: When, how, and why did you become an atheist?
I remember a few of my earliest questions:
Why is there no talk of dinosaurs in the bible?
surely, no ark would be big enough for all those animals from all those continents?
Heaven: everyone would be old?!
Who's god side is god on during a war?
they got me thinking outside the box. then I got hooked to animal documentaries, many of which talked about the miracles of evolution. piece by piece i learned about the advances in science and it's endless, relentless search for answers and the opposing, impossible blind faith. a celebrating atheist i became.
A comment on Conversation: killing one person to save two people, is it ok?
could you pick up a gun and kill a child if it meant the world would be rid of cancer and aids?
could you drop a bomb on a village of 100 innocent people if it meant 1000 in the next village would survive?
i dont think i could drop that bomb or fire that gun.
A comment on Conversation: What if the role of president was divided into 6 people, and they had to come to a consensus?
secondly, you need a strong president. one who can act on a whim and you entrust to make vital, fast decisions on our behalf. with more than 1 president, nothing would get done. too much time talking and disagreeing instead of tackling the major issues we would need them to.
thirdly, it is too complicated. the president has to get approval from congress and the US senate in the US i think already! if there was debates before debates - it would be too complicated and again, nothing would get done.
A comment on Conversation: Do you have a suggestion for TED? Something we could do better?
i think notifications when people comment on your questions/ideas/debates and also if people directly respond to your post. i comment on a lot, i love TED and i forget most of them so i miss the response and a further chance of an informed and opinionated debate.
A reply on Conversation: What is your favourite book? If several - choose the best (or the worst)!
it's not amazing, but i enjoyed it simply because i was in deep with the characters involved. it's not a patch on the first but i enjoyed it all the same.
excellent, let me no what u think! there has not been a single person (out of about a dozen) who has not throughly enjoyed the book!
A comment on Conversation: Consider this.
but your question trumps even the worlds most elaborate and sophisticated minds..
How can there be nothing, there must be something for there to be anything?
if the Universe will expand untill every single atom is pulled apart from another, when does the pull contact? why does it contract? why is it pulling and contracting? what drives it?
eeekkk.... i think there is steam coming from my ears.... haha