YouTube to Host Presidential Debate

skotte writes "Wired is reporting that July 23 at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, Anderson Cooper will host presidential debates in which debaters are asked 20-30 questions culled from a specially designated section of YouTube, where the voting populace can post questions directly. You and I (assuming you're American, probably) can ask questions ourselves, not just a reporter in a crowd. Candidates won't know which questions they are being asked, and the video selection process will remain a complete secret. Interesting, but also the slightest bit scary."

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Re:Been done before

[drinkypoo]

You can tell a lot about a society when they're willing to kill living tissue that _will_ one day become a human being

Something like 50% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, usually without the woman's knowledge that she was ever pregnant.

There is also substantial disagreement as to when life begins. You obviously do not share the view that it begins at conception, as you said "will one day become a human being" (hint: Slashdot allows a subset of HTML and you can use underlines, you need not use the underscore character, this ain't 1990 and this ain't a BBS) so I am curious, after what date do you believe there is a person in there?

Not to mention that there are lots of things that can end a pregnancy in progress and prevent a live birth from ever occurring - and I'm talking "natural" causes here (man-made toxins unintentionally introduced into the body must be counted as "natural" for the purposes of this conversation.)

simply because of a minor inconvenience

Minor to you. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're male...