A person's definition of a "person" is a matter of opinion. I don't consider an embrio to be a person if the deffinition is a walking, breathing, sentient being. However what is undeniable about an embrio is that it is living and has the potential to be a person. I personally am against most forms of embrio manipulation, cloning, embrionic stem cell research, etc. because an embrio has the potential to be a person and I do not think it is anyones right to take that away from it. Besides, who knows, we could kill the next Einstein or Mozart.
With the exception of the "why lie," which certainly may have been a lie, I'm not clear on the facts regarding that one, Bush is simply stating intelligence that was given to him regarding WMDs in Iraq. Granted, Bush may not have been telling the truth as we know it now but at that time it was the best information available to him. To say Bush was lying regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq whould be like saying that anyone in history who ever said the world was flat was a liar. As we know now they were not telling the truth but they were not consciously lying. I am not saying Bush has never lied but on issues like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq he was simply stating and acting on the best intelligence available to him.
"The more the idea takes hold in my mind, the easier it is to see examples of what cowardly bullies Americans are."
That seems like a bit of a generality. I'm sure most American's would agree that a felony charge is way over the top. I could see him gettin some community service but this should not follow him the rest of his life.
It takes greater force to prevent a war than it does to win one. The fact that the US had the capability to annhialate a large city anywhere in the world at a moments notice was a huge deterant to hostile nations that may have considered military action against the US.
Even so, this was only one area in virtually the entire area of Eastern Asia. The fact of the matter is that the the Japanese killed a comparable number of civilians to the number the Nazis killed in the holocaust.
What about the attrocities that the Japanese comitted in Eastern Asia, what about the prisoners of war the Japanese tortured or more often just executed. Its war, cities get bombed, its not a good thing but neither is war.
As horriffic as the results of the droping of the atomic bomb were it was a necissary evil. I'm sure the crew members of the plane are not proud of what they did, but it was their duty and they did it. Without the droping of the atomic bomb the war would have gone on for years and the Japanese would have continued the their attrocities in Eastern Asia. Easily as many allied soldiers would have lost their lives as the number of people killed by the atomic bombs. IMHO -- Additionally, the dropping of the atomic bomb by the US porobably prevented the Cold War between the US and Russia from escalating into a nuclear war. Because of the devastating results of the dropping of the bombin World War II, both countries in the cold war were reluctant to use nuclear weapons because they had seen the amount of devastation they caused. If they atomic bomb had never been dropped in World War II, durring the Cold War there would have been two countries, US and Russia, with thousands of such bombs and without the knowledge of the sheer destuctive power of the weapons, a dangerous combination. The reality is that the Atomic bomb had to be dropped at some point and fotunately for the world it was dropped when there was no way any other country retaliating with nuclear weapons, as this wound have led to nuclear war.
Microsoft has been doing what you say for years. Ironically, though the masses serve as a free testing ground for they're generally shoddy products they never really seem to get a whole lot better.
Yeah and why not instead of curing people form cancer stop them from getting it in the first place, or instead of fighting wars why don't we just stop them from ever happening. [sarcasm]... I'm sure EVERYONE, even all those corporates out there, would agree that getting rid of smog all together would be optimal, but its not like there is a feasible/reasonable way of doing so.
So, I'm assuming you don't drive a car, you mow your lawn with a push reel, grow your own food, and make your own clothes....Thanks for doing your part to make the world a cleaner place.
The reality is in a consumer market the corporation only survives if the consumer allows it. Every time you start up the car, take a nice hot shower, or put on a brand new "save the planet" T-shirt your allowing corporations to pollute.
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A person's definition of a "person" is a matter of opinion. I don't consider an embrio to be a person if the deffinition is a walking, breathing, sentient being. However what is undeniable about an embrio is that it is living and has the potential to be a person. I personally am against most forms of embrio manipulation, cloning, embrionic stem cell research, etc. because an embrio has the potential to be a person and I do not think it is anyones right to take that away from it. Besides, who knows, we could kill the next Einstein or Mozart.
With the exception of the "why lie," which certainly may have been a lie, I'm not clear on the facts regarding that one, Bush is simply stating intelligence that was given to him regarding WMDs in Iraq. Granted, Bush may not have been telling the truth as we know it now but at that time it was the best information available to him. To say Bush was lying regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq whould be like saying that anyone in history who ever said the world was flat was a liar. As we know now they were not telling the truth but they were not consciously lying. I am not saying Bush has never lied but on issues like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq he was simply stating and acting on the best intelligence available to him.
Microsoft innovation at work.
While it is a known fact that Earth's global temperature is rising, it being entirely or even substantially man's fault is far from proven fact.
Could you give a specific example?
That seems like a bit of a generality. I'm sure most American's would agree that a felony charge is way over the top. I could see him gettin some community service but this should not follow him the rest of his life.
It takes greater force to prevent a war than it does to win one. The fact that the US had the capability to annhialate a large city anywhere in the world at a moments notice was a huge deterant to hostile nations that may have considered military action against the US.
Its much easier, or less difficult rather, to maintain a marketshare than it is to build one.
Even so, this was only one area in virtually the entire area of Eastern Asia. The fact of the matter is that the the Japanese killed a comparable number of civilians to the number the Nazis killed in the holocaust.
What about the attrocities that the Japanese comitted in Eastern Asia, what about the prisoners of war the Japanese tortured or more often just executed. Its war, cities get bombed, its not a good thing but neither is war.
As horriffic as the results of the droping of the atomic bomb were it was a necissary evil. I'm sure the crew members of the plane are not proud of what they did, but it was their duty and they did it. Without the droping of the atomic bomb the war would have gone on for years and the Japanese would have continued the their attrocities in Eastern Asia. Easily as many allied soldiers would have lost their lives as the number of people killed by the atomic bombs. IMHO -- Additionally, the dropping of the atomic bomb by the US porobably prevented the Cold War between the US and Russia from escalating into a nuclear war. Because of the devastating results of the dropping of the bombin World War II, both countries in the cold war were reluctant to use nuclear weapons because they had seen the amount of devastation they caused. If they atomic bomb had never been dropped in World War II, durring the Cold War there would have been two countries, US and Russia, with thousands of such bombs and without the knowledge of the sheer destuctive power of the weapons, a dangerous combination. The reality is that the Atomic bomb had to be dropped at some point and fotunately for the world it was dropped when there was no way any other country retaliating with nuclear weapons, as this wound have led to nuclear war.
Microsoft has been doing what you say for years. Ironically, though the masses serve as a free testing ground for they're generally shoddy products they never really seem to get a whole lot better.
Yeah and why not instead of curing people form cancer stop them from getting it in the first place, or instead of fighting wars why don't we just stop them from ever happening. [sarcasm] ... I'm sure EVERYONE, even all those corporates out there, would agree that getting rid of smog all together would be optimal, but its not like there is a feasible/reasonable way of doing so.
So, I'm assuming you don't drive a car, you mow your lawn with a push reel, grow your own food, and make your own clothes. ...Thanks for doing your part to make the world a cleaner place.
The reality is in a consumer market the corporation only survives if the consumer allows it. Every time you start up the car, take a nice hot shower, or put on a brand new "save the planet" T-shirt your allowing corporations to pollute.