If the parents couldn't support children they should have made the right decisions and (gasp!) _not had kids_!
Perhaps they had hope for the future.
Nevermind the fact the economy requires that for every rich person you have many poor people. For every mansion you need people to clean, cook, garden, etc. For every city you need street cleaners, police officers, etc. For every mcdonalds you need a dozen people with mcjobs.
It is cruel to declare that those people have a responsability not to have children.
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Seriosly, what features do people use in Word? I've only ever used - Bold, Italics, Underline - Single/Double spacing - Left/Center/Right Align - Page breaks - Footnotes - Font/Point Size adjustment - Pagination - Spell check (though not grammer check) - I'm probably missing one or two
I know some people who use images in word documents, as well as that 'track changes' feature. But 99% of the features are useless to me. I'd be perfectly happy with Word v.5 (for mac), though it doesn't run natively on OSX.
since World War II, it's been almost universally agreed upon that those who give orders are, at the very least, just as responsible for the consequences as those who execute them
The moral that came out of WWII was the opposite of this - that those who execute orders are just as responsible as those give them. Nazis were fond of giving the excuse 'I was just following orders' when accused of war crimes. The Nuremberg trials established the precendent that such an excuse is not valid; it is the duty of anyone who is given an illegal order to refuse it.
The US Army is an All Volunteer Force. The people who are serving in the army in Iraq all chose to join the army of their own free will, knowing that they would be send wherever the president thought they should go. They knew that they could be ordered on suicidal missions, or be ordered to do any amount of damage to other people short of breaking the Geneva conventions.
While they didn't specifically choose to go to Iraq, they are still responsable for being there.
My personal outlook on the army has always been this: I will not join until my services are needed in a war I consider just. In any other situation, I would be opening myself up to being ordered to go somewhere or do something I consider unjust.
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Perhaps they had hope for the future.
Nevermind the fact the economy requires that for every rich person you have many poor people. For every mansion you need people to clean, cook, garden, etc. For every city you need street cleaners, police officers, etc. For every mcdonalds you need a dozen people with mcjobs.
It is cruel to declare that those people have a responsability not to have children.
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This is absurdSeriosly, what features do people use in Word?
I've only ever used
- Bold, Italics, Underline
- Single/Double spacing
- Left/Center/Right Align
- Page breaks
- Footnotes
- Font/Point Size adjustment
- Pagination
- Spell check (though not grammer check)
- I'm probably missing one or two
I know some people who use images in word documents, as well as that 'track changes' feature. But 99% of the features are useless to me. I'd be perfectly happy with Word v.5 (for mac), though it doesn't run natively on OSX.
The moral that came out of WWII was the opposite of this - that those who execute orders are just as responsible as those give them. Nazis were fond of giving the excuse 'I was just following orders' when accused of war crimes. The Nuremberg trials established the precendent that such an excuse is not valid; it is the duty of anyone who is given an illegal order to refuse it.
The US Army is an All Volunteer Force. The people who are serving in the army in Iraq all chose to join the army of their own free will, knowing that they would be send wherever the president thought they should go. They knew that they could be ordered on suicidal missions, or be ordered to do any amount of damage to other people short of breaking the Geneva conventions.
While they didn't specifically choose to go to Iraq, they are still responsable for being there.
My personal outlook on the army has always been this: I will not join until my services are needed in a war I consider just. In any other situation, I would be opening myself up to being ordered to go somewhere or do something I consider unjust.
Because it's an interesting question?