Another great thing about internet friendships is the amazing ability of two people to become close without ever touching or even seeing each other. The idea that pure language has the ability to bond two people together is quite amazing. I think

Thanks so much for you input! You should register and post more often. Don't feel bad about posting at work...I do it a lot! I thought your example of the child warriors was very interesting. But something bothers me about this situation.

You mean electric chairs or aliens? My feelings on the death penalty are mixed. As for aliens, slaughter could be part of their reproductive cycle for all we know. I think if humans ever made contact with intelligent alien life, we could never

I guess I didn't think it through before, but riddle me this... Rommie, you gave an example some time back about 9/10 people in a room of 10 people wanting to kill the last person. Are they justified? Put aside the reason they want to kill that

What I believe is irrelovant. What IS, whether fate or free will, is impossible to discern, so there's not much point trying to decide. I never really understood why this topic has caused so much debate over the centuries. Will not life go on

I think the main point we were beating around the bush earlier on is that I have a part of me that hates making subjective judgements. If I have to make a subjective judgement, I want to rationally exclude as many options as I can before I do

This thread doesn't have nearly as many posts as some of the others. Maybe we should let it linger a little. I think the rebels were not terrorists in the modern sense. They usually complied with the rules of war that we have on earth while

"The Great War" The European powers that became involved in the first world war did so of their own accord, and for pretty foolish reasons. It is always easy to assign blame in retrospect, but if Russia had not declared war on Austria-Hungary

If you are better qualified for the job or education, you should get it. If the winning candidate is disproportionately from one race or another, that problem needs to be addressed long before the point where people are competing for college

Engrish... A hilarious phenomenon to be sure. Usually, east asian examples are cited, but I have seen some from pakistan and mexico too. For classic examples, see www.engrish.com (updated daily Monday - Friday!) I really think this is