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Comment on Remembering Jackie McLean by Amie Dejarnette

Amie Dejarnette — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:57:51 +0000

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Comment on Hiroshima by csocci

csocci — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:08:46 +0000

Yes, you are correct in stating Save American Lives – my problem is that is it ever ethical to sacrifice one innocent life for another? Regardless of the possibility that cancer rates have killed millions more people since the initial blast – is it every ok to sacrifice one innocent group of people to save another?

My question might be different if they weapon had been used against a Japanese fleet somewhere as a demonstration of power. My problem is that they detonated the thing over a City of innocent people.

Stated another way – suppose the United States came under the influence of a Hitler or Hirohito? Would it be OK for Canada to drop an atomic weapon on downtown Manhattan and instantly vaporize a million people – because it would stop the war? What if Canada showed us that within five year’s time span an additional five million innocent people would die at the hands of the US. Would it still be OK to kill all those innocent people? Is it ever just to kill one innocent person to save 5?

Is it ever ethical to kill anyone for any reason? Protecting the innocent and weak from the guilty and powerful are noble causes.

Comment on Hiroshima by luis jimenez

luis jimenez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:43:26 +0000

i think they meant to “save america lives”….

Comment on Michael by Crystal D.

Crystal D. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:19:03 +0000

I felt odd when I found out he’d died. It was quite a shock.

Comment on Us and Them by jhenrikson

jhenrikson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:00:53 +0000

Michael Gazzaniga is a Professor of Psychology and the Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California Santa Barbara. He oversees an extensive and broad research program investigating how the brain enables the mind.

He will be speaking at Chautauqua Institution (www.ciweb.org) in Chautauqua, NY, on Tuesday, July 28. It will definately be worth the trip. There are also many other events that week that may be of interest to you and your readers. The hotel on the grounds still has many rooms available for this week, but they will be reserved quickly. Here is the Web site: http://www.ciweb.org/athenaeum-home/

Comment on Religulous – I’m giving Bill Maher’s Movie an F by csocci

csocci — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:13:03 +0000

Thanks Taylor,

I guess we can give him a few extra points for bravery…

Comment on Religulous – I’m giving Bill Maher’s Movie an F by Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:23:04 +0000

Valid points, but the three major religions of the world are a tough subject to attack. It’s basically the ideological equivalent of attacking three gorillas with a butter knife, even in the 21st century. And Mr. Maher did a pretty damn good job attacking them. It may not have been perfect, but for a short (and comedic) documentary, it wasn’t too bad.

Comment on The Teenager Audio Test by Crystal D.

Crystal D. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:21:04 +0000

I could hear it, and it kind of hurt.

Comment on Fire and Brimstone in the Subway by faux

faux — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:01:36 +0000

a year and a half later, this is still entirely true.

i found this through searching. i feel so much anger at this table. every day i do something little. i kick over a sign or twenty. i step on something. i take out my paint-pen and scribble across their tables, sometimes satanic symbols on their signs just for shiggles. i plan more elabortate plots and grow more balls each time. i smile sweetly as i do it. they cant touch me, transit police wont touch me, i love the power.

i also love the accordianist.

Comment on Time Machine by csocci

csocci — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:20:24 +0000

Thanks Uruk… I can only hope/imagine that there are limitless possibilites…