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Rules Questions. Amanda Power - 14 views

started by Amanda Power on 15 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
  • Amanda Power
     
    1.In "The Guide Book For Taking A Life" the rules discussed have alot of grey area. Because the rules partain to taking a life, do you feel that these rules should be made more specific and should have less space to justify breaking or bending them, how and why?
    2. In "System Failure" he discusses how there are certain requirments one must follow and have inorder to recieve health care, and how if one does not comply, their healthcare is then revoked, regardless of how or why they did not comply. Do you feel that these rules and regulations on healthcare are to great, or do you feel that it is necessary to have the many rules that they do have? Why?
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Terrorism - Jihad Etiquette - Islam - Militants - Middle East - Iraq - Jordan - Lebanon... - 1 views

  • But before anyone could act on this impulse, the rules of jihadi etiquette kicked in
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      They were in luck. Had these rules not mattered or been in place, they would be dead.
  • the argument is that if the action is just, the collateral damage is justifiable
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Questions on "Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise" - 17 views

started by Xochitl Cruz on 20 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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    Politicians of course use patternicity to their advantage, who would not. They use this to appeal to our emotions, to what we know and how we feel about it. Like Gaby said, they use this to scare people aware of things they want us to be aware of. If things did not appeal to our emotions, if they did not relate to us one way or another, we would not care. Making the connection to us, making us see what we think we see, is important in us having an oppinion on it.
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Questions on Rosling's New Insights On Poverty - 20 views

started by Gaby Ramirez Castorena on 11 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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    I think culture is very important for growth and development. Maybe not culture in the aspect of beliefs, but in the aspects of items of trade. I don't believe i have met anyone who doesn't have something that is from a different culture. We spend money on things we find interesting and that comes from cultural diversity, with out it the world would be very boring and things we buy based on pure interest would be gone. Having differences allows for new ideas, allows for things to be experimented, and quite frankly without it we would not have progressed.
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Questions on Alex Lundry's Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization - 20 views

started by Lauren Petta on 10 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
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    Charts and graphs and numbers are all used to prove a point and to debunk another. Most people don't use them to present unbiased fact, especially in politics. No one is going to point out the flaws in their own plan or thoughts, it's counter productive. It is their job to present us with facts, it is ours to research and figure out just how much is truth and how much is just skewed.
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http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/wiso_vwl/johannes/Ankuendigungen/Berlin_twocon... - 10 views

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      The meaning of freedom has been changed or altered and is now what ever beliefs that have been put into our minds by those before us. Which is exactly what has been shown, we will believe that we are free if we are told it because that is what we know it as. 
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The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

  • surprisingly reluctant to trade a coffee mug they had been given for a bar of chocolate,
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      i would keep my coffee mug too, but not for the reason in which it means more, but in the sense that it is more useful.
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Reconsiderations: John Rawls and Our Plural Nation - June 11, 2008 - The New York Sun - 6 views

shared by Eric Arbuckle on 10 Sep 11 - Cached
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      they have right to, expecially since a greater number of people beleiving in one common thing vote a certain way and thus laws that have a religious basis are passed.
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Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

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      of course children are not going to live very long if they are not properley cared for and checked for diseases after they are born. They miss a treatment window and are unfortunatly killed by the diseases that could have been cured or even prevented.
  • There is no aftercare, Insa explains: no midwife will check up on mother or baby, so Dahara will have to use her own judgment if there are any post-natal problems and seek help if and where she can
  • three weeks early and is slightly underweight
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      if this situation were to happen in niger the baby would have died, and so would the mother if complications with the uterine scar (which would probably have not been seen) had risen.
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  • Niger's women have to pay for the privilege of their substandard, inadequate services
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      I think i would rather have my baby at home than walk all this way to be treated very poorly, possibly not have a midwife, and have to pay.
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