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anyone else find irony in having govt restrictions on trade discussed in relation to a country where one of the main criticisms is communism?

the issue that that attitude creates is that your position is then based upon religious elements, however, you then say that some parts of your stance are not allowed to be discussed and questioned. by the fact you've used religion as a justification, it is now a part of this because the...

nope

yeah, but with sex, clearly you have some control over creation of life, just not all of it. similarly, there are no certainties with medical techniques, even though usually they are highly reliable. there's still some uncertainty that a procedure won't work. now, given the view on...

nope, just making a tangental point

so, does that mean choosing to have sex is playing god because that creates life? if God also endowed us with a brain, aren't we allowed to see what we can accomplish with it?

how can there have been drive bys with gun control laws?

the u.s. didn't help set up Israel....that would be the team of U.K. and the U.N.

to more or less echo the views about playing god.... humans have been playing god as long as we've had agriculture and domesticated animals.

so, if we can't try to export democracy, do we also not have to export aid in the form of money or food?

there have been multiple mountains for that claim, over time. there is nothing at all conclusive there

considering that in the U.S. an emergency room can not turn someone away, and there are gov't plans for low income families, i'm not sure where the heck you're getting your views of american health care

its that i would theorise that canadian english shares greater similarities with the united states than with either australia or england, hense my theory that 'bloody' is equally unused in canada

not neccessarily.....its not common at all for the us, and i'd suspect canada would be similar

well, i would point out that plenty of poor parents DON'T care about their kids education, but then you can't get the gov't to make someon prioritise an education if they're not getting that message at home

the whole idea of the right of privacy isn't that you're allowed to hide things you're doing that are wrong, but that you are able to conduct parts of your life in private without having to worry you're being watched or monitored

i'm WELL aware of what happened at Abu Gharib, and i support 100% the full punishment of those involved, its behavior taht definitly shouldn't be tolerated. however what happened is a FAR cry from being raped by a dog. and my question about how many soldiers are killing civilians...

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its more that taht generalisation about the poor and/or uneducated was so blatantly wrong i figured that would be clear, so i was focusing more on your claims relating to america as for the number graduating, checking the most recent census itself, that does put it at 75% still, not th 70%...

wow.... where to begin. first of all, you're saying that the worst poverty in the world is in the u.s.? have you even considered at all many asian, african, latin american countries? probably even eastern europe? theres no comparison to be made that poverty in the u.s. is on par with that...