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benny

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  1. You will never see a forum closing after some legal decision because forum participants learn more about what stable social relationships require than any of your so called "legal experts".
  2. Drugs is one reason why children stop thinking about their future well before knowing what philosophy has to offer.
  3. The Gazette (Canwest) knows that to sell newspaper, you have to concoct divisions.
  4. Anywhere, other than prison, distractions are too easily disturbing the thinking process.
  5. In 1491, overpopulation was already a problem in Europe.
  6. Bush and Cheney were not afraid of overpopulating America because they needed so much soldiers to wage all their pompous wars.
  7. Don't wary about that so much! When free, people like Khadr often find solace in studying law and becoming lawyer.
  8. Profiteers enslave people by putting offices/stores in fields.
  9. Holocausts (human sacrifices) were once very common practices in both pre-Columbian societies and Western societies.
  10. Mature people, and especially lawyers, should know that a child always represents a fresh beginning for the World. There is no good country, no good laws, no good prisons, where mature people lose touch of their childhood.
  11. A prison is a place where people have all their time to think about what freedom and willpower are all about.
  12. To me, nothing can be more politically unwise than repeating that the government has no right to tell citizens what they can do.
  13. Pot is also not that different for a (invisible) jail.
  14. Forget a minute about Americans, the poll was from a random sample of Canadians.
  15. Comparing two substances is not evaluating them.
  16. Governments of rich countries are caught in a nasty and enduring commercial war over agricultural export subsidies so much so that they have come to compromise by paying farmers for not producing (crops).
  17. A New Zealand study showed that people who carried a particular variety of a gene called catechol-o-methyl transferase (a gene involved in the synthesis of the brain chemical dopamine), were about 11 times more likely to develop schizophrenia if they used marijuana. http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1441
  18. Until the trial has not been concluded, we cannot know if he was once an offender.
  19. For the divisions there are in our society, ask not to natural sciences but to social sciences if they can do something. To solve what is dividing physicists' community, particle accelerators will never be big enough.
  20. Boredom is also what push people on forum to have fun at the expense of all those proposing solutions.
  21. Before the Greeks invented political philosophy, drugs were used only to communicate with spirits.
  22. Forbidding overwork and helping dysfunctional families would be dealing with the problem at its source.
  23. The term holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holókauston, meaning a " whole (holos) burnt (kaustos)" sacrificial offering to a god. Its Latin form (holocaustum) was first used with specific reference to a massacre of Jews by the chroniclers Roger of Howden and Richard of Devizes in the 1190s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
  24. A Hitler-like individual important for understanding New World colonization may well be the Cardinal de Richelieu.
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