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Thursday, May 22, 2008

When you posit an issue, what's better? The people who have stakes in it

spelling things out? Or those who do not have stakes spelling them out so it makes a point that they are supportive in principle even if they have no direct stakes in what they are saying? Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 5, 2008

What do you think about people who look at only one form of 'ism'

and don't regard the other. As for instance sexism as against racism or racism against sexism. Isn't there an intersection between the two? Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

A homogeneous response to a problem solves it?

I was talking to a friend about the need for one voice to be effective and she didn't see the reason why it needed to be one voice as in she said we may think basically along similar lines but there may be different angles from which we are looking at things. But I tried telling her the fascists... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Is discipline possible for all in all circumstances?

I believe in punctuality, but I have a friend, who is dependent at home on the vagaries of water availability to fill buckets of water and store them and come. Sometimes the water comes much later than usual and then she's late to work or for whatever appointment. I can say she is often unpunctual.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

when someone says who's responsible for a certain violent outbreak,

can you blame it on one person? No outbreak of violence can happen at the behest of one person alone. Even if one person were to give the orders, he is able to carry the day because he enjoys the support of others in this exercise. Some may be more responsible (but that is a matter of degrees). What... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 8, 2008

How would you rate one who is so intense about animal care but cares two

hoots about human beings? Would you just put it down as a preference? or as snobbishness? Or as lots of sensitivity to beings that cannot express themselves? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

When people drag their feet on getting things going and it always needs one

indispensable sort of person to push everyone around, is the problem with that "indispensable" person who makes himself or herself indispensable or the others who need to be pushed around? Or what's the grey in this? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

What do u think about people who are always dressing themselves up?

Show-pieces? attention to themselves means attention to all? exercising their right to their own space? Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 3, 2007

What do you think about parents wanting the children to stay separately

once they've attained majority? Is it a good thing for each to have their own space? or is it about being individualistic? Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

What do u have to say about America's policy on trafficking?

The US of A talks a lot abt trafficking and about dealing with it. They even come out with a report called the G-TIP report, but I somehow can't help feeling that all their hype about trafficking is essentially to deal with the "illegal immigrant" problem - a problem which they as an economic super... Sign in to see full entry.

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