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  • Why Pigs are Dangerous

    Egypt has recently called for culling the nation's pig population. This has led to mixed outrage and strange support. Poor Christian pig farmers in Egypt protested that pigs are their livelihood, claimed their pigs are healthy, and that its unfair. However, Coptic religious leaders have supported the cull. The largest opposition group in ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on May 2, 2009

  • SHOCKING: Mom Collects Sperm of Dead Son

    If you thought things couldn't be more disturbing, a case in California took place where a grieving mother chose to collect the sperm of her 21 year old son in order for him to have children. The son suffered brain injury from a fight which left him on life support. The mother chose to end life support and collected his organs for donation. But ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on April 9, 2009

  • Fetus NOT Part of the Female Body and the Sticky Wicket

    Absolutism in theory often rides roughshot over reality. A viable, living fetus is NOT a 'part' of the female's body. It is indeed a separate living being WITHIN the female's body. The distinction between a 'part' of a body and a 'separate being' inside a body is when the former is removed from the body at a certain time, it cannot survive. The ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on March 19, 2009

  • Is this the best ground to be taking a stand?

    Because it seems shaky, muddy, filthy ground to be taking a stand. Not to mention there is much higher ground which enables you to see all around you. I just returned home from overseas and can vouch for certain more basic societal structures over criminal courts. One: the fear of the angry family can dampen the deviant sexual desires of the ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on December 17, 2008

  • Blackwater or Debt Collections with UAV?

    Let's assume nobody here is in a war zone. Because in a war zone, the US military has a wide discretion to determine who's a target and whose not, and this technology does NOT show who is 'good' and who is 'bad'. And Pentagon released data about new technology tends NOT to reveal the downsides or flaws in its usage. Why? Because some Pentagon ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on September 18, 2008