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Hey, guys: I know it's been a while since I wrote anything. I don't know, it's just kind of hard to get motivation for it, somehow - when I look ...

What, after the First World War? When the victorious countries piled the blame on Germany, leading to the complete destruction of their economy and social system? Forgiveness and a willingness ...

That was something like I was trying to say, only with a good deal more eloquence.

Well, I'd disagree with everything you said about philosophy books, but Sophie's World is indeed excellent.

Justice is meant to protect the weak from the strong, or those that would otherwise wrongfully force themselves upon the innocent. Mercy has nothing to do with it. No, that's ...

Yes.

Man, are they *still* studying the same poems at GCSE? You think they'd update it once and a while - I did those ones, and that was three years ago! ...

There is absolutely no difference in the principle of stepping in to stop a genocide and stepping in to stop the execution of a dictator. The only reason we allow ...

My apologies, I'd forgotten how effective the cycle of killing and revenge has been in promoting world peace and harmony.

So we let people die because that's what the law in their country says? Goodbye objection to torture states, ethnic cleansing, little things like the Holocaust...

"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." I wonder when we will understand that forgiveness is not only for when it is ...

It's not necassarily an issue bound in 'intolerance'. Muslims, as group, tend to avoid assimilation into other countries and cultures--on principle. Islam is a curious religion in that it holds ...

Ah yes, how wonderful, yet another triumph for democracy and the advanced ethics of the "civilized" world! Obviously the correct way to deal with the horrific and despicable fact of ...

Yeah, I know, not the best attitude for starting off. But, y'know, whatever :P REVOLUTIONS Dramatis Personae: I met Galleazzo Montefeltro in the rainy British summer of 2007, and we ...

I picked up Power Rangers: The Movie on VHS in a charity shop yesterday. Now I know... now I know.