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Iconic.

Actually, I must say I would join the Scientologists just for joke: it would be the most amazingly stupid thing I can actually imagine. It's physically painful that people don't ...

Back to life! Back to reality! *ahem* I like this one much better: nice to have it back.

The point is that the media will continue saying what we want to hear as long as it makes them money: in the end, the only way to stop media ...

But let's say that the death penalty is put in place in England. How do we decide who should be killed and who shouldn't be? How can we tell which ...

With the Tom Cruise thing, I'm actually not too much against that - it's his belief (albeit a really, really stupid one) and so he's got a right to say ...

I really wish everything was as black and white as you'd like it to be, bob. I really do. It would make life remarkably easy. Unfortunately, things just aren't that ...

There are all sorts of people in society - we'll take two opposing characitures, your average Joe Bloggs-small-businessman-taxpayer and Dr. Hobo who's living on benefits. We all like Joe because ...

Icky poo. The blue is nice, mind: the rest is smelly and depressing.

It's not about contributing as such, it's about participating - whether we judge people by how much we think they contribute or not, that's our own personal choice: it doesn't ...

Of course! Why waste money when you can save it? What's your basis for life being sacred? So far I haven't heard any rational reason why we should particularly value ...

The chances of zoonosis (disease jumping the species barrier) occuring in H5N1 is somewhere in the safe region of 1 in many million. Not quite sure where you got your ...

Why? What's the point in living? Life is a society, one way or another, and if you're not part of society why should you be part of life? @Gal - ...

... I think perhaps people haven't got the full impact of this yet. Scientists aren't especially worried about birds transmitting this to humans - if that were the only way ...

Let's take a look at some logic - you have a justice service that officially has two aims: firstly, to keep the public safe, and secondly, to rehabilitate criminals so ...