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True... But even the programs that are defended as 'money generating schemes' for the university (including the rest of athletics), mostly are not at all...

Inherently it is almost impossible to...

Seem to remember something similar, might actually have been Greg Easterbrook - considering his hostility towards the way college sports are run today... It was astonishingly low...

IIRC it was...

If he is - and he is still working his old job - he will keep quiet; since IIRC allegedly it was a condition for him not losing his job over the snitching by a poster on here and his over the top...

Considering the regularity with which kids are shot or shoot others - I can understand where the doc is coming from...

Well done in setting up a strawman by willful misreading...

And your version of economics has been shown - REPEATEDLY - to work less well than the 'free lunch' economics that I advocate (according...

It is either that, or allow freeloaders to abuse the system. Because there are quite a few freeloaders, who count on (a) the fact that doctors/hospitals are legally and ethically obliged to treat...

Yup... it can be used as other forms of political oppression. And yes, both sides use it. And on occasion it is not - mostly - part of a system of political oppression of a minority group even, but...

And I never said that the Israeli government wants to eliminate the Palestinians through either outright extermination or forcing them to become extinct by 'natural' means. What they have started...

True... but the reverse has also been happening as well: 'O, you have not been systematically extirminated? Well, sucks to be you, but you shouldn't whine. You are still alive!' Even if the purpose...

True... but the difference is - somewhat - in intent of those actions.

And - of course - I agree with you that the latter examples are far different from for instance the Holocaust or Rwanda... ...

I am somewhat on the side of e-nut on this one... the patents have long ceased to be about recouping profit, but more about the legal excuse for what is basically extortion. I do completely disagree...

True... but the same game has also (and especially) been played concerning crops. Monsanto being one of the primary players in the field, but there are numerous others...

AFAIK it does not - systematically raping women in order to make sure that no pure kids of the other ethnicity/culture remain has been included as well (or at least they tried during the Yugoslavia...

Yup.... now if they could extend that ruling to all forms of life...

Ahum,

even in the official narrow definition as adopted after WW II genocide does not mean the complete exterminiation of a people, or even the exterminiation of a segment of it. It also includes...

Denying somebody their heritage in order to establish your superiority and your claims (usually on land) has been been classified as genocide (or is being pushed for being included into the...

I think few - and I am definitely not - saying that Jews are not alllowed to live in the Palestinian regions. What I do say is that it is unjustified to have them move in there and living there made...

Let me state that, until Christianity came around, the Jews - or rather the peoples living in Israel, including the Jews - were treated no worse (or better, generally) than anybody else by the big...

Yup... completely agree with you... both sides are held hostage by the extremists within their population, whose only (political and economic self-)interest lies in the continuation of this conflict.

Apart from the fact that similar logic - and belief/faith in a certain destiny - has been used to justify all forms of genocide, including that perpetrated against the Jews.

And the segment in power has realized that it would be a smart thing to ethnically cleanse it - or Judaise - in order to make sure that the Jewish section of the population would be the majority, and...

The majority of people do not go into baseball games with the express purpose of being a-holes to their fellows in the stands. Yet when 'God bless America' is played, quite a few people turn into...

Yes there would be...

Protection of religious freedom does NOT automatically mean you can express your religious beliefs wherever and whenever you like. Although some individuals - and in the case...

Of course he also made it blatantly obvious he missed the point of the decision... (and should have been disqualified as valedictorian because of it?)

History actually agrees with Smith as well in this part - both past AND present history!