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Question 1:
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion?
Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:
Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.
Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.
Answers:
Candidate A is Franklin D.Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
Oh and about the abortion question; if you have answered yes then you've just killed Beethoven.
Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone, doesn't it?
Remember amateurs built the ark....Professionals built the Titanic
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Once again folks, my views are probably controversial. If you disagree, say so. I am not mad of glass, I can take it. hehe
1. While I do come down on the side of choice, primarily because women seem split on the issue. This option gives the individual the opportunity to work out the ethical questions for themselves. If someone does not believe in it, they should not ever have one.
However, I would NEVER advise anyone or urge them to get an abortion. I would not be inclined to do much more than lay out the options, and even then I would most likely remain mute. This is a personal decision. Any intervention that is not solicited by the people involved would be wrong.
2. This is interesting. It proves my theory that most people are uninformed about the people they vote for on election day. I think everyone would agree that these brief descriptions (much like the T.V. ads we see) do not adequately represent the people listed. We should not just listen to an ad to decide who we vote for.
A friend of mine had told me about an issue wich decided his vote in the last presidential election. It made me cringe. If he had put a bit more effort into finding out what the two men stood for on issues that were important to him, I am confident he would have chosen differently. One issue or byline makes a man (or woman). We owe it to our countries (assuming you live in one without a dictator or King) to study the choices we have before casting our vote. This is patriotism, this is service to our country.
Please vote. Please cast an informed vote. This is the only way you will have a chance to be represented by people with your values and ideals.
What do you think?
***Kevin steps down off the soapbox***
Thanks all,
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Q1: I would never recommend a woman to have an abortion.
I'm pro-choice, but it is not for me to say someone else should have her wife killed. Especially since I can't bear any myself. ...Well, not to my knowledge anyway. 
I do believe though that in just about every pregnancy except rape or incest, mother and father should have to agree both for the abortion to be legal. Fathers should have rights too.
Q2: His name's spelled "Adolf". He was German, not Anglo-American, alright?
Just because someone doesn't drink or won't eat meat doesn't make that someone into a suitable leader, as we see in this case knowing who Candidate C is. You don't give us any information at all on their political ideals, so how could anyone say which one we'd vote for just based on these tidbits of background information? Only a fool would base any decision on so little.
And as for the final point: the ark was never built, and there was nothing truly wrong with the Titanic; it was by far the safest ship of its era. Like almost always in car, ship or airplane accidents, it wasn't the vehicle that failed, but the people operating it.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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mt
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You’re both quite right. Not everybody can recommend such thing as an abortion. But I have to admit that although I wouldn’t really do it, my first impression did kill Beethoven.
Well, you could say the same thing again in that light: An amateur sailed the Ark and professionals (note the plural s) operated the Titanic.
The point is that anyone would agree (having never heard the two ships’ stories) that chances of the Titanic sinking and the Ark surviving are pretty slim.
As for voting, well… you have stated some good points, but what guarantee you have that the chosen one will be true to his word? It’s just that; you never know another human unless you experience him/her.
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But you were right; who can bear a wife anyway!
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Adolf sounded a poisonous little shit. And Ludwig's music has never appealed to me in any way.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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