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• 2 days ago

  When a public company's actions affect many innocent people due to their personal greed, what can be done to remedy their actions?

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• 1 week ago

  Abraham Lincoln said, "All human actions are caused by motives, and at the bottom of these motives are self". Do you agree or disagree that all human actions driven by selfishness?

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• 3 weeks ago

  If I obtain an illegal copy of software that I have a legal license for, but have lost my disk, have I really done anything wrong?

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• 2 days ago

  What do you consider to be an example of political correctness gone mad?

  @YARNLADY my wife’s grandfather was actually Choctaw, not Chickasaw….my mother-in-law corrected me when I asked her about it. He was from Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.
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• 1 week ago

  If you know that you've built up static electricity on your body that will discharge on the first thing you touch, do you try to discharge it on your nearest loved one so as not to waste the shock?

  no, I turn out the lights and try and touch something metal and see if the shock is visible.
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• 1 week ago

  What do you consider to be an example of political correctness gone mad?

  @RedPowerLady “But my question to you is how is dressing up like Indians respectful?? You simply cannot honor a people if they are saying ‘when you do this it disrespects our culture’ ” …The answer to this is, I need to know who “they” are ? I’ve done extensive auditing of Native American Tribes’ financial affairs….from the Pala and Pechanga tribes in California, to the Paiutes in Las Vegas, NV, the Coushattas in Louisiana and the Oneidas in Green Bay, WI. Guess what? Even the tribes themselves can’t agree who “they” are….some tribes have become so greedy that you could be 100% of the tribal blood and they’ll tell you your not because of a recent bylaw they created. Regardless, I can tell you that opinions on this issue of “disrepect” vary. Some feel any outsiders portrayal of their culture(s) is disrespectful. Others teach “outsiders” their rituals and sell to outsiders their ritualistic clothing and other items…knowing full well it will be “worn” by the outsider…and many of them do this not driven by greed, but by education…teaching the outsider about their culture. The fact of the matter is that any and all cultures and peoples will have malcontents and those that will misread actions by others as negative to him/her. In my opinion, this issue can’t be simplified. You have to take each issue as it arises and judge it according to the actions and mindset of those involved. Furthermore, being disrespectful is relative….one may even go out of their way to attempt to be RESPECTFUL and his/her actions may be received as DISRESPECTFUL….so break out the philosophy books and debate that one until your blue in the face, but my opinion is that disrespect is when one blatantly, intently, purposely OR is grossly ignorant in their actions. Innocently ignorant and those with pure intent should never be considered “disrespectful”....even if they dress up as an “indian” and it offends 100% of all Native Americans…if their intent was the opposite, they’re not being disrespectful. By the way….my wife’s grandfather is ½ chicksaw and my cousin (foster cousin, I guess) is a reknown Navajo dancer and artist (Kelvin Yazzi).....my wife’s Grandfather, because of the connotations and the way he was treated as a child in Oklahoma (where he was raised) was always embarrassed and denied his ancestry….so my wife and her family have always understood the need to be respectful of others’ cultures (especially Native Americans). On the other hand, my cousin has always been opposite, and even though his family sent him to be raised by “white” family in a “christian” home, he always held on to his culture and never allowed it to be disrected…so I feel I’ve had a lot of experience with this issue.
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• 3 weeks ago

  What do you consider to be an example of political correctness gone mad?

  If I were Native American (funny how you all keep saying “Indian”...that’s certainly not PC), I would not like Cleveland Indians’ mascot, nor the Washington Redskins name….but I’d have not problem with the FSU Seminoles or the Utah Utes. Political correctness goes too far when it lumps in honoring a people or culture with denigrating them. I’m Danish and Irish…if the Minnesota Vikings had a mascot that denigrated Viking culture or Scandinavian people….I’d be pissed (see Cleveland Indians mascot….and even the name Redskins)....but they don’t do that. Notre Dame doesn’t look to devalue the Irish people of the world….even if they do have a stereotype of a mascot. There’s no problem dressing up as “Indians” as long as its respectful….if you’re doing it for a halloween costume that may not be considered respectful by most. I wouldn’t let me children do it, even though they are 1/16th Chicksaw….just not respectful to me. That said, I don’t think most people that are being disrespectful are doing it intentionally, just ignorantly.
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• 3 weeks ago

  What do you consider to be an example of political correctness gone mad?

  “What do you consider to be an example of political correctness gone mad?” When people refer to somebody with dark skin from another country, “African American”...lol!
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