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I NEVER NOTICED YOUR NAME RHYMES WITH BILE

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If you want me to be really succinct- Castro was a huge mixed bag, and we should remember him as such. On one hand, horrible repressive communist dictator, cracked down on dissenting voices, and until recently there was no such thing as a private industry in Cuba. On the other, 99% literacy...

I'm pretty sure if you ask me this question a few years from now I'd have a different answer lol. Right now two names come to mind- Charles Darwin and James Shapiro, and for the same reason. Charles Darwin needs no introduction, and James Shapiro is a Chicago University Microbiologist who's been...

and your blue hair

not unlike your face

Shutup loser here have some tea

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/150 Your favorite philosopher may have been beta of all betas

As a microbiologist my first instinct is to say vaccines, but Pie's answer is very appropriate as well.

Well if you're not a robot then this would be a piece of cake for you wouldn't it [IMG] Go on I'm waiting

But there are other ways of helping the world without explicitly "governing" them, or assuming any sort of authoritative position. For example, if you can fly, have super strength and speed, then you can very easily save all the people that accidentally fall off their buildings. Doing so doesn't...

So you disagree with uncle Ben when he said "with great power come great responsibility"?

Do you mean a sympathetic morally ambiguous one? Or the "well, well, well" variety from the old Bond flicks?

I respect your position, Pie, but I'm still struggling to see how this issue wouldn't arise in the case of verbal discipline or taking away of privileges as well. Nobody in the thread seems to have a problem with disciplinary measures as such- as I pointed out in my last post, some form of a...

Like if you had world-saving capabilities, wouldn't you be morally obligated to contribute much more to making the world a better place? I know the uncle Ben quote has been cliched ad nauseum, but it's true in a very literal, straightforward way. That would mean you have to set apart time from...