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Marissa Holcomb

lundi 27 avril 2015 à 14:00

Marissa Holcomb was working in Popeye's when an armed robber forced her to hand over $400 from the cash registers. The boss told her to repay the money or get fired.

It is wrong to punish Ms Holcomb this way, but she's doing something else that she should not have done. She should not be having another child while her ability to support her existing children is precarious.

The FBI

lundi 27 avril 2015 à 14:00

The FBI has replaced integrity with "the end justifies the means".

Policies

lundi 27 avril 2015 à 14:00

It is hard for poor people to avoid getting angry at the rich.

It would be wrong to blame the rich for being rich. We should not give in to envy. The correct and valid reason to blame the rich is that most of them support dooH niboR policies that hurt the poor.

US: Victims Of Drone Attacks

lundi 27 avril 2015 à 14:00

When will the US apologize to the non-western unintended victims of drone attacks?

Inside Obama's Drone Panopticon: a Secret Machine with No Accountability. Choosing targets based on probabilities implies frequent errors, and frequent killing of civilians.

The root cause of killing so many innocent people is that these attacks are directed at people's homes in areas that are not battlefields. We must recognize the difference between war on a battlefield and assassination of people off the battlefield. The latter is more like terrorism than like war.

Rights of Workers

lundi 27 avril 2015 à 14:00

NYU tried to insist on respect for rights of workers constructing its Abu Dhabi branch, but local contractors took advantages of exceptions to mistreat 10,000 workers.