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Aborting Down's syndrome fetuses

vendredi 22 août 2014 à 14:00

Richard Dawkins says that women have a moral duty to abort a fetus that has Down's syndrome.

I completely concur. Having a baby with Down's syndrome does harm to someone (that baby). An abortion does no harm to anyone.

Repression of Australia's homeless

vendredi 22 août 2014 à 14:00

Repression of the homeless in Australia: in Melbourne, begging is a crime.

As the Australian government proposes to cut the support for the unemployed, especially those under 30, it will make more homeless people that will be forced into "crime".

Neighborhood in Liberia quarantined

vendredi 22 août 2014 à 14:00

A neighborhood in Liberia has been quarantined to block spread of Ebola.

I don't know whether this sort of measure is effective enough to justify the loss of liberty it involves.

Israeli weapons factory in UK shut down

vendredi 22 août 2014 à 14:00

Protesters explain why they shut down an Israeli weapons factory in the UK.

The crime of "aggravated trespass" is a synonym for "annoying protest". To accuse anyone of that crime is a sign of an antidemocratic government.

Airport X-ray scanners

vendredi 22 août 2014 à 14:00

Tests prove that many kinds of weapons and explosives can be smuggled through the X-ray scanners that were formerly used, untested, for "security" in airports.

Even worse, if one of these machines were to break, it could give a person a dangerous radiation burn. Once I learned that, I opted out every time. I said, "Please feel me up."