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Sure. I live in a suburb next to a big city -- which is sometimes included in the "Greater Area of the City", which means that sometimes the city name includes it surroundings, including my suburb. So I simplify it.

Many stories really seem too incredible or too horrible to be true. It's strange, makes you wonder what "doesn't commute" in these people's brain and hormones.

People feel unconcerned when they see something happening if they are in a crowd especially -- they figure someone else will act. If someone else starts to help, they might be broken out of their "unhelping" frozen state -- or if you are in trouble with your friend, it helps to call out people...

I did. Gave my address to some online friends to exchange some snail mail. We exchanged cards and letters. Some times they sent me gifts, one time I sent one of them a book to practice their French. I met one of them two times, and called the others sometimes. It's called judgment, and we may...

Geez, it's not like being naked is going to traumatize the kids, unless the parents plant the thought that the act of being naked is dangerous. Seriously. I get that flashers and exhibitionists are inflicting trauma -- but as far as I'm concerned, it's because they are doing it with intent, in...

It really does make sense. As far as I know, they did make improvements, but with the reputation they have, no young person would ever be convinced that IE is anything but a joke -- it's a meme, really. So. Rebranding is the only thing they can do -- maybe people would not want to change their...

It's not "cry for bad guys" to not appreciate cops abusing their powers (making an arrest and using necessary force and self-defence if needed is what they are entitled to do) to change their role from protecting/serving/bringing people to justice into "violently making their own justice". We...

That's naive. You probably don't frequent too many people who get racially profiled, or people from trouble communities. Or people who protest in the streets for social justice and who get arrested for no good reason.

But do you believe in absolute good and absolute evil? There always seems to be more than that; especially as we grew in science and psychology and now can see how trauma and hormones can drive us without that we can stop it, even though our morality tell us not to. Nuances everywhere.

I don't believe in God, so the idea of being a sinner in front of a holy lord is not one I'd believe in. I do believe people do bad things -- and it can be measured by how much pain and unhappiness you spread (vs spreading joy, for one). I would rarely call it "sin", though. The only time the...

I am for it. I think in Germany, it is also legal -- you need to get a permit of some sort, and there is a psychological evaluation to be done before a woman is allowed to choose this job for herself. I think legalizing this way is ideal -- you take the power away from criminal bands and pimps...

That's not racism... Albinos are not a race. It might be insanity and other fucked things (and it probably is), though!

I don't get it, was it a suicide pack (thus "We are committed"?)? If so, why is the friend also not dead? Clearly she is not a real friend, but it's hard to tell sometimes when you are at the height of all the hormonal changes and dramatic feelings. Sad story.

This really is inappropriate behaviour -- indecent exposure is a crime, urinating in public also gets you community service and fined, though I'm not sure if there is a specific law about urinating on people. However gross and disrespectful this is, I am sad to say I'm not even surprised. I...

They are clearly trying to put a blame where there is no proof of it being a cause... Probably to prevent that it gets legalized in NY. Maybe they just like the useless war on drugs better, who knows, but why would anyone make an article about such a useless claim?

Crime did went down in the states where marijuana was legalized. That and, yup, price went up -- but the state made so much money they did not know what to do with it! I don't see how weed and guns being legal would be a recipe for disaster. It's not like weed makes anyone violent -- quite the...

Stories on this forum always make me shake my head and sigh and " What's wrong with the wooorld" feeling, seriously. Obviously, he should not have done that. Obviously, he was not thinking straight. But damn it the moment he hit the cop should have shocked him back into thinking!

I'm glad that this is getting attention. The message needs to be clear and loud: no sexual harrassement in the work place. No, it's not "compliments" and no it's not "innocent flirting/teasing". There is a time and a place for friendly teasing, and this time and place is never at work with the...

I usually am a bit lax about old people with young lovers because I think -- oh well, even if it's not the most sincere thing and if it is mostly for the money, if both parties get something nice out of it and the old person can die happily instead of lonely, then all the better! <br><br>But...

For even more perspective, in Canada, environmentalists and scientists have been called terrorists, too...