Philosophy - June 2007

2007-06-24 22:48:09 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

This questions is related to the novel The Quiet American, by Graham Greene.

2007-06-24 22:34:12 · 1 answers · asked by alloush_dib 1

2007-06-24 22:15:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-24 21:59:20 · 10 answers · asked by realyannick 2

2007-06-24 21:30:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Rights are tempered by responsibilities. There is no way around this fact.

Someone once said, “My right to through a punch ends at your nose.” Put another way, I have the right to through a punch only if I exercise the responsibility not to hit you. I doubt that anyone would argue against this.

Yet it would seem that there are in fact people who would argue the point.
For example the Education Department of Western Australia has a major directive stating that all children must be included, no matter what. It is the child’s right top be included in the class, and on the surface it would seem a good thing. So what happens if one child physically attacks another? This situation happened recently at a school that a family member of mine teaches at. The interpretation by the principal of the directive was that the attacking child could not be removed from the class, So the child who was attacked was left to remain in the class (not alone, with the rest of the class) until the child asked to go home, due to distress. Is it not that child’s right to have a safe and un-distressing school experience. Many other examples exist, but this one highlights my point nicely.

This leads me to two questions.

1. Should the promotion of rights with little or no focus of responsibilities in the general population be considered a moral or criminal offence?
AND
2. What is it about our current societal structure that makes us more rapacious when it comes to wanting our rights fulfilled even at the expense off others?

Serious answers only please.

Thanks.

2007-06-24 21:27:39 · 6 answers · asked by Arthur N 4

2007-06-24 21:25:15 · 9 answers · asked by Questions&Answers 4

The leading cause of death in pregnant women is murder. Pregnant women should be cared for by family,friend and strangers. Where has the love and compassion gone? What happened to the days where we all looked out for all the childeren?

2007-06-24 21:16:57 · 9 answers · asked by Questions&Answers 4

The following are phrases we usually find or hear, some of them are:
1. Love conquers all- how true is love conquering almost the impossible. Some says that without money love flow out of the windows. Can love pay my bills? Perennial theme of romantic novels...and they live happily ever after.... ideal summation of a relationship but doesn't always happen, why there are so many divorces and separation, one of the best example of this is the pop icon-Britney Spears, she married and next day she divorce, less than 24 hours?
2. First love never dies- How true is your first romance, that this love never dies. Really?
3.Opposite attracts- How can two people live together if they seem cannot agree with one another, both of them are like night and day, black and white.
4. Absense makes the heart grow fonder- How true is this? That by being absense for so long you will be missed? Some will just say "it is better to hate than to wait..." some falls apart after being away for just a month.

2007-06-24 20:44:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do thoughts help or enhance anything

what thoughts can you have
what thouhghts cant you have
what makes thoughts
can you stop thoughts
do you make thoughts
are thoughts self made
what are thoughts meant for what do they acheive
are thoughts meant for acheiving
what do you think thoughts do?

2007-06-24 19:42:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-24 19:40:35 · 9 answers · asked by ImaGman 5

2007-06-24 19:31:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

that you thought you couldn't do
and also what cant you do that you thought you could

just answering 1 of the 2 is ok
but if you can answer both thats ok too

2007-06-24 19:21:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

were both presented to you
right there in front of you
for you to choose only one or the other
which would you pick

2007-06-24 19:10:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was recently asked this question by a professor and I just wonder what you all think. Whenever I think about it I get myself so contradicted, please help.

2007-06-24 18:57:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-24 18:54:26 · 11 answers · asked by jenn 1

Debate over free will goes on forever it seems. But with all the qualifications imposed by culture, up-bringinging, etc, don't we still have choice available, and making our choices acquire responsibility for the outcomes - for ourselves and others. Or do we not have choice -- or responsibility.

2007-06-24 18:13:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or that other people are just robots or obstacles that God forces you to deal with to test you? Yeah, I know it sounds pretty stupid and narcissistic for me to think that, but I'm like, then why am I trapped in this random body all of the time? What if I really AM the only real person? lol

2007-06-24 18:06:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

if infinity and infinite possibilities truly exist and are more that just perspectives, than wouldnt that mean that you could never lead a good or bad life, b/c if there are infinite possibilites ( these possibilites i mention are more or less the different lives you could have in different dimesions etc) then there are always infinitely better and worse lives than the one you have.

so everybody is doomed to a run of the mill life which will end and they will be forgotten and all existence is meaningless....in short

thoughts?

2007-06-24 17:48:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

but have now come to accept
that in all probability or reality its
just not ever going to materialise

2007-06-24 17:26:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-24 17:22:16 · 29 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7

Logical arguments are always more persuasive than emotional arguments.
True
False

2007-06-24 17:11:57 · 14 answers · asked by studentlearner 2

right? can you direct this train of thought into something tangible?

2007-06-24 17:09:29 · 12 answers · asked by Socrates 3

2007-06-24 17:02:54 · 9 answers · asked by Future 5

I mean from a religious point or scientific point.....If everything that dies usually have an after effect like stars creating other stars and so on ...do we contribute somehow spiritually or other

2007-06-24 16:56:29 · 26 answers · asked by daze03br 1

2007-06-24 16:43:12 · 19 answers · asked by deal 1

If you have to create movements of energy to power the mind, then can one consider the natural state of the mind to be weak?
Does the state or status of the mind determine power/weakness? Meaning is power a financial or societal status, or a mental focus a balance of thought and emotion in the mental state?

2007-06-24 16:40:52 · 10 answers · asked by Future 5

2007-06-24 16:05:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-24 16:04:08 · 33 answers · asked by Lavida rose 4

2007-06-24 15:58:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous