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lm______
11y ago
Polluting the environment kills people too.
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11y ago
> It's a difference between knowingly killing and accidentally killing. Legally, there is a huge difference. I'd argue morally there is too, but you can decide for yourself. I wonder if the victim's families give much of
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11y ago
This scenario is slightly different though. It doesn't explicitly preclude the possibility that if funds are diverted to program B, that the one person being saved by program A might also be saved under program B, plus an additional fo
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11y ago
Yes, I'm sure. Why are you so hellbent on doubting me?
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11y ago
> I didn't claim that teachers take their stress out on students. I simply claimed that if they did, they are horrible and unprofessional. Maybe there is misunderstanding around the phrase "take out on" (it doesn't
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11y ago
DIBELS, MAPS, Common Core, etc. Some of these happen multiple times a year. I honestly can't remember all of the names, but I can assure you there were more. I was a tutor -- I never administered any of these tests -- and it was thre
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11y ago
I worked for a year as a tutor in an elementary school. Even the first graders are doing six or seven standardized tests every year, plus random additional tests (including those given by me and my fellow reading tutors, testing every stude
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11y ago
And it happens at all levels of dealing too, not just the CIA flying in bricks... I know people who have been robbed by the cops for drugs. One friend got off with only a warning for having 10 ounces of high-grade weed, which were then &quo
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Show me any evidence that taking a drug causes a person to beat their spouse or neglect their child. And, for anyone who would drive intoxicated or cripple their health via drug abuse, that is already easy to do -- drugs aren't hard to
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11y ago
No one said that robbers should be punished less harshly if they have an addiction.