Can you give a definition of the word fair?

this is the one I use, more or less: Fair - free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules;...

No, that's not it.

"It" is "about" thinking about underlying the principles upon which our actions stand. It is about thinking bout those principles at play in our interactions.

Just because we...

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Good day boys & girls...So is it fair?? Is it fair for CEO's/executives to receive millions yearly while the mass of the employees of the companies at times doesn't get...

I do so love it when someone understands and addresses what I've said rather. You think before you react, thanks.

As for murder, let's take just this country as an example and see if that's good...

I'm sorry to say this to you csgal, but you are simply wrong. My writing is not about impressions. I'm not an ambivalent person who "sort of states, kind of what he feels." I am as precise as I can...

One of two things is happening here.. you have either made an honest mistake, or you have taken exception to me and thus are not interested in being accurate.

Attend: The statement "There needs...

I have no beef with Paul Allen to be sure. This is only a discussion, for me, about balance, fairness. You use the phrase "..people should be rewarded for their hard work .." and at no point have I...

The button says it is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. ... I don't want to bug them by ignoring their wishes.

And you don't think there's something wrong with that equation? Those are the people you want to reward, people who abandon their families for corporate advancement? These are the people you want...

"Answer this: If a CEO made the same amount as a bagger at a grocery store, what incentive would there be to take the job as a CEO? If you have 2 equally paying jobs, people will take the job that...

it is not my view that high ceo salaries helps anyone except the ceo. it seems to me that the higher the salary, the more likely it is that there is corruption occuring, that damage is being done to...

You would be entirely right if supply and demand of human resources were the only reason that the ratio of wealth distribution is in place.

But human resources (managerial ability) are not the...

opps, wrong button, please disregard this post (can someone delete this ?)

Apparently you haven't heard the meaning of the word "corporation". ???

Your justification is weak. How many more hours per week than mine justify a wage 1000 times mine? As for greater risk,...

What is it that most intrigues you, the most important thing you pursue?

Just park it all on Google. It'll be safe there ... ;)

This "pat search" you speak of is all good and well. It's not an invasion of your privacy. Some people carry some deeply personal stuff on their computers, their very lives are invested on them. It's...

This is my favorite part from the page you linked above:

[ The Customs and Border Protection defends the searches, saying the agency does not need to show probable cause to look inside suitcases...

I don't think it's all that much of a mystery.

We don't really have a two party system in that "two" means much. What we have effectively is a one party system where the liberals and...

No, damnit, you're right.

If you could look back 20 years on the internet, you'd see that if "they" decide to make a clean sweep I won't be on the "keeper" list. ;-)

Make no mistake, I'm love...

Of course I'll argue.

In any case I won't suggest that (just) anyone who has been accused of being a terrorist by our government "deserves" to be tortured. I have no assumption that just because...

No, because you seem to believe that if the government has made the choice then it is right.

Josh, this is sincerely not meant as an insult, but are you kinda young? Judging by your statement above you don't seem to have a clear view of what has been going on around you.

Well, All,

I've had my rebuttal, and it's over for me at this point, thanks for the input.

It was Narue that suggested that I simply state my position and let it go.

A problem with forums...

For the record jw, I am not a socialist, I do not "believe in" socialism. What I do believe in, in that respect, is not on the table for discussion. Nowhere in this forum have I laid those beliefs...

There's no assumptions that need be made. One can back up a page, follow the thread, and see what he's said about me, how I responded asking him to support his statement or retract it, and how he...

jwenting is committing slander, he has lied about who I am and what I am putting forth.

This is a community, he is welcome to his opinion, but I've asked for a retraction or evidence that I've...

This is sick. I've asked you to support your accusations and you just heap more on.

YOU HAVE GONE OFF THE DEEP END. YOU HAVE LIED ABOUT MY POSITION. THIS IS SLANDER.

I would ask you to provide proof that I have at any point stated, or even implied that
" socialism is right and...

I am here now. Not then. I know things were different then, which is sort of, or at least, part of my point.

So let me be clear on this, since perhaps I am not.

Do you, in the now, maintain...

Trust you? Liberals want ... what? My God, Enderx, where have you been, what have you been watching for the last several years? Surely not the goings on in the good-ol' USofA .. The conservatives...

Perhaps you'd care to make your reason for thinking that apparent?

And then there were blogs.

How many people are blogging? Half a billion? Less? More?

All these people clamoring to be heard have a way for them to put their words "out there" where a billion...

We tend to interpret the Constitution in todays' light, and we assume that the framers were geniuses. But they were simply people much like you and me, who could not foresee everthing that would...

I remember when 1984 rolled around, so many people were saying .. "Orwell had it wrong, it didn't happen." These people are saying the same thing today.

As soon as they can get the technology in place it will be your thoughts.

I cannot believe for a moment that any person who has a morality that includes respect for the right to an individual to live as he or she sees fit as long as that individual is not harming others,...

What it comes down to is that "they" will do whatever the hell they want unless "we" stop them.

Well what if it isn't about speed at all, but rather about placement?

That brings to mind a song ...

A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There's a woman on my lap and she's ..
Drinking champagne ...

Ah but I...