The thing is that eventually the planet will be full, or we will choose to limit the population before it becomes completely full. With no new people/customers continuing to build the bottom of the financial pyramid there won't be a whole lot of today's easy money. When that happens EVERYONE will have to get used to a ...more

Also, what happens if the mechanical legs are superior and he wins? Then would prospective athletes have their legs amputated in order to be competitive?

I think he needs to make up his mind...  Why does he also get to run in the Paralympics? To be fair, now non-handicapped people should be able to compete in the Paralympics as well.

Exactly. If a woman wants to have a race to see who does a certain chore first, she will win EVERY time. No matter how much it bothers her that she's doing more than her fair share she can't just leave it alone. I think women would be a lot happier if they did compromise on the level of cleanliness and just let it go a...more

If all the women in the Saudi Arabia are allowed to drive and choose not to, that's religious freedom.  If they are forbidden to drive, that's oppression. It's not about religion, it's about the men in backwards countries keeping women in the position of subservient second class citizens. We're all individuals wi...more

Ok, very enlightening comment, now crawl back under your rock and stay there.

W is the one that put them in the position to be killed. The least he could do was to make sure they got good funerals!

The last thing I would want when I die is for others (family, friends, society... whoever)  to have to shoulder the burden of paying for an expensive box that will get buried in a hole.

EVERYBODY should be buried in a cardboard box, if not cremated. It's ridiculous that some people feel the need to be embalmed, buried in expensive, ornate, corrosion resistant coffins and then have the coffin covered with a concrete vault. So... they can exist as corpses... FOREVER. YEAH!!! What a waste. The body is...more