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...world to compete in a peaceful arena. The IOC must ask whether this ideal is compatible with a government that consistently uses brute force to quash political and religious expression. Letting Beijing have the Games would, at best, send the wrong signal. At worst, it would embolden Beijing to commit even more flagrant infractions by showing that the international community will turn a blind eye to its abuses...
Some Oklahomans say they should not be taxed for the sins of their parents and that current taxpayers did not commit the crimes that destroyed Greenwood. But successors often pay for their predecessors’ actions. Many of the current stockholders of the Mobil Oil Company, which recently was held liable for polluting the water of Cyril, Oklahoma, were not alive in 1947 when the first pollution began. But they have to pay the cleanup costs nevertheless. Just because taxpayers did not themselves participate in the riot does not mean the city is freed from legal or moral responsibility...
...many studies showing a clear link between repeated exposure to pornography and increased likelihood to commit rape will it take before we start to treat this brutal artistic “genre” as the hate speech it really is? Indeed, studies have found that between 75 and 90 percent of child molesters regularly use hard-core pornography...
Juvenile violence is rampant in today's society, where school shootings seem to occur every other week. The answer is not stricter sentences to deter offenders, but programs to help troubled youths before they commit crimes. Dangerous juveniles certainly need to be locked up, but these decisions need to be made on a case-by-case basis. These are decisions that should not depend on blanket sentencing laws-individual responses are needed for unique circumstances...
...keeps the other for himself," says Eyestrain, with a sheepish smile on his face. The address isn't attached to the accomplice and each credit card is only used once. Almost all of his hardware has been illicitly gained, and now Eyestrain is using some of it to commit even more cybercrime, burning pirated CDs that he sells for $1.20 each. Hardly the job of his dreams, but it's easy and gives him plenty of time for hacking...