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Stem Cell Research, just like Space Exploration, impacts humanity not just the economy. All of the world's nations should be involved in these issues.

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I agree that getting to a healthy weight is beneficial. But what constitutes a healthy weight? There seem to be lots of reasons to critique BMI the standard with which America is in a Obesity Crisis.

http://jezebel.com/gossip/the-skinny/somethings-wrong-with-the-body-mass-index-306096.php

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So if I understand: You like them thin but not too thin? Is there a problem with the way women are being portrayed in the media?

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I'm impressed how unimportant this seems to people. :(

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Tastes change with time, but come on. I like Victoria Beckham but she is by no means a healthy prototype. What I find disturbing, is that what is now acceptable is to have a little girls body, no curves, just boobs. Women are supposed to be curvy, ie: Monica Bellucci http://tepasmas.com/img/monica-bellucci.jpg

not look like boys in bikinis, ie: Kiera Knightley http://images.celebset.net/pics/K/Keira%20Knightley200718221439080.jpg

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He created the system. Have you had a chance to read the manuals? They were written by him.

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I was reading a discussion about this on another site, it was very lengthy and I wanted to participate but it was futile.

Some people think it is mutilation, some people think it is sanitary, some think it is preventive, some other think that it makes no difference.

Well, coming from a large family of men, I have 5 brothers, I've had some first hand experiences with the subject.

My older brother was born at a time and place where circumcision was not practiced or encouraged. So hes uncircumcised. The rest of us were circumcised. Non of us has had any trouble with that, regarding complications from the procedure. We all have children of our own, and not surprisingly, those of us who have been circumcised have asked our male children to also be circumcised. There have been no problems with our circumcised offspring. Mi older brother has two boys who are "natural", and they haven't had any problems. However, my sister married an uncircumcised man, and OBVIOUSLY her son was uncircumcised as well. He developed a nasty infection in his penis that made it swell like a balloon. The doctor recommended circumcision after he healed.

A good friend of my brothers' and a family friend, had to be circumcised at age 21 for the same reason. The thing about hygiene that most people forget is that it is not infallible. Even though a man can strive to keep his genitals clean, hygiene by itself cannot protect him, if the immune system is depressed for whatever reason, a viral infection, a cold, the body's defenses are down, and other infection can occur.

Having recently become a father myself, I researched a bit about it. To tell you the truth, I have always been in favor of circumcision. To me it is completely the opposite of a barbaric practice. It is a ritual that somehow introduces a child to a society where we have, as humans, created the means to be proactive against the adversities of nature. It is, as most Jewish rituals, an implementation of what we have learned is good for us, just like don't eat pork since it is disease prone, don't do that or the other, basically everything that is kosher. All this seemingly religious rituals have a deep undertone of adaption to our environment through knowledge and instilled in our species memory, that is culture, as to better the odds of our survival. Basically is our ability to evolve without waiting for the process of evolution to make it first a vestigial and then disappearing it from the race.

So it has meaning, and that in itself is quite important, but nevertheless I had to know it wasn't something that would amount to a detriment in my baby's well being.

The medical community seems torn in half. Some are pro and some just plainly hate it. There are seemingly valid statements on both sides of the issue. Some make it an issue of choice, and that can be countered with each parents obligation to do what's best for a new born when he or she is at its most vulnerable and with no consciousness. Others revile it because they regard it as a mutilation, this I believe depends on the observer. If you cut your appendix would it be mutilation? Well, if it weren't such a complicated procedure I would definitely do it, who wants to be driving one day and have it explode suddenly? The appendix may be useless, and the foreskin may have some benefits. Are the benefits of a foreskin worth the risk of an infection? Is the possibility of an infection worth the risk of circumcision?

Well, airbags have been deemed a safety feature and a hazard just as seat belts in their time, and yet, they are so popular. Is riding a car worth the risk it entails? There is FAR MORE OF A CHANCE that you will die in a car crash than to experience a complication from circumcision, and yet no one gives it a second thought before hopping in their cars every morning. The simplest of benefits is worth the possibility of death in that case, and a remotely vague chance of a complication is a mutilation and a choice issue. Have you asked your babies if they wanted to be strapped on a vehicle moving at 65 miles an hour before you put them on their child seats?

In my child's case, his foreskin was very narrow and therefore tight. The doctor informed us that he was a candidate for circumcision and he wished to know if we agreed on him performing the procedure. He did what we think is a good job. He removed just enough skin so that my boy's penis will not retain residual urine. I have been taking care of my boy and now he is hassle free. I'm not sure if he's going to develop a psychological condition for something that was done to him when he was a few hours old, but I'm sure that he will have time in the future to recriminate me, along with tons of other stuff I will surely make him do, like going to football practice on days he's feeling lazy, or make him study math or teaching him how to ride a bike. I can hear him now: "Dad, didn't you know all of those things are dangerous and have left me psychologically and emotionally scared for life?"

I believe that it is about what you believe is good for whatever reason you have. If you feel that it is wrong you don't have to do it, but give others the possibility to keep doing what has been done for more than three thousand years in a community that has outlived most civilizations in history. Surely there must be something right.

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Yes. Everything points in that direction. The media attention drawn to Iran's president when he last visited. The ranking of Iran's military as a terrorist organization.

At least all the excuses are there, there is only need of a economic climate to launch an attack.

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I don't get it why people hate her so much. Bad choices, wrong decisions, shady past? She's a politician, all of them are like that. I would worry that Obama hasn't, perhaps he hasn't been one for a reasonable period of time.

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Done for for sure, but bent, not collapsed in its base.

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