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    Valedictorian

    The valedictorian spot is good for those top few. They're competing, the school is doing its job very well. Of course most people would be wiped out after the first term freshman year, that's the whole point. The concept might be outdated, especially with the overly broad range of subjects...
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    What if 9/11 happened in another country?

    A 9/11 couldn't happen in another country. If you want to send a message job and a declaration of war on the Western world, the only way you do it is on America. What, you're going to bomb Big Ben? The WTC is the only reasonable site to crash a plane into if you want your message sent. Then they...
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    Anti-Child Society

    I believe the declining birth rate is really from only two things, very closely related: firstly, starting in the 1970s, you have women taking jobs alongside their husbands to sustain the American lifestyle. This leaves them, on average, less time to raise their kids. The second thing is that...
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    Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

    Amazingly, I can't recall any instance that my high school pulled a dick move, at least one remotely as nasty as the ones that people have talked about. Literally the only thing I can think of is that after my 2nd year, they required a teacher down in the theater tech room for people to use...
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    Poll: 7 billion people, one opinion.

    Except the scholarly opinion, in this case, was the only voice of power - I'm fairly certain that a majority of the population would not believe the world was flat, for it was certainly not preached to them. And certainly, no major decisions were made on that notion that the world was flat...
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    Poll: 7 billion people, one opinion.

    I literally skimmed the rest of the thread just to see if anyone else has addressed this yet, and nobody has, so I guess I'll be the first to point out that the Earth was proven to be spherical by the 3rd century BCE, and that by the Medieval period, essentially every scholar acknowledged that...
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    Landlord sued for disallowing medical pets

    Maybe you're right, maybe you're not. But that's for the doctor to decide, not the law, and the doctor's decision has to be respected by the law in this case. The point is not whether the animal is necessary, even if it might be an issue, the point is that it has already been deemed necessary...
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    Poll: Should British Police be armed?

    I say yes, and this is because I have grown up in NYC, where it isn't uncommon to find 6-man squads armed with assault rifles and sniffer dogs in subway stations now, and where I don't recall a single shooting incident involving them. They're a very effective deterrent. Even the regular police...
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    Do you believe in love?

    There's definitely true love out there. There are some people that are simply worth defending with your life. I don't know of true love that exists in the form of a marriage. The thing about relationships in our modern age, is that they end. They end in some way or another, and the love...
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    Tea Please!! :3

    I enjoy Irish Breakfast, Earl Grey, Orange Pekoe.... I go to this one place in Brooklyn, they sell the leaves straight up. Greatest tea ever.
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    Handwriting: Should it continue to be taught?

    There's a difference between handwriting and caligraphy here. As has been mentioned in this thread already, writing in cursive is just.... I don't know. Part of me thinks that people still write in cursive, and so we should teach reading in cursive. And certainly, learning a signature is...
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    Every human has a darker, more primal side.

    I haven't had this "primal side" overcome me, if it even exists. And that's my biggest issue with the OP, because if anything, I have seen the primal side of an individual be used more for altruistic purposes than selfish purposes. I have seen injured dogs, and people who would consciously not...
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    You're a guy on a date. Who pays?

    I'm Russian. The culture is that if there is a remote chance the guy and girl can get into a relationship, the guy pays for everything. Quite literally the only time females pay is when the two of them are close friends, in which case they'll usually split it. So to answer the OP, the guy...
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    Need help with my laptop, I think I got a virus

    If you can't find it, remember you can always do a system restore. It sucks and it takes a bit of time, but it generally solves system file problems. I actually recently had an insane bug where I booted up my laptop and the goddamned desktop system file was missing, had to do a system restore on...
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    What game do you think has the most well executed story?

    First of all, I'd like to point out that I do not correlate story with plot. A story is more than a plot, it is atmosphere, plot, character, and almost every background detail put together. A great plot should not mean a great story - it usually does, but a phenomenal story may be told even with...