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Who else is considered too big/important to jail?
HSbc banking literally paid off with a fine, wall st and other bankers get away with money,
Celebrities that go to jail and released early do not count
3 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years agoWhat would people be willing to give up/cut from the US budget?
The US president gave a speech that the public need to push politicians to make change, but the bill Maher show recently proved that the public are just as bad at the politicians about what to Cut in the budget. BY NOT knowing what to cut, but keeps on demanding less Government spending, they were even given a list of things to cut, but no one wanted to cut anything
7 AnswersCivic Participation8 years agoShould the quote be changed into "liberty and justice for SOME"? Instead of for ALL.?
THe rich and powerful are able to get away with murder or in this case supporting for murder. Just like what HSBC did. The money they were fined with was something that they could earn back in one month.
9 AnswersPolitics8 years agohow profitable is war? If we did not want it then we would not be waging it against others?
I know, that it is a matter of survival. but sometimes, people do it for other reasons
George carlin, said some countries are not good at anything else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_wjQtfhZQ
Even people who supply weapons for war gain, whether the people they supply win or lose
1 AnswerCurrent Events8 years agoWHy would Artificial intelligence rebel against humanity?
Why did skynet rebel go against humans?
If it was programmed to do so, it would not be the AI's fault, wouldn't it?
Need real plausible answers
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhy are firearms being taken away or being banned or new laws? You do not need guns to kill people?
Americans are pro and for against guns.
Isn't there other things that we can prioritize like debt, unemployment, education, healthcare, overpopulation, etc.?
2 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years agoShould people still follow the rules and laws?
The HSBC banking was discovered to laundering money to people, governments labeled as terrorist.
HSBC got away because:
1. The loss of HSBC banking license would collapse the economy.
2. The people in charge are labeled as too important to imprison/sentence
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agowhy do people "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!"?
It churns my butter, whenever people do/say that.
I know there is a book titled as that.
I have not done anything, that I have not said. I keep my promises and stick with my ideas
2 AnswersEtiquette8 years agoWhat would happen if geniuses or people with above average is started running things?
I know that stupid people outbreed the smarter ones (Ideocracy film)
4 AnswersSociology8 years agoWhat are the pros and cons of using drones?
Those remote controlled units that civilian and military use for whatever purpose
2 AnswersMilitary8 years agoHow would irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrials affect religions?
Would people still believe in religion?
What if the aliens had their own religions and acted like those door to door religions affect preaching about alien religion?
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhat is religion and its purpose?
My friend and I talked about it and I viewed it was a lie (hope), a way to control the masses and a punishment/reward system.
My friends viewed it as hope(positive), a tutorial of some sort to help people in a changing world
21 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhy do laws exist, when people bend and/or break them?
Even the people who enforce, make and translate/interpret the laws break them.
5 AnswersOther - Cultures & Groups8 years agoWhy are people still okay with the banking system, even though it is a fraud?
Problem due to fractional reserve banking
It rips people off.
Banks create money out of nothing, with no value or backing, yet it charges people a fee
4 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years agoWhy is the black market illegal?
People have needs: Medicine, food, water, etc.
Isn't it a source of hard to find materials, yet some other group denies it from other people and benefit from it?
9 AnswersOther - Cultures & Groups8 years agoWhat is difference between a gang and civilizations?
Don't they make rules, laws, regulations that are acceptable to their group?
1 AnswerSociology8 years agoDo people follow rules because rule compliance, pain compliance or fearing pain?
People break rules/laws and they get away with it.
Celebrities are treated differently than others.
1 AnswerPsychology8 years agoAre doctors violating the hippocratic oath, when they do not treat patients without money?
isn't this the hypocritical oath from the movie John Q. Where the doctors stabilize the patient and then the patient goes out
7 AnswersLaw & Ethics8 years agoDO I need license or permission, if I could build faster than light travel/technology?
Does it violate any laws if i build or use it?
2 AnswersOther - Cars & Transportation8 years agoIf I created a new technology, such as faster than light travel, do I need to have a licence to do and use it?
How about licences or persmission to build it, even if I build it on my own?
Will it have to go under review, with other specialist.
Even with "specialist, scientist, engineers" How important will these people be, If I am the first person to develop the technology?
2 AnswersAstronomy & Space8 years ago