Total dead: too many
Total injured: too many
Total relatives and friends of the dead and injured: too many
Total military dead in subsequent wars: too many
Total military injured in subsequent wars: too many
Total relatives and friends of the war dead and injured: too many
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SOPA is a US House bill 3261 (PIPA is the senate version) calling for stronger anti-piracy accountability on the internet. The original idea has some merits of course, many countries are rampant with piracy of movies and music that hurts American and other entertainment companies. I have no problem with them wanting to protect their intellectual and creative property, just as I want to protect mine.
The problem is that the bill is overkill. It allows corporations to shut down alleged violator’s websites without any due process or review from a neutral authority. That can, and you can bet will, lead to the capricious and damaging use of that power. A big multi-national corporation that just happens to not like the information and creativity on a website could easily put pressure on the host/provider, with legal backing, to close down the supposedly offensive site. Their ‘sin’ could be parody, or whistleblowing or creative sampling. Who knows. The point is that we want to protect intellectual rights. But we also want to protect creative and intellectual freedom and we can’t do that unless our laws follow guidelines that do not allow for abuse by those in power.
STOP SOPA.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman
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I believe in freedom of speech. But it is best if one learns freedom of thought and practice it BEFORE indulging in all that much speech. This is especially true in relationships, but it’s also true in politics, media, education and religion as well.
But what is freedom of thought? License to think whatever? Well, yes it is that. But it is more about being free to think through something clearly. To be free from a warped heritage for example, or an angry, habitual response mechanism, or a obsession with being witty, funny and attention getting instead of thoughtful and helpful.
It’s not just what you are free to do, it is also what you are free from.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher
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In honor of Earth Day I just want to say that Earth is my favorite planet of all time! By the way, did you know that if the earth were just one foot farther from the sun….I would be wearing a sweater right now!
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