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Sure, that's what's great about democracy, we can vote for what the majority wants. I was responding to what cbanek wrote, as it seemed to me that cbanek did not correctly understand some of the pro-lifers viewpoints.

A lot of pro life people feel that actively killing sometime (they consider a fetus alive) is very bad and should be stopped. Where as keeping another person alive (not passively killing them) and happy is the individuals responsibility.

Think about the trolley problem. In one case you passively kill 4 people and in the other case you actively kill 1. Pro life people would probably choose to passively kill 4 while pro choice would probably choose to actively kill 1.

the benefit of languages with cases is that you can switch the order of the sentence without changing the meaning. In those languages I can say "the dog bit the person" and "the (accusative) person bit the (nominative) dog" and it would not change the meaning of the sentence but it would allow me to emphasize one object more.

Does anyone have thoughts on XMPP? If I understand correctly it is a group / private chat protocol similar to email in that there is a protocol that can allow you to communicate to each other. Similar to email there are many companies that offer software that can communicate with any other software using that protocol.

Since it is simply an open protocol if one app gets compromised, users can easily switch to another without having to worry about loosing touch with their contacts.

seeing as most Semitic languages are written without vowels, I would assume that almost all of them have heteronyms

One thing that Google really should do is allow a feature to temporarily give permissions or fake giving permissions. For example, I want to send my location on Whatsapp then I would want it to ask for permissions every time. Similar to how certain websites cannot access my microphone just because I let them do it once, neither should apps.

This reminds me of a Rabbi who I forgot his name. There are Jewish communities that like to speak in Yiddish and others where the members do not know Yiddish. There was a Rabbi who wanted to appease to a greater audience by giving his sermons in Yiddish. The only problem was that he didn't speak Yiddish, nor did a lot of people who wanted to hear him. So, he made a list of about 300 Yiddish words and small section about grammar. It was meant for people who knew Hebrew and English (Yiddish is basically German + Hebrew + Russian + Eastern European languages). He then learned how to use all of those words.

The idea was that the Rabbi would only use the 300 words on the list (plus Hebrew, English, and Aramaic for quotes) during his sermon. That way, it wouldn't be to hard for a non-native Yiddish speaker to understand his sermons.

Just renouncing US citizenship costs several thousand dollars in legal fees and could take up to 5 years. What you are suggesting is similar to telling someone who is complaining about rent prices to just buy a house.

I am a citizen of a foreign country, I have a job in that country, I store my money in that country, I buy practically all of my products in that country. Why should the fact that when I was a baby, the US government decided to give me citizenship cause me to pay more taxes (or at least pay more to file) than my neighbor who is not a US citizen?

you're confusing 2 things. before passover, Jews make a declaration claiming that all crumbs and other hametz not found should be like dust.

if however someone had something valuable, like a bottle of whiskey, then they sell it.

I have to disagree. Apart from maybe post WW2 in America, the average person has always had to work much harder than the elite. There were sweatshops, Kings, slavery, and colonialism. If we look at American now, even with all of its issues, it is much better for the middle and lower class than it was 100 years ago.

I think that's because other cultures don't mind telling others that they are busy /s

I'm not from the US but don't IDs require proof of citizenship? I mean, if an illegal immigrant were to try to get a driver license wouldn't they have to prove that they were legally in the US? Or can anyone from any country take a driving test and get a legal American drivers license?

If the later, then I can understand why people are against requiring such an arbitrary form of identification.