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kazan
Slightly off topic, but no, there isn't for the most part. I think it is a real issue that needs to be addressed.
But back on topic: this is just so messed up. You don't punish any child by punching them, and from the sound of the article, it doesn't even sound like this guy lashed out against something the child was doing at that moment. It almost sounds like he substituted gentle explanations/scolding with punches. And for crying out loud, if you are frustrated, punch a wall, punch a pillow, punch something that won't be hurt by your poor control.
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kazan
It would be a violation of the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors must take if they were to work to less than the best of their abilities to save a dying person, donor or not. Besides, the doctors don't get to decide who the organ goes to. There is a waiting list for each organ: organs have been rush-transported great distances for this purpose, and also the donor must be a blood/tissue match. Finally, the criteria for a "donor organ" is very strict - the person must have died in a specific way (people who die in car crashes often can't donate, as their organs get damaged by the crash; the same goes for people who have overdosed on medicine or drugs) and must also be within a certain physical condition (not too overweight or underweight, no damaging diseases). Even if you have a heart attack or stroke, the chemical changes and stress your body undergoes is sometimes enough to render your organs unacceptable.
My dad worked as an anaesthesiologist before he retired, and from his whole career, he could count the number of organ donors the hospital was able to get organs from on both his hands. This is why Japan needs to encourage the procedure - there are plenty of organ donors around the world, but very few viable organs.
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kazan
Ugh, this is so messed up. I hope the girl gets a chance to grow up in a safe and happy environment.
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kazan
There's a 19 year old kid from my area who has to be sent to the U.S. for a heart transplant at a prohibitively expensive cost - somewhere in the hundreds of millions of yen. I see his relatives and friends at almost every major event asking for donations. It's sad that he obviously cannot get a transplant here.
Speaking of donations, I've heard this excuse too. I find the culture of gift-giving/receiving here very polite, but it hasn't seem to have bred much of a charitable mindset, even when it comes to things that are of no use anymore. I've also heard a religious belief that if one's body isn't "whole" when one dies, you won't be able to pass into reincarnation/the afterlife; my friend gave this as the reason why she doesn't have pierced ears (I'm assuming she's probably not an organ donor).
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kazan
Because plenty of happy couples are living together and raising children together without getting married, I do think the (at least formal) institution of marriage is outdated. I think a lot of people are seeing this in the black-and-white view: you are either single or you are married. Who needs a certificate to tell them they are officially a family? There are certain financial benefits that come from being married, and of course, disadvantages as well, but whether or not you and your s.o. are married has little to do with the stability of a home and/or family.
So yeah, I think marriage will become outdated eventually.
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kazan
I'm certainly not disagreeing with that, but tkoind2 and stevecpfc explained it well. With the collapse of the financial system in America, Japan's homeless situation became even worse: thousands of factory workers were laid off and kicked out of company housing, rendering them jobless and homeless all at once. And many of these homeless are middle-aged and older men with no specific set of skills a.k.a. the very people nobody is hiring right now. Their situation is a lot worse than mere laziness.
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kazan
There are more reasons for being homeless than simply being lazy, you know. I wouldn't be so quick to judge.
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kazan
Wow, this is the dumbest idea ever. Just what Kyoto, the ancient capitol of Japan, famous for its temples and culture needs: an aquarium! Logic seems to have officially died in Japan.
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kazan
Zenny - I'm not disagreeing with you in that rape is about control, not sex. And while your winking smiley is tasteless, I also agree that resistance doesn't have to be physical.
However, the site still frustrates me. It might only be the wording of how they write the article, but seriously, 80% of women instigated the violence? It honestly does sound like they are trying to justify something. Coupled with what jamal2609 said up there (how did they get these figures? Why don't they disclose their research methods?) and I'm sincerely disinclined to believe that this site is a credible source for information about rape.
In newspaper talk, 'aquaintance' can mean anyone not related to you by blood or marriage. Newspapers tend not to use words like boyfriend unless they are deliberately trying to be sensationalist.
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kazan
Zenny - If a woman has to resort to physical violence to get a man to back off, the guy is already in the wrong. Whether or not a woman knows killer self-defense skills should not have an effect on whether or not she gets raped. I think what's bothering Cleo and I about the site (and I did explore it a bit) is that it doesn't address the underlying problem of rape, i.e. men's issues with self-control; I personally read this: "Welp, someone's going to sexually assault you and unless you study our self defence courses you're going to get raped."
We shouldn't have to worry about self-defense, protecting ourselves, or even this whole 'don't make the guy angry' nonsense. Rape is unacceptable, no matter what the circumstances are, and people need to learn that.
If she was in a relationship with the man, she would trust him enough to do that. If your significant other called you up in the middle of the night and said "I need to talk to you about something important" wouldn't you be worried? We don't have all the facts in this case, but her visit to his apartment (especially when she thought he was alone) was not neccessarily foolish.
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kazan
It honestly wouldn't be difficult for the girl to hide her condition; I've seen women here who are very obviously pregnant, and I've seen people like my neighbor, who look perhaps just a bit fatter than normal - if she hadn't had her baby a month later, I wouldn't have believed she was even pregnant.
As for the girl's actions, I feel sorry for her. She was clearly scared, and compounding that with the observation that the baby seeminly died soon after he was born, she reacted out of fear and did the only thing she could think of to hide what had happened.
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kazan
What's distressing to me about this article is to learn that some people (Takahashi, etc) clearly have an idea about how education can be made better - and to also learn that the policy makers aren't listening to them.
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kazan
We do not know for sure whether or not the baby's death was preventable or not; there are genetic issues that can result in a stillborn child that no treatment exists for. Like I said, we don't know many of the facts involved, but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt in the baby's death for the time being.
Disposal of the body, however, I still think she made a bad decision, so we are in agreement in that respect. She should have done the responsible thing, no matter how frightened she was.
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kazan
We don't know for sure that she killed her baby, it's unfair to make these assumptions.
I can think of a reason why she didn't take the baby's body to the hospital: if the hospital suspected foul play, she'd get turned in to the police. She might have been terrified of this, which led her to make the poor decision of using the garbage instead. Whatever the case, whatever happened, this is a sad event.
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kazan
Thanks for the correction. I don't doubt fewer people would be mad about the building of a multi-faith prayer room... but I can guarantee people would start freaking out when Muslims began showing up to use it.
Everything you wrote is absolutely spot on. I couldn't agree more.
Posted in: 9/11 anniversary politicized by mosque, Quran controversies
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kazan
PS. I know the Pentagon has no bearing on the New York site, but guess what - there's a mosque in there too. I don't see anyone freaking out about it the way they are over the proposed community center.
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kazan
How exactly would a community center be desecrating the dead? What about the practicing Muslims who were working in the two towers and in the Pentagon and died that day? Are they "outsiders"? Or a "historical/traditional enemy"? What a fine way to honor their memory, by continuing our irrational hatred for their religion. The fact that the 9/11 attackers were Muslim extremists should have no bearing on where people are allowed to worship or gather.
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kazan
MisterCreosote: I would think that most people would consider "hallowed ground" the place where the towers fell, not where they found plane engines. The point I was trying to make is people are making a huge deal about a mosque/community center being an insensitive gesture, while in my opinion, there are much more insensitive things much closer to the actual Ground Zero than the old BCF building.
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kazan
Ahh, people who don't read the news properly. The mosque isn't being built on the site of the attacks, it's several blocks away. There are porn stores closer to Ground Zero than the mosque is, so tell me, which is more disrespectful? And I included the Virgin Mary comment because again, the news misreported it. No dung was used on the painting, it was used as a stand to prop it up - just another example of the media twisting something to warp the opinions of the public.
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kazan
Bottles of clean water, and Calorie Mate, as well as some essential vitamins and maybe some dried fish or fruit.
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