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77Why people Kill
There are many reasons why people kill. Sometimes it's fear. If you are desperately afraid of someone hurting you physically you might lash out, with or without the intent to kill. This could be spur of the moment, as in self defence if being...
9 comments70Punishments do not always fit the crime
The way prisoners were treated in Victorian times was very harsh, even barbaric. The idea of someone in the western world today being executed for vandalism or pickpocketing seems at the very least rather an extreme way of dealing with the problem!...
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57Animal Rights and helping to make a difference
Animal rights - a thorny issue. There are those who would argue that animals are not entitled to any 'rights', that they are here merely to make our own existence more comfortable. Well, any one with an iota of common sense will agree that those who...
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57More pets that have enriched my life
My beloved Rover. Rover was ten months old when his previous owner (a man who worked with my boyfriend), left him outside our back door tied by a thick, heavy chain to a metal pole set in a concrete-filled...
0 comments51Credit lenders need to be held accountable for more than our economic woes
 Unemployment is a factor in some crime as lack of money leads to financial worries which can make a person desperate enough to consider taking risks that under normal circumstances they would never...
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74Historical ways of dealing with crime
Throughout history ways of dealing with criminals have swung from the ridiculous to the barbaric. The seriousness of different crimes has also changed from time to time. At one point in 'ye olde Englande', to...
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63What right does anyone have to tell a woman she should not use pain relief during childbirth?
I read an article today that I found to be extremely exasperating (I'm holding back here). Associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University, Dr Denis Walsh (yes, a man), expressed his view that the...
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67Pets that have enriched my life
When I was about 9 years old, my adult cousin gave his widowed mother, my aunt, a dog for company. Her name was Clancy, and he chose her out of all the dogs in the dogs'home because she was among the next on...
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68How dogs help us to be better people
It can be hard getting to know new people, particularly when you move to a new area. It's not always easy to tell if a stranger will welcome efforts to strike up a conversation. Unless, that is, one of you happens to be walking a dog. It's a great...
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