Why do we never see pigeon babies?
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    Belinda Reemer
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    Why don’t people convert carbon dioxide into something else to reduce climate change?
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    It concerns global warming and climate change. Others should care about it because it will be the end of the world if we don’t resolve the issue.

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    Kimberley
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    Why be good?
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    We often have a choice between doing what we know is right, and doing what will gratify or benefit ourselves (even at the expense of others). So, why be good?

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    Chris Gill
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    In an inclusive society will we ditch the career ladder and make all employment pathways accessible?
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    We need more people with disabilities employed as leaders. We need flexible workplaces that don’t just reward people based on the amount of hours they can work. We need deeper understanding in recruitment processes to why not everyone has a linear career path or the opportunity for any kind of regular employment.

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    @flinderslane
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    What or who are the offspring of Capitalism and Oligarchy?
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    Because of the question being posed to Y Varoufakis. It seems to be happening in Russia, so it may be important to us all ‘down the road’!

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    @ntbay
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    How can we balance global overpopulation while reducing the terrible suffering of factory farmed animals?
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    It is one of the things that keeps me awake at night the suffering of innocent creatures to feed the ego driven need of humans to reproduce themselves with no consideration but ther own desire or ignorance.
    We cannot call ourselves civilised while we continue down this path.

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    Karen
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    Why do so many Australians leave?
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    About one in twenty Australians live overseas at any given time – among the highest ratios of expatriates to residents of any country in the world. Why do so many of us leave? How do we relate to the people and places and culture we leave behind? And why do we come back? Since becoming an expat myself (one of the 200,000 Australians in London) I’ve often imagined that our wanderlust says something about our national psyche. But what?

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    @Simon_Collinson
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    Should “Go Set a Watchman” have been published?
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    I am perturbed by the conflicting stories around whether Harper Lee actually consented to publication. And that plays with a bigger question in my mind about artist’s legacies and what happens to their unpublished or unreleased work posthumously.

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    @@tea_n_see
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    Why does it take something to happen to ‘you’ before one shows compassion to others in the same circumstance or before one ‘understands’?
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    I think it is the answer that will bring about the most help in the world.

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    Ally
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    Why a festival of Interrobang?
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    It seemed the obvious question to ask and it doesn’t matter to me but I will be interested in any responses.

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    Eddie Creaney
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    How can we be assured that we don’t develop artificial intelligence to the point that some independent entity decides that we humans are THE problem and presses delete?
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    AI engineers might be doing what engineers do, working in a reductionist way on a discrete part of a problem with the ethical contexts left to someone else. The commercial drive to develop better and better AI should make us all nervous unless we have absolute transparency, ‘commercial-in-confidence’ is not helpful here.

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    @GHuntHunt
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    Who decided what is ‘masculine’ and what is ‘feminine’ and will we ever be able to deconstruct the gender binary?
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    We’re pushing for gender equality, but will it ever be achieved if we don’t remove the damaging labels and restrictions the gender binary holds in place? Where do transgender, agender and gender fluid individuals fit in?

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    @@joshuawords
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    How much is capitalism to blame for our collective shame, sense of worthlessness and desperation to personally compete with each other?
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    I wonder how much the western world’s pursuit for economic growth, personal wealth and status ultimately has an impact on our levels of happiness, mental illness and capacity to generally have little empathy for others, even just on a day-to-day level between mates. Or is this just human nature? Are we fundamentally greedy bastards?

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    Kristy
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