Asked by:Is love or lust a bigger driving force in the world?
The tragic picture of the drowned Syrian toddler, or Kevin Carter’s picture of the starving Sudanese child with a vulture waiting to pounce, lead to compassionate letters about how we deal with the aftermath of the world’s tragedies. But where are the ideas for how we stop these tragedies at their source?
Can you tell us how we, the people, convince the United nations to act as a genuine force for good in the world by bringing together the might of the world’s most powerful nations to rectify, at its source, the trauma these individuals are enduring? Or can you suggest other ways we can act? I’m asking this question out of sheer frustration that we can do nothing more than be compassionate to the world’s victims AFTER the event. People power has achieved results before, so perhaps those caring people can do more now – but how?
Why is it, that at the age of 50, I am starting to realise that everything is a feminist issue?
I want to teach my 2 boys why this matters, so they can be feminists too.
Asked by:Is it possible to be a fatalist, an existentialist and a nihilist all at once?
Asked by:Why do we talk so much about moving forward when all we do is repeat ourselves?
Why are some people “lyrics” people and others not?
The lyrics are the last thing that matter to me when I listen to a piece of music (if I can even understand them it’s a plus). But for others they seem to be the most important thing of all (weirdos). Why is this so? Probably it doesn’t matter – I’m just curious.
Asked by:Why isn’t it mandatory for MPs to use the public services (schools, healthcare etc) they are charged with providing for the rest of us? Wouldn’t that improve them lickity split?
I believe that public institutions should be protected and invested in, and that those in power could use some further incentive to provide for this.
Asked by:If the NDIS funds 450k people with a disability, and the ABS lists 750k with severe or profound disability, who’s funding the remaining 300,000 people?
The NDIS is one enormous quango (QUasi-Autonomous National Government Organisation). My gut feeling is that three or four fold the amount of money given to people with a disability through their NDIS funding package has gone on the salaries and infrastructure of those setting up the system and those administering it. In my opinion, just one of the many downfalls of the system introduced.
So if we are born without an identity, without labels, without attachment- are we not therefore, born an ‘Enlightened Being’?
Asked by:Why is there still such a profound gender wage gap?
How are people okay with eating animal skin?
I can kind of understand eating flesh – we don’t even see our own flesh in that way, at least not if all goes well. But skin? We’re covered in it. Gross. Crackly, chewy, stretchy, crispy burnt skin. ‘You gonna eat that?’ Yeuch.
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