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  A comment on Conversation: If communism was working the way its progenitors wanted it to, would it be better than capitalism?

  Apr 19 2013: In principle communism is perfect! It's a shame it will never work how it is supposed to work. It just cannot, we cannot fight our own nature...

• A comment on Conversation: If you could, what kind of superpower would you choose?

  Apr 15 2013: Hi Everybody,
  
  thanks for the very good discussion, I really enjoyed reading all your comments, although sometimes I was wondering if you are being honest or not. I know that all of us are special, we are who we are and we have to appreciate that we live, et cetera...
  Somebody mentioned that we have the superpower of imagination. I understand that this is a super power (wrote separately), but so many of us have it. It is special and I am glad that I have it, but what is the thing, guys, what you would like to excel in? If there was ONE thing that only YOU COULD DO!
  
  So.. if we have the super power of imagination - let's use it! Only one day left!

• A reply on Conversation: Do we have an opinion about everything? If not, should we?

  Apr 5 2013: If I had a greater understanding or felt very passionate about something I would express my opinion!
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  A comment on Conversation: Do we have an opinion about everything? If not, should we?

  Apr 3 2013: As I grow older there are less and less stuff I have strong opinions about and in most cases I tend to keep them to myself. There are very few things (like racial and gender equality) only which I would fight for pretty hard... Most of the things are super-complicated so it is not so good to have strong opinions about them.

• A comment on Conversation: If you could, what kind of superpower would you choose?

  Apr 3 2013: Okay, fair enough, but I think you guys are too modest. :)
  I feel very good and I'm a confident person and I know I don't need any superpowers to achieve great things in life, but I still thing that being able to fly or turn invisible or to have extraordinary strength would be awesome.
  Or I could list so many things here - reading thoughts, knowing languages, communicate perfectly, etc..
  Imagine having one of those and using them intelligently, for nice reasons, to help people...
  
  Millions of people are in need, don't you think a superpower of creating water would help them?

• A comment on Conversation: What is the most important invention of the past 50 years?

  Sep 22 2012: yet, calling it the MOST important invention of the past 50 years is obviously odd.

• A comment on Conversation: What are the best and worst laws and practices of your region/state/country

  Sep 22 2012: Inheritence tax
  I'm from Hungary and there are some tax related laws I really hate, but this is the one that disgusts me most... and I know it exists in many countries, but I also know that in some nice countries it is abolished or nonexistent.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most important invention of the past 50 years?

  Sep 22 2012: OK! :) why?

• A reply on Conversation: Love is overrated

  Sep 22 2012: One thing struck in my mind after reading your comment - love between parents and children, siblings, etc.
  These things seem obvious, but you really don't have a choice when it comes to these people. You love your mom and dad as a kid (and maybe you drift apart when you are an adult, but something ancient and deep will always be there, because you are their blood), but you never think about what would happen if she/he was a stranger, somebody you would meet in a bar - would you chat with him/her? Would you have something called love? I doubt it... And yet - these relationships between family-members can be really really good.
  
  So can be pre-arranged marriages in some cases, where, again, you don't really have a choice. - but that's a whole another debate...

• A reply on Conversation: Love is overrated

  Sep 22 2012: "I don't like the word love" from TED Lover. Nice! :))
  
  I agree with you, a real friendship is powerful, but many couples end up being friends after few years or months of the "rose coloured glasses". For some, it is enough and they remain together, but for many, I think, this is not and they end it. And sincerely, that sucks, because they were together for a reason, they started their own "friendship", they surely had a lot in common and it could have been something powerful. But they ended loving each other as a couple and it makes a friendship after the break-up impossible. A lot of potentially awesome friendships go down the toilet this way...