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• A reply on Conversation: Drinking Cow/Buffalo or any animal's Milk is Ethical ?

  18 hours ago: You are right. Same happens is about cheese and also lactose free milk is fine . In all these instances application of human science and technology is necessary but in natural form after collecting it from animal some people can't tolerate milk.
  
  That being said human being being omnivorous it found its food from varied natural sources of which one is milk .

• A comment on Conversation: When fighting for rights, which is tougher: a battle against an oppressive government, or a battle against an oppressive society?

  1 day ago: Oppressive society is tougher to fight with as here oppression remain deep rooted in every aspect of society that in turn can also give more strength to the oppressive government. On the other hand to if it is oppressive government it depends on only few power centers and may not have any support from society not being oppressive itself , so it's easier to over throw such oppressive government.

• A reply on Conversation: Do we need privacy?

  1 day ago: Very right you are regarding the context. The case of privacy is very much delicate even after having some context . Say a person may expect a level of privacy from her/ his partner but when all other contexts bare same just with the change of a person the privacy changes, e.g. In the same time frame if s/he is talking to a doctor it changes dramatically.
  
  Here in online some uses disguised ID considering it's her/his privacy not to disclose original identity but others not.
  Privacy concept of a person with her/his person to her/his partner is different if they are living in a one room house to a mansion.
  So I feel it's really very delicate issue with contextual background.

• A comment on Conversation: Will borderless continents solve our economic crises or will they create more inequality? The world in a few decades...

  2 days ago: From the question it sounds like when there was no economic crisis there was no inequality , which is not a reality. In our current economic model whatever irrespective of change in the geopolitical boundary concept , inequality will prevail . Moreover this current economical crisis also will be resolved without any change in geopolitical boundaries as it happened earlier as well.

• A comment on Conversation: Do we need privacy?

  2 days ago: Yes , but the definition of privacy is relative to a person, place, time, situation etc etc .

• A comment on Conversation: Educational leadership

  2 days ago: It sounds like you are referring to only Leadership by Example . That's only one of many ways of influencing people by a leader. Another way is creating a compelling vision for which team will be inspired to go for even seemingly impossible goals. Another one is as described by Fritzie in his post here. Creating trust among followers is key to win people to make them follow, best way of achieving that is " walking the way one is talking" . And so on , actually in leadership there is no single cook book solution that will be successful in all cases, that's what I feel.
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  A comment on Conversation: Drinking Cow/Buffalo or any animal's Milk is Ethical ?

  2 days ago: Since long our ethical standard has not been changed regarding this , so it's ethical so far. However you are right animal milks are for their babies and human system is not fully aligned to digest animal milk in many cases so there are lot of people who suffers from a medical condition named Milk Intolerance or to be more specific Lactose Intolerance. Technology has created alternative like soya milk .

• A reply on Conversation: Smoking and illegal drugs are down, Obesity is up. (USA) Is there a correlation?

  2 days ago: Thanks for sharing your findings. Yes obesity in children is also in rise , which actually a strong point against your subject here as these kids were never exposed smoking or drugs.
  It's not only occupation that made us sedentary , it's something more than that , as a kid whatever I used play , it was in the field. Now my kids play on computers or various handheld devices. Besides playing , I used to roam around my neighborhood during whenever I used get opportunity, now for security reason my kids are not allowed to do that , so either they are sitting in front of TV or playing games in computer. So sedentary life style is prevalent among kids as well .
  
  Not sure whether 30 / 50 years is enough time to bring some mutation in gene due to the adaptation to the new life style to make obesity a genetic trait. My feeling its rather an acquired trait. However confirmation of such things need proven scientific evidence.
  
  By the way , from your research did you find anything about the contribution of our changed dietary habit to obesity ?
  
  Last not least what I heard , as Tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise their products in any media , what they are doing is targeting people with the message that smoking helps to reduce body weight or obesity ...... Specially young girls and ladies are their target for this message. This is partially true , as some other posts already mentioned here that smoking reduces appetite .

• A reply on Conversation: In TED do we really give "thumbs up" when it is "argued well"? Or do we give "Thumbs up" when "we agree with it"?

  3 days ago: Thanks Colleen.....I know your generosity :)

• A reply on Conversation: In TED do we really give "thumbs up" when it is "argued well"? Or do we give "Thumbs up" when "we agree with it"?

  3 days ago: That's what matters if at all....I mean why people gave " Thumbs Up " you may or may not be sure of it...but how you feel after getting it that you can be sure of :)