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• A comment on Conversation: Veganism

  3 hours ago: Why Buddhists don't eat meat, was my 8 year old kid's question few months back. Tried to answer him with the thoughts behind, his next question was " don't they know that plants also are live ?
  
  I am neither in favor nor against vegaism. Can you please suggest what should be a good answer to such question ?
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  A comment on Conversation: We are seeing a change in scientific thinking from the reductionist to a holistic paradigm

  15 hours ago: Change is intrinsic nature of science. Due to this holistic approach in this era of super specialization team approach for scientific invention / discovery are now in place in many cases , where specialists of different branches come together and put forward their IMAGINATION , hypothesis , experimentation etc etc
  
  Imagination is the corner stone of any creative work whether it is branches of art or scientific discovery doesn't matter that's what I feel. Now whether imagination is a domain of cognitive function or not , I am not expert of that to say. Just curious , from where this IMAGINATION comes from ?Can any one imagine something they never experienced or seen ?Why someone is more imaginative than others ?

• A comment on Conversation: Is college really as important as our society today has made it out to be?

  1 day ago: If success means to be successful in job market and climb higher up then it is still important. Not only that but also from which college one is having the degree counts a lot .

• A comment on Conversation: Is equality feasible and is it worth achieving? Subquestion: By your definitions, is equality synonymous with fairness?

  1 day ago: By my definition , equality is not synonymous to fairness.
  In many instances in-equal treatment is fair......say if the goal is to reward performance in-equal treatment to different level of performer is fair.
  
  Important is in what perspective what one wants to achieve.
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  A comment on Conversation: What's the point of novels?

  1 day ago: Characters of Novel may or may not exist but what about rest ?
  I travel back to time when read Shakespeare or Homar to understand culture, people, society etc of that time. It's really cheap to go for such time travel.

• A comment on Conversation: Employer's 'Codes of Conduct' are violations of my civil rights

  1 day ago: Can you be a bit more specific ?
  What I know is that Code of Conduct of most BIG companies are aligned with UN Global Compact which covers many aspects like Human Rights, Women Empowerment, Child Labor, Minimum Wage, Responsibility to Environment etc ...keeping those aside lets talk about something very specific to individual company...
  Say any company expects "Data Privacy" of it's data from it's employee.
  Does it mean employee will protect it's data during her/his work time only , rest of the time being her/his private , s/he will use her Civil Right to disclose those ?
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  A comment on Conversation: What is one act of kindness you have witnessed, granted or received?

  2 days ago: The example I am going to tell is rather a mass one......
  Some days back , one 9 storied building with few garments manufacturing companies in it with thousands of workers inside in my country collapsed .It was one of the biggest disaster we faced in recent times. An online group of my country predicting need of Blood for wounded called for voluntary blood donation . Mass responded en mass. At one point that on line group had to declare " we collected more than enough blood we need" .
  
  Around that sad event lots of such kindness and heroic acts we came across from general people.

• A comment on Conversation: How can a global business create a fulfilling relationship with a local community?

  2 days ago: "Think Global Acting Local" is the idea on which global brands are working for sometime. However it depends on the industry , how it can achieve that considering life style , taste , desire , regulatory framework of different local markets with in same global village.
  Say if it is global food brand it has to be strike a balance between its global recipe , while adopting some local flavor in its product. If it is cosmetic brand , living standard of different local markets becomes more important and so on ...

• A comment on Conversation: Do teachers have adequate mental health support to cope with classroom stress?

  3 days ago: There is no generalized "YES " / "NO" answer to the main question .
  However your explanation has some food for thought yet can't be answer with straight forward "YES or NO "
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could give your twenty-year-old self one piece of advice, what would it be? Why?

  3 days ago: Be yourself .
  Because at that time I was seldom myself rather shadow of family desire.