Thursday, May 24, 2007

deficiency of c6-c8 leads to neisseria bactermia

there's a new poll out that evaluates muslim reactions to suicide bombings. it found that about 25% of muslim youths think that suicide bombings in defense of Islam are justified even when killing innocent bystanders.

i'm not totally sure what to think about the poll, either the point of it or what we should take away from it. i do know that the media is using it to whip people into a frenzy against american muslims. i think another interesting poll would research the number of americans who see muslim youths and think that they support suicide bombers.

one thing i've been thinking about is how when we marginalize and force people into molds, it becomes easier to fit into the molds. when we use violence and a "we must dominate" frame of mind, we turn everyone who is not with us into our enemy. does categorizing or making polls about suicide bombings change people's opinions about themselves? if i were something bad, say a staunch right wing republican (just kidding) and everyone knew that and assumed that about me, does it make it easier and more fulfilling to be an extreme staunch right wing republican?

the title is a line from the page i'm open to right now. if you have a congenital deficit of certain proteins, you get gonorrhea a lot more often. could you use that to your advantage? "i swear, it's just my genes, hillary. i did not touch that woman." anyway, i'm studying immunity and STDs. why am i thinking about polls?

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