{"id":51,"date":"2003-08-19T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:08:14","slug":"crime-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/08\/19\/crime-and-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime and Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">nope, nothing to do with the book&#8230;&#8230;just another curious idea that entered my head&#8230;..when we do regard animals and plants as living beings, and even thinking beings, how come people who kill them go scot free, yes, there is a hype when the odd salman shoots a buck, but otherwise , what about the chickens, cows, lambs, fishes, crabs, shrimps etc&#8230; no, i am not being ultra moral, i was just wondering about the double standards of us humans, we cry murder, (no pun intended) when there is a human killing involved, but we choose to close our eyes to the co inhabitants of our planet&#8230;..<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">i am non veggie , so i can only be so objective &#8230; but even in case of veggies, plants are living too&#8230;.now if we do state an argument that it is darwin&#8217;s rule being practically applied here, we have to apply the same thing to happenings within the human species too, shouldnt we, just to be fair??<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">oh man, it helps to have an ad in the front page, hehe, my counter isnt moving&#8230;&#8230; :-), unlike our award winners, i am not going to claim that the count does not matter and i get satisfaction from my work, hehe&#8230;so thats it for the day, with the only thing left being<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">manuscrypts trivia<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">a fwd i got&#8230;An elderly couple are sitting around one evening and the man says to the wife, &#8220;Marsha, we are about to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary.We&#8217;ve had a wonderful life together, full of contentment and blessings.But there&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always wondered about.Tell me the truth.Have you ever been unfaithful to me?&#8221;She hesitates a moment, then says, &#8220;Yes, 3 times,Sidney.&#8221;&#8221;Three times? How could that happen?&#8221; Sidney asks.The wife begins recalling slowly, &#8220;Well, do you remember right after we were married and we were so broke, and the bank wasgoing to foreclose on our little house?&#8221;&#8221;Yes, dear, that was really a terrible time&#8221; replies the man.Marsha continued, &#8220;And remember when I went to see the banker one night and the next day the bank extended our loan?&#8221;&#8221;That&#8217;s hard to take&#8221; the man says, &#8220;but I guess it really was for us,so I can forgive you.&#8221;&#8221;What was the second time?&#8221;&#8221;Well,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;do you remember years later when you almost died from the heart problem because we couldn&#8217;t afford theoperation?&#8221;&#8221;Yes, of course&#8221; the man replies.&#8221;Then you will remember that right after I went to see the doctor, he did your operation at no cost?&#8221; she explained.&#8221;That&#8217;s true&#8221; Sidney nodded. &#8220;That shocks me, Marsha, but I do understand that you did it out of love for me, and I forgive you.So, what was the third time?&#8221;Marsha lowers her head and says, &#8220;Sidney, do you remember when you ran for Country Club President and you needed 62 morevotes?&#8221;Sidney fainted&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nope, nothing to do with the book&#8230;&#8230;just another curious idea that entered my head&#8230;..when we do regard animals and plants as living beings, and even thinking beings, how come people who kill them go scot free, yes, there is a hype when the odd salman shoots a buck, but otherwise , what about the chickens, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2003\/08\/19\/crime-and-punishment\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[6076,6078,6077],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-crime","tag-eating","tag-punishment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15147,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/15147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}