Questions & Answers

1. Civil disobedience
Is breaking the law for a cause justifiable?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/

-It could be justifiable. Depending on the cause and the type of actions taken. Civil disobedience may be the only way to get your point across. But at what point is civil disobedience taken too far?


2. What is the smartest animal?
http://animal.discovery.com/tv/a-list/creature-countdowns/smartest/smartest-01.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24628983/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/smartest-animals/#.T2uESVF49Rc

-Chimps are the smartest animal. However, technically humans are considered animals... so we would be the smartest animal.

3.How smart are robots now? How much have they advanced
http://www.robotics.org/content-detail.cfm/Industrial-Robotics-Feature-Article/After-50-Years-Robots-Have-New-Horizons/content_id/2531
http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20101101/world-s-most-advanced-robots/

-Robots are becoming more and more advanced, they already make our cars are sent into war etc. Now they are being made with emotions and can actually recognize themselves in mirrors.

4. Should teens take a gap year in between high school and college?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-06-18-gap-year_N.htm

Gives grads valuable life lessons, and sends them to college more prepared and with better skills. Could be adapted in the United States.