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I also think a person owes an explanation. This is just a gut feeling on my part. But you gotta leave a note and leave your family and friends with something to help understand, although it will never resolve everything. My former stepbrother committed suicide several years ago and did not leave a n...

If I can resurrect this thread and make a slight left turn, I wonder about the moral obligations of people within our current paradigm, such as it is. I sense a strong feeling in this thread that people should have the right to end their lives, and a lot of policy ideas to change society. What about...

[quote=""Kasper""]In Denmark it's illegal to keep lost items. You are, however, entitled by law to receive 10% of the value from the owner if you find cash (I don't know if it's also the case with other items, like the violin in the OP). Morally it's probably not the best of laws...

I don't think anyone has seriously explored this possibility...although of course, it wouldn't be just that symbol, they'd have to do 1 for every religion and that would just make things very complicated. On a related note, though, the memorial used to be JUST the cross, but after the initial litiga...

PS the results are getting worse...

I say let them put their money where their mouth is. Those who want the ugly-ass cross to stay atop the mountain should take up a collection and buy the land from the city, then pay the upkeep on the damned thing themselves. Then, when they let it get all run down and crappy looking because of a la...

I'm not sure on the specifics, but there has been this notion out there for sometime that if it was federal park land, it's ok to have a cross. This is the same thing that was attempted last summer when 3/4 of voters voted to transfer the land to the feds for park land....that ballot measure was lat...

Another update! Our mayor and a congressman are trying to get President Bush to exercise eminent domain and take the land over. They hope it will occur in less than 90 days so we don't have to pay the fine. See letters written to the president here. http://www.sandiego.gov/mayor/pdf/soledad_letter_5...

Toto: The difference was, the city tried to deed the land to the feds (something about crosses being ok on federal memorials), as opposed to selling it to a private citizen/organization. Who knows....that may be the NEXT idea to come forward! They'll never get it sold in 90 days, though, so they'll ...

New info to report: Although various measures are on appeal and cross-supporters are still looking for loopholes and other opporutnities to maneuver, the judge has now said that the city of san diego must have the cross down in 90 days or else pay $5,000 per day after that that it is up. San Diego i...