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... The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ing study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent scapes of Italy, is a titanic encoun... ...deadly" electric shocks to their colleagues or to treat them bestially in simulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal cr... ... A U T H O R SHMUEL (SAM) VAKNIN Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in trai... ... education units. Education 1970-1978: Completed nine semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. 1982-3: Ph.D. in Philosop... ...83 Founder and co-owner of a chain of computerised information kiosks in Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon G...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...ceptable depending on who is sitting on the high court. Gassing people in prisons is OK in one society but not in another. Torture, too, is valuable... ...minable for the Nazis to kill innocent Jews, but it is acceptable for the Israelis to kill innocent Palestinians or Lebanese. Hitler rationalized th... .... Hitler rationalized that the Jews were a danger to the Third Reich. The Israelis, before Balfour, said that they needed to take back their homelan... ...land through guerrilla warfare. After all, the Arabs were only caretaking Israel until the Jews returned. Since Balfour the Israelis say that the bes... ...osting over $25,000 a year to keep in jail and with the costs of building prisons at about $50,000 per cell, we have a considerable expense. Then we ... ...t starts with the family. It can‘t all be done by the state in schools and prisons. When it comes to restricting births, which should we value m...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... not loved, and not picked up, and kissed… they die. When babies are kept in prisons and not allowed out to explore: their natural curiosity dies s... ...such as the treaty of Versailles after the 1 st World War? Or Palestine and Israel? Or the destruction of all tribal boundaries in colonized Afri... ...ruly deranged; would be crazy enough, or desperate enough to steal anything. Prisons would be filled with mentally and emotionally sick kleptomaniac... ...onally sick kleptomaniacs. Prisons would be filled with the poorest people. Prisons would become a social scandal, a social stigma of National Sham... ...y were the complete anathema, the complete opposite of communal communism. Israel used a system of communes successfully to establish their coloni... ... burst open at any time. The artificial States of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, guarantee that there will never be at peace in t...

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