The 'child' is a primordial dwarf. Her symptoms fit to the last detail.
This story has done time on Digg and Fark already, probably several other sites as well, and it seems everywhere large numbers of non-doctors can use Google to compare her symptoms to a RARE but known medical condition. The poor kid's doctors either don't know how to research or are otherwise incompetent.
Or maybe, just a wild thought here, maybe they have a slightly better insight into her symptoms, having actually examined her and seen her test results, and they have already ruled that out for reasons which your cursory diagnosis, based on reading an ABCnews article and several minutes of medical training, missed.
The things we argue about tend to be very very simple. It is the application to the real world that gets very very complex.
Take abortion for example. The real question is "When do we get a soul?"
We get souls? I missed the part where that was proven. Actually first you have to define what a soul is before you try arguing if and when we get issued one. And how does the moment of soul gifting alone define the issue? I think what you mean is if you want to oversimplify to make your own argument you can. Which means you don't disagree with TFA at all.
So... you say the US has more commitment than the UN to free speech, because the UN let someone give a speech, um, freely?
Of course
There is a significant difference in what Google was doing with books, where its stated purpose was to provide excerpts...
In the final confrontation with the alleged plagiarist the teacher would probably have to have the original work in hand.
So... Google provides only an excerpt but Turnitin gives the whole work? That would be a significant difference. How else does the teacher get their hands on the evidence? The real important difference is Google is doing this with books whose rights are controlled by major publishers and their lawyers, not students.
You cannot have two people responsible for the actions of one. Either the "inciter" is responsible, or we assume the "do-er" to be grown up enough to know what he is doing, and as such responsible. I can understand why one would feel that it is immoral to incite someone to commit a crime (esp. if it is murder), but still, it seems illogical to me that two people should be responsible for one crime (if they were not both performing it).*
So if I offer to pay you $5000 to kill my wife and you do... am I responsible or are you? There could be money in it if you get the answer right.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh