Society
Exploring "Why" questions about Society
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Why do special effects and CGI cost so much money?
It's not just a program. It's the team of people needed to use those programs. Within the CG world, people tend to specialize.
Why do you rarely come across dollar bills with rips in them even though they are really easy to rip?
When banks come across damaged bills, of any denomination, they send them back to the federal reserve, which takes them out of circulation and replaces it with a new bill.
Why was Richard Nixon pardoned?
To put it very simply, president Ford said he wanted to put "this long national nightmare behind us" by pardoning Nixon. Basically he didn't want the country to get bogged down in all the trials and e
Why have Washington and Colorado not released people imprisoned for pot?
Because those people committed crimes. Just because something is legal today does not suddenly make them not-illegal when the crime was committed. The flip side of this is that you can do something th
Why is Jewish and Muslim more of an identity than Christian or Catholic.
It probably just seems that way in Europe and North America where Christianity is so ubiquitous. In places like the Middle East and Asia, where Christians are a minority, they constitute a very distin
Why do people like Warren Buffet continue to try and make as much money as possible, when they have so much that they could never spend it all?
When you control massive wealth you can do things nobody else can do. You get called by Presidents and Potentates when they need help or want your opinion. You get invited to the most interesting secr
Why is calling someone/something “Jew” more racist than saying “Jewish”
It's the difference between a noun and an adjective. Calling someone a Jew, as a noun, makes it seem as though their religion is the only important thing about them, and can be dehumanizing. "A Jewish
why do religions have similar stories and morals?
As previously mentioned, the Abrahamic faiths all have a common origin. As for why the rest do, its because the most common sense ones (murder, theft, lying, etc) are all necessary for a society to fu
Why was James Holmes, the ‘Dark Night’ movie shooter, declared ‘mentally ill’ and not ‘legally insane’ in court ?
Insanity is a legal term, not a psychological term. Insanity is simply an inability to distinguish between right and wrong and an inability to function within our society as a result of mental complic
Why do hotels always keep a bible in every guest room?
A large Christian organization called the Gideons gives them to the hotels as a way to evangelize.