^ It'll be OK. Just breathe and take the blue pill.
"I can't decide": The Doctor and the Master
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And a few years ago Sharia law was equally obscure. The Beth Din is used in America too.
E pills are fun, to many and you forget what you did tho...
if you think the British are squeamish about killing people, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius
and, there's the lovely quote from one SAS soldier's testimony; when asked 'why did you shoot him 16 times?' the soldier replied: "Because the gun only holds sixteen bullets, sir."
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius
and, there's the lovely quote from one SAS soldier's testimony; when asked 'why did you shoot him 16 times?' the soldier replied: "Because the gun only holds sixteen bullets, sir."
Well, I'd say enough with the bullsh*t and back to the original topic.
Can't speak for the old show's portrayal of the Master, but the Tennant/Simm seemed to have a rather personal relationship. They were more like former-friends-turned-enemies and the Doctor genuinely pitied (rather than hated) the Master for his descend into madness (cue: "I forgive you").
This also fits with the later revelation that the Time Lords are directly responsible for the Master's insanity. So he's as much as a victim as he's a wrongdoer and the Doctor recognizes this.
Needless to say, I prefer this kind of complex relationship between "hero" and "villain" myself.
Can't speak for the old show's portrayal of the Master, but the Tennant/Simm seemed to have a rather personal relationship. They were more like former-friends-turned-enemies and the Doctor genuinely pitied (rather than hated) the Master for his descend into madness (cue: "I forgive you").
This also fits with the later revelation that the Time Lords are directly responsible for the Master's insanity. So he's as much as a victim as he's a wrongdoer and the Doctor recognizes this.
Needless to say, I prefer this kind of complex relationship between "hero" and "villain" myself.
Obviously that's a complication - but is theoretically equally possible under under any call arbitration system. I have heard, albeit seldom, of cases where a Sharia decision has been overturned for this reason.
Beth Din is the traditional Jewish Court, deciding on matter of Jewish Law, as a Sharia Court decides on matters of Muslim Law. Their decisions would hold equal status under the UK Law.
It should be emphasises that an arbitration court cannot enforce decisions outside of English or Welsh Law (in the UK there is a differential between English & Welsh and Scottish Law, I suppose in a similar way to State Law in the US). So-called "Honour killings," for example, are as illegal if called for by Sharia, or any other, court as a random murder would be. If anything I believe honour killings are treated more harshly.
It is the arbitration procedure that allows Sports Councils to make legally binding decisions in cases of drug use, misbehaviour on the field of play, or bring the game into disrepute.
I tried some reading around the subject, and I believe that a similar system does in fact exist under United States Law.
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Perhaps it might be a down to a philosophy that violence should only be used as a last resort.
But getting back to The Docotr and The Master, remember when they regenerate a new personality is created, i.e The Third Doctor tend to engage in more physical fights. The Seventh was more manipulative etc..
By the time The Master reappears in the 10th's era, The Doctor has been alone believing himself to be the last of his kind, then he finds out another of his race lives even if it his Moriarty to his Holmes. I suspect that he is likely to more forgiving.
^ Also, there's the possibility that one of them will change gender the next time he regenerates. 
^ Also, there's the possibility that one of them will change gender the next time he regenerates.
A Doctor Who and Master romance, he could always become the Mistress...something is really wrong with that idea
You're thinking of our preference for the under dog and tremendous sense of fair play. We don't bend over for minorities, we merely afford them the freedoms we all have a right to expect.
I can only assume that you have limited yourself to the conservative press because outside a few right wing groups, the British are secure enough with their identity to not feel the need to defend it from the 'minorities'
Having said that, theres no lack of violence in UK film and TV, if anything its the US that resorts to nauseating happy endings, we just don't worship the gun here.
Last time I researched it, the Per Capita Murder rate in the US versus the UK was pretty similar, so, the UK has just as many murders, but, they're being done with something other than a gun. Truth be told, if I gotta be murdered, I think I'd actually prefer being shot to death than knifed to death or bludgeoned to death
What about snogged to death? Snogging is very British.
I hate the term snogging, sounds like death from pigs would be called...
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The Doctor uses it, that's good enough for me.
My quick check using wikipedia, gives the UK murder rate at 1.28 and the US at 5.0 which means the US has a muder rate approx 400% higher than the US. Last I checked that isn't what would be described as similiar.
Of course some parts of the US will have a similiar if not lower rate than the UK.
Though some would argue that the easier access to firearms in the US is part of the reason for a higher murder rate.
things must've changed in the last few years then. I checked a few years back and it was only a difference of a couple points. 1.28 seems awfully low from, I believe they were both in the 5.0 rate prior
ETA: Ah, OK, perhaps I was wrong to use the term Per Capita? UK Population is considerably lower than the US population, you are probably going by how many out of 100,000 for both. That's not a fair comparison, you have to divide that 100,000 down (Or multiply the 1.28 by the Population differential in order to get the proper comparison of percent likelihood to be murdered)
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