28th February 2007, 11:43 AM
Well I suppose you don't HAVE to flush it... But considering that proper waste management is one of the things that eliminated the previous social ills of literal social ills wiping people out constantly, I'd say it's recommended.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)