This is like saying segregation wasn't actually so bad because 'look, we gave the blacks water fountains'

Come on. Don't be like that. You know fully well.

...and he sustained bodily injury

The author's reaction was hoping that the verdict doesn't want to make her 'restage the LA riots' and yours is hoping to not need a peaceful protest. I like your reaction a lot more.

The LA Riot line really made me cringe. I know it was meant to be hyperbolic and darkly humorous, but that is one of the worst moments in our recent history and an event that victimized a huge swath of LA's Black community. Not to mention the senseless violence that befell innocent White, Asian and Latino bystanders.

Check out Judith Jarvis Thomson's violinist analogy. That's what I was trying to come up with earlier. I think it makes the same case you are, but just a little more parallel.

I hear you. Also, you're thoughtful and polite on the internet so I'd like to give you a big thumbs up for being a solid person in a place where a lot of people aren't.

I completely agree with the vast majority of that. There are two things that have a strong statistical correlation to decreased abortions: education and access to contraceptives. Both of those things are more likely to come from the Democrats, but everybody that's 'anti-abortion' is a Republican. One of the…

I understand that both cases require one persons body to keep the other living, but the mechanisms for doing it are different. One is an action the other is an inaction.

I think you missed my point. Arguments by analogy are only as strong as the analogy. Forcing somebody to donate organs is forcing an action. Forcing somebody to keep a baby until term is a prohibition against another action: abortion. It may seem like a small difference, but when you're making this kind of…

I don't think that follows. It doesn't strike me as being that simple. It's not a general rights vs rights issue. It's specific 2 rights in question. The right to life vs the right to 9 months of bodily autonomy. Prioritizing a man's right to property over a woman's right to property is clearly misogyny. I think…

Setting aside medically necessary abortions, I think it's an oversimplification to automatically label them all misogynist for opposing abortions. I'm sure plenty of people do think that a woman is incapable of making that kind of decision just because she's a woman. But the dominant pro-life view is pretty simple…

I think there are some better analogies and thought experiments out there than the organ donation one. In that situation, if no action is taken/status quo is maintained you end up with a dead person. In the case of a pregnancy, if no action is taken the pregnancy probably results in a birth. Given that the act of…

Better sex ed will do more. Preventative measures are much preferable to treatment.

And a disproportionate percentage die young, which is to say don't reach marrying age, on top of it all.

Um, nope. Not at all what I said, and I'm not really sure how you took it that way.

Not to engage in victim blaming, but I think it's important to educate potential victims too about the steps that can be taken to protect your privacy and personal info online. As a general rule, you might as well assume that anything you post online will be seen by a crazed psychopath who wants to harm you, so not…

Too bad when you make a list of directors Scorsese should have included, you neglected to mention any trans or intersex filmmakers. Pot calling the kettle black?

We all know where roads paved with good intentions lead, but I think in this case it's appropriate for Beck to bring it up. The attacks/swipes/hard-right outrage against MHP is (in my eyes) fairly clearly about her and what she represents more than it is about the actual incident. Inasmuch as MHP the person and her…

She doesn't address their 'feelings' explicitly, but she does speak to many issues currently facing vets. By showing concern for their post-service care, PTSD, sexual assaults, etc they face, I don't know how you could say she lacks empathy. She's clearly tuned into a set of issues that are much more pressing than…