I think you’re confusing conscious human-imposed systems with limitations in human nature. And in this case, the ridiculous and naive change you're suggesting wouldn't even be for the better.

Funny thing about the world, it doesn't need excuses to work the way it works. It's people who need excuses for ideas that don't take into account how the world works.

Dude, dude. I’m with you, but don’t let them have Orwell. This is not what he was talking about, and don’t let them change popular discourse about his legacy to regard him this way. Orwell was writing about patriotic fervor and the ruling classes using perpetual war as a pretext to preserve wealth disparity through…

So, “Ignore what the actual proposed laws and discussion now are saying, and instead focus on this hypothetical 15-year future scenario that I made up. Because regulation of gasoline is like being imprisoned without charges for thoughtcrime and being forced into a permanent and unnecessary life of poverty.”

Which is how it has worked... Never.

Having one mentally and morally compromised parent, even for years living at a great distance, this is one argument I have to disagree with. No one can know what her kids feel but the kids themselves, but I think it’s just as possible her execution will bring them a complicated sort of closure, and an ability to move…

Gawker media once gay shamed a person, and very recently slut shamed a rival media head.... But by all means, continue to pretend like you don’t understand the banality of evil.

How could I have ever accused you of sloppy argumentation, shitskull?

Thorin, you know this is going to kill you when you finally get caught. Not saying I’m gonna out you, just, the internet is forever. Plead or ignore as you like. Just enjoy the bed you've been making and have now bought sheets for.

Well, okay. Thanks for letting us know that you area aware of your autism. Meanwhile, the question was actually about assholes putting their foot in their mouths. But meanwhile if you'd rather deploy technicalities to defend assholes, you can definitely do that.

Yes absolutely. Also, enjoy all the technicality back flipping through your actual point you undoubtedly already got for this comment.

Your first sentence actually explains your second sentence, if you were endowed with self awareness and a love of democratic liberties. Have you ever once stopped to think before you've said anything? You're one for one in demonstrating that you're not familiar with the concept.

Nobody can complain the food was messed with, nobody can complain the server did anything illegal or abusive.

Well, I mean, you were using the right term for the concept you were describing. The median of a dataset IS a value IN the dataset, whereas the average need not be. So someone has to make the median, or else it's not the median.

That is, again, not how the median works. Median. Not average, not mean. Median.

Outliers don't really bump the median. You're thinking of averages.

If we’re going to do the (thoroughly stupid and counterproductive) dick-measuring contest of which service industry jobs involve the most shit-taking, try working at a hotel. You think dealing with assailed for an hour at a time is bad? Try a week or two.

“New”? You must not be very old.

They're gonna learn that because some cunty stranger they've never met and will never see again had an obvious meltdown in front of them? Kids know what a tantrum looks like better than anyone.

In sum, you're a weak, shitty person, and too stupid to even understand that.