I can't believe how many people are tripping over themselves to clutch their pearls because charity isn't being done for the Right Reasons.

Wait, so if they never gave out the jackets, whats the problem again?

So what makes you think that homeless people don't have the agency to reject the jackets if they feel they're being made fun of? Do you think they enjoy being treated like idiots?

So how about using them as props for your faux-outrage-fueled social justice crusade, by claiming to speak for them? I guess that's ok, though.

I agree, the #1 problem with the world is people making jokes.

The idea that they care about being made fun of more than their survival is pretty insulting, IMO.

So we're supposed to think that homeless people care more about whether they're the butt of some dumb joke than their survival? And we're the delusional ones?! Give me a break.

Yeah, there are machines that map brain waves, but there's no way to know anything about what those brain waves correspond to in terms of the subject's consciousness without straight up asking them. Once you've asked enough people, you can get a good idea, but you can't get anywhere without asking.

By your standards, most psychology research isn't actually research and instead amounts to glorified surveys. There's no way to measure this kind of stuff without actually asking people, and that's as good as we're gonna get until we invent machines that can read minds.

It's not the same as arbitrarily assigning negative characteristics to certain groups as with your nigger example. Retarded people are defined by their stupidity, so it makes perfect sense to describe something that exhibits stupidity as retarded.

Seriously though, there are certain traits/actions we deem childish because they are often exhibited by children. Similarly, there are certain traits/actions we deem retarded, because they're fucking stupid.

Right. Children act childishly, retards act retardedly. I see no reason why one of these should acceptable and the other shouldn't.

I thought they busted this on Myth Busters. The thing about the flammable paint, anyway.

No one on this site has a sense of humor it seems...

Way to assume that all decrepit 80 year olds are miserable, you ageist bigot!

Yeah, how dare anyone question that an animal has a fully formed human brain and is trying to talk to us?! Only an ignorant bigot would insult an animal's intelligence by assuming that its vaguely speech-like vocalizations are just imitation!

"Or better yet get off your ass and do something to make the world better like our soldiers and military families do."

And keep defending fucking mass murder because "the other guys are worse!!!"

So you honestly think that those IEDs aren't placed there to inflict harm on the American occupiers? You think they're there to punish their own? God, you're dumb. In case it isn't crystal clear, those IEDs were placed to hit our troops. Just because we save some of their own from collateral damage doesn't magically…

I have nothing against helping the people we're fucking at the same time. It's when we pretend that we didn't help cause their problem while pretending to be benevolent saviors. It's like if I smashed all the windows in your house them cheerfully offered to fix all your windows, that doesn't make me a good guy (it…