Even if it's not an addiction I think all people should be afforded some comfort and pleasure, if they choose that to be a cigarette let them.

Could it be because social programs offer a leg up and opportunity for people to improve conditions rather than affording America the potential to blow up more brown people?

Again, the existence of bias doesn't mean his conclusion is wrong. Because it isn't. Hydrogen has a part to play(long haul/trucking) but the average runabout is NOT where we will see it, the necessity for distribution and provisioning stations just makes the adoption of hydrogen a non-starter.

What I'm selling? All I'm saying is that children have some fucking rights and parents shouldn't be allowed to modify their bodies without permission.

Why the fuck does actual equal rights scare you so much?

We got some basics in health class(mandatory portion of physical education) but like your school bio was elective.

You would think that preparing students to handle an object we all possess would be more valuable to us.

I think it's also fair to state that most people are wildly uninformed about the human body.

Do most students not get some amount of anatomy in highschool, either through biology classes or health? Seriously people

Sounds reasonable to me :) That's a fairly common failing in most media unfortunately

Broken people are complex too. It doesn't absolve them of any responsibility but ignoring the realities of what lead people to their biases and bad ideas doesn't make it go away

Sounds about right

How long is that again?

That's exactly it. Many people wind up somewhat bashful.

There's nothing I love more than drowning an asshole in kindness

Agreed, working in customer service(though in fast food not full service) really changed my outlook on the service industry and has made me a better customer. I judge the poor behaviours more heavily but I also appreciate the good ones even more

Customer service isn't so bad, I never wanted to do it(fast food) but then quickly realized that it's actually kind of awesome.

Just remember that no matter how grumpy someone is, MOST people will respond to friendly service and can be shamed into good behaviour by just not giving in to the snark. Seriously, snark just…

It's bullshit for someone to take the stance that you can care about many things, some of which are important some of which are not?

You people crack me up. Stop worrying about abortion, there are countries where women can't even vote. Stop caring about violence against trans people, there are places where people are…

Being worried of escalation makes a lot of sense, but I would urge you to reconsider the bit about trying to not validate behaviour, I would hazard to guess that this guy either thinks his behaviour is acceptable or possibly has no self awareness and is not realizing how creepy he is coming off.

One way or the other…

You shouldn't need to alter your commute. Full stop.

Have you ever engaged with this person to tell them to cut it out? Or are you concerned that if you do that it will escalate things? Or have you already tried and found that he hasn't altered his behaviours at all?

Ask my friends, my family and anyone else who needs to hear my rants. I complain about an awful lot of things that I think are wrong today. Circumcision is usually not even on my radar, I'm really of the mind that if we can get more sane and sensible laws in place around what sort of freedoms bodily autonomy grants…

so tired of this old chestnut, it's right up there with women not being understandable by people possessing a penis

Why should I care about that woman suffering from domestic abuse? There are people starving in Africa!!

Thinking and talking about one ill in the world does not detract from the others. Besides which this is an issue of body autonomy which is also at the core of the debate over abortion, birth control and such.

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I would pin a portion of it as well to the political environment that is the US. It's so heavily partisan that things (like this) that should be free of political baggage are just...not.