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You need to be close to morbidly obese for your weight to have an appreciable effect on this nebulous "wear and tear" thing. Lebron was never anywhere near that so the chances this makes any difference is close to zero.

The story exposes a false premise we have all been living under in modern society Clearly the disagreement is between the "Never beat a woman" camp and the "I thought we were all the same" camp. Clearly both are wrong or at least incomplete A) You shouldn't beat ANYONE... not just women B) We are not all the same.

you're missing the point. This is about fairness not about what you can survive on. Most of us have an intuitive sense of what is fair. If your value is 75m you want to get 75m not because your couldn't survive with 1m but because it wouldn't be fair if you left 74m on the table for someone who doesn't deserve it.…

no you wouldn't.

Accepting there are some inherent differences that aren't obvious at birth leads to the possibility that there are other inherent differences which some people erroneously think undermines the case for equal treatment. It doesn't, if we found out today that women were less likely to want to be Physicists it wouldn't…

oh yeah next week there is a parade in their honor.

I very much doubt this. I grew up in a west african country and I've spent some time in some of the most remote places in Nigeria. I am pretty sure there isn't a corner of the continent were motorcycles and gasoline can shipped in but no one ever thought about western processed foods. It would take a heroic lack of…

nothing makes a grown man cry like a screen grab of a grown man crying.

actually Occam's Razor doesn't say that. A random sampling of the country will not find anything close to a majority with the opinion he is being accused of, so the base rates start off against that conclusion. Now consider he's been in the media for a while now, his livelihood depends on not having said opinion and…

clearly his case is not very articulate but chances are he meant my version of the story and not the one being attributed to him. I mean how much could someone want to lose their job to excuse domestic abuse. Do you ready think he believes there is an undercurrent of domestic abuse support in the country that he…

if you believe all actions are equally likely to result in an act that no one justifies then you're being quite unreasonable.

no the injury is not to the car. It is completely incoherent to talk about injury to a car that is why we don't do that.

the reason your comment is completely useless is because it is built on some false premises. There are two separate issues being discussed. The perpetrator is 100% culpable for the crime itself. However if we presuppose that we live in a world were crime will be committed by unsavory people and there is any amount…

Help yourself to a dictionary and look up analogies after you've done so explain which element of the analogy is problematic.

So domestic violence is only a problem if you are famous and it affects someone else's brand. OK got it

What the fuck are you talking about? If agency was a relevant issue here no one would be assaulting anyone since they could simply point out that they prefer not to be assaulted but obviously the issue is that agency is being ignored. My analogy does not deny agency because there is little agency involved in being…

What if we we're done attending to the fact that the perpetrator did something wrong such that it cannot benefit from any further attention. Is it ever okay to make reasonable suggestions that will help the victim in the future? We judge the character of the people we choose to get into romantic relationships or…