No, we can condone murder. We as a society condone murder all the time, based on circumstances. In this case, a child attempted numerous times to flee her attacker and was returned to his care. She notified responsible adults of her abuse and was not provided aid. She did all the supposedly reasonable things that we…
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Yeah. If she had really concentrated she could have used her Jedi powers to get the gun to fly out of his hands into hers and that way it would have been self defence. Clearly she didn’t think this through/ use her telekinesis abilities to full effect.
There’s actually some really interesting and gruesome feminist legal theory about self-defense laws. Basically it boils down to: self defense laws are made for someone defending themselves in a fight to the death that’s moving quickly and happening right at the time of the death or injury. Women’s violence, and the…
And unlike the “argument” when women shoot their abusive husbands kids can’t “just leave” If she ran away she’d be sent back.
This is part of the central moral question with regards to women and the law.
Affluenza kid then. Happy?
Trump is so inflexible in his thoughts and beliefs even when they turn out to be wrong. He still goes after people even through this happened almost thirty years ago. Jesus. He can’t let a thing go.
He’s saying that, from an objective legal perspective, she’s a slut and a liar and if she didn’t want to get raped she shouldn’t have been wearing whatever she was wearing and she shouldn’t have gone to a colleauge’s house and she shouldn’t have let any alcohol pass her lips and she shouldn’t have been a woman.
They’re not removing him. They’re going to “take very seriously” the investigation that is ongoing, and monitor him.
As an old white man, I never thought much about a “rape culture,” and I probably would have denied its existence. It just never really seemed prevalent to me. I would never have said that we didn’t have a racist culture, but somehow the rape connection just wasn’t there for me.
I’m still stunned from the moment Trump doubled down on the concept of turning our armed forces into global mercenaries “we defend them? Let them pay for it” to the point that Hillary felt the need to turn to the camera and reassure other countries that no, contrary to what Orange Cheeto just said, the US will uphold…
super hella fragile racist extra #Bragadocious
So far, that line and Tyrion Lannister’s “That’s what I do - I drink and I know things” are neck-and-neck in the running for my Motto of the Year competition.
Because the thought of suffering and not being in control is paralyzing to most Americans. Have us go to a place where there’s no cell service and we start freaking out.
I’d like to hear a little more about that soothing opium. Sounds soothing.
Literally whacking moles does actually make me feel better.
This is my favorite thing you’ve written on the Concourse since the Great Reshuffling. I always find it intriguing that people who may actually be killed (NYC commuters, CDC employees) are some of the people least likely to be scared into a puddle by Islamic Terrorism, while Senators and Congressman who represent…
Nope. Not buying it. Better we live our lives in a constant state of panic, lashing out at strangers, constantly whacking moles. I mean, we don’t want the terrorist to win, right?