People are petty. Any god they can imagine will likewise be constrained by their own scope of understanding. Petty people get petty gods.

Yes, but I think they also included the men. That's my reading. Unless the women are only giving birth to females.

Can we boil this down to a snappy comeback? Because reading this entire tl;dr statement will never work in a real life situation. (Of course I read it, but it lacks a certain something for the average playground audience.)

Again, you're missing the point. Did I say "approved" violence? No. There is a point in every civil human's life where the thought process occurs: If I hurt someone else or anger them enough, they may react with violence and I myself may be hurt. Therefor, perhaps I should not do X because Y may happen. This is a…

I didn't say they should be responded to with violence, I said they should fear violence. If the worst thing I can think of is physical pain, and I know that no matter what I do, that will never happen to me, how do you discipline certain types of personalities? Fear of consequences is what helps keeps civilization…

What do you call it if I force you to clean up my unsanitary soiled clothes when I could have clearly controlled myself? What kind of abuse is that?

Wow, he/she must have truly been awful to the other children to warrant that response from them. Think about it, how bad would one child have to torment others before they came to this action? And, I'm curious, did it work? I mean, they hurt him, so that part worked, but did it work in that long term for them? Did the…

I'm trying to wrap my head around your sentence that "even bullies should be assured they're safe from violence." Bullies threaten violence or impart violence to others. That's what they do. Sometimes it seems to be the only language they speak (and thus, the problem, of course). Fear of violence is what keeps most…

I can't think about this without remembering my favorite moment in one of my Western Civ (?) classes, where we had to read a copy of the rules from some medieval monastery. There were A LOT of rules pertaining to the things thou shalt not fornicate with (nuns, goats, other monks, the Abbess, the donkey, etc.) and…

When the press has truly fucked up and is then faced with a viable libel suit, (as compared to someone just angry that they got called on their shit, but not actually, you know, LIED about) this is probably step one in the defense.

Ahaha... Last night I was watching Intolerable Cruelty on tv, and there's that scene where the guy on the stand gets attacked by the defendant, who he has just made to look like an idiot, and the judge is like, "I'm going to allow it."

As a teen girl, I loved Tomb Raider. I loved playing the games, figuring out the secrets, killing the bad guys, and being a cool badass. I was ok with the fact that she was unrealistically proportioned, etc., but I found I couldn't play Tomb Raider around male friends because of the combination of her looks and the…

" ... a saboteur amongst Mittens' staffers."

No. I'm still trying to picture how that works in my head.

Oh, I can tell you what they'll be doing. They'll be too busy having sex and stealing other people's stuff to be bored for long. That's what all the kids apparently do in my neck of the woods when they're bored in the summer. Look for the bumper crop of underage pregnancies in a few months, along with the spike in…

The correct answer to that statement is, "But I do know, and so the men they share their culture with. Since the men think they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, it looks like I'm going to have to be the one to try and make improvements. What's your excuse?"

I would like to point out that, as a 27-year-old adult in the U.S.A., her family cannot force her to do jack shit. She and she alone continues to allow the oppression, and oppresses herself more than they can at this point. Of course there would be consequences if she stepped outside of her family's good graces, but…

Given the Well Known Fact that all the theater people have teh gay, and therefor unlikely to be having unplanned pregnancies themselves, this seems like a perfect solution.

One of my earliest memories - I couldn't have been older than 3 because of where we were - is my mother telling my father, "Some days I just want to get in the car and drive away." She loves me, and they're still together, but, I never once had the delusion that she didn't sacrifice a lot of herself for me. By choice,…

lolololol I call lots of things "alive" but only one thing do I call "human." Guess which gets to live in my uterus without my consent? Ok, trick question, answer is neither.