The law deals with "mens rea": a guilty mind. To be guilt of Murder One, you had to have malice aforethought, not just the heat of the moment. If you're asking if Wilson had a guilty racist mind, he most likely didn't in legal terms. That's the LEGAL questions.

We could make up a different legal standard, like "did…

of course not: its a political language choice.

so, is there a pic where it is right next to an object of known size, or just the likely foreshortened hand way in the back?

Neither is the young man in the article. He has an attraction he feels is completely natural to him that he can't change. Its not substantively different from an orientation. His orientation necessitates that fulfilling it is criminal, which is why we use different semantic terms, but substantively they are more…

au contraire

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1796

seems like a mere semantic difference.

Those track police reports. What percentage of public anonymous accusations are false.

"the ancient Greeks did not conceive of sexual orientation in the way we do now"

Kirk "married to her ship" will take on new meaning, and new civilization.

lived experience, but also a matter of the polis. We all live in the polis and find ourselves variously validated and invalidated by it. Sometimes the polis is offended. This hits especially when the norms of the polis, based on what is common, are said to be inherently offensive.

Sexual arousal isn't simple.

I'm not sure turning over cases that prosecutors don't consider provable to 12 people who will need to conclude that the prosecutions case is proved beyond a reasonable doubt is a good idea. Are you just expecing jurors to have a lower standard of proof in their heads than "reasnable doubt"? Do you want them to think…

"The First Lady is saying, 'You, Miss Anne, are going to have to clean your own house because I will be caring for my own' and instead of agreeing that the public sphere is necessarily more important than Sasha and Malia, "

Map of racist attitudes

It bothers me that robo-eve is in lingeree in that scene.

well, if we built it we'll probably feel pretty good about it, since we either transcended ourselves or figured out how to be all those happy things.

Exactly. They're programmed to serve, and have restraining bolts if they get too uppity. But what's exactly wrong with that? They seem completely happy, and utility is maximized.

Then there are the temples for aborted babies. sad but true.

I think its becoming increasingly clear (see Athens Ohio) that binge drinking means you will end up doing stuff you regret and maybe don't know WHAT happened because you have no memories, but you're not stone cold drunk passed out.

What if one believes women are people too, but you have no real problem with some people being subservient, less powerful, more wealthy than, or have widely different given expectations than others even irrespective of gender.