I think there’s even a revenue amount buried in the tax code that defines the distinction between a hobby and a business for the purpose of deducting expenses. Going from memory, I think a few years back it was $4000 or $4500 per year. Enough that someone couldn’t deduct a computer as a business expense because they…
abidabi, THIEF OF JOY
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I mean, flaunting her lifestyle is her job. You may not like it or find it interesting. But millions of people adore it and view her posts and that’s how she gets paid. It’s like saying the Queen is asking for a home invasion by showing off her gigantic castles all over the country. It’s...what she does.
I don’t find it hard at all to feel sorry for someone who is robbed, regardless of their station in life. Kim Kardashian is a human being who was tied up and robbed at gunpoint. It’s shocking to me that anyone finds it hard to feel sorry for her.
“YouTube and Twitch have blurred the lines between business and hobby and then kicked some sand atop those blurred lines. At what precise point does social media turn from a hobby into a business?”
They meant nothing, really. At the end of the day the election results were driven mostly by: (1) James Comey, and (2) the hacks at the New York Times and Associated Press who spent a year (well, 20 years in the NYT’s case) desperately trying to drag Hillary’s reputation through the mud through non-stories (we don’t…
Yeah that’s why I’m really against the death penalty. The risk of innocent lives be taken. That’s a scary thought
I don’t believe in the death penalty for a number of reasons. In this instance we can add that I want him to live a long life knowing he was unsuccessful in his attempt to become a martyr for his race war. Killing him gives him what he wants, and I am petty and do not want him to have this thing.
And yet, I still don’t believe that the taking of another human life improves our society in any way.
It’s not mercy. It’s the cold and measured opinion that we do ourselves no good by taking his life, when we have the option of locking him away from the rest of society forever.
More practically, the second the death penalty becomes possible, it becomes /inevitable/ that an innocent person will be executed.
Again, though, at this point it isn’t really even about him. It’s about whether we are the type of society that condones murder, as long as it’s done in a controlled setting to the “right” person. It’s about the intentional taking of a life, when we have other methods that will remove that person from our society. If…
The amount of money its will cost us just to keep him locked could be better spent else where.
Put him down and make him a martyr. I would say that the best thing to do is segregate him as fully as possible from society without rising to the level of torture, a la solitary in the US. That takes him out of our world without forcing us to take a life.
I would argue from a position that the intentional taking of a life is immoral in all cases that are not to prevent said life from taking innocent lives. By that rubric, the death penalty is immoral in all cases.
There are people in the United States who (rightfully) respond with shock and horror at regimes sanctioning the beheading of criminals: this seems so far beyond the pale.
It’s not a lack of courage to kill them. It’s a moral decision that we should not make ourselves murderers in response to murder. We should segregate them away from society for the rest of their natural life, but I do not think that taking another human life is ethical under any circumstances other than to save my own…
Bullshit. The death penalty cannot possibly exist and be applied in a fair, consistent, and fully accurate manner on a systemic basis. As long as it is allowed to exist, it will be flawed, and as long as it is flawed, it is unacceptable. Recognizing that and saying “No, not him either” doesn’t minimize anything, as…
That’s the problem. Everybody will always have an exception.
Well put, I came here to say the same thing.