As somebody who sent a received tons of nudes when I was in highschool, I don’t get the big deal.

So what your saying is that you have no problem with receiving or sending nude pictures of minors?

The more clothes you have on, the less soul you lose. It’s just math.

Generally it’s accepted (ethically and often legally) that teens can consent to sexual activity with similar aged peers. Just not with adults or with much older teens (ie 13 and 17 year olds).

Yeah, I’m kinda not sure how the school can be expected to be responsible for kids when they’re not at school. Not that they weren’t trading pictures at school, but how many kids were taking nude pictures on school grounds to begin with?

By the time my 1 year old needs a cell phone, the brainwashing will have already set in and she will truly believe that naked selfies steal your soul just like I planned.

I don’t really see how the school is responsible here. In my opinion shit that kids get into online and on their phones is the parents jurisdiction. I teach in primary school and after umpteen fights started on Facebook (mostly involving 6th grade girls) we sent letters to the parents that the school would no longer…

I don’t know, I kind of like that they used the term “children.” Because that’s what they are. I feel like calling them “desirable teens” or “desirable young adults” would have made it seem like less of a problem.

A Facebook post from the excellent Testy Copy Editors blog:

Y’know, I want to see documentation from John Hopkins saying Carson really did go there. Hell, I want to see documentation from the ROTC at Carson’s high school saying Carson really took part. At this point, no one should take Carson’s word for anything he says.

In his defense, people can be very smart and idiots at the same time. Common sense would tell you that it isn’t possible but that’s mostly because what these people who are idiots lack is general common sense.

Yeah it’s a well known bias, I forget the name of the fallacy, but it’s common for people to over estimated the value of an expert’s opinion when they’re are speaking on matters outside of their expertise. The experts themselves may or may not suffer from it. Obviously Steve Jobs had this problem and tried to heal his…

Exactly. People saying Carson is an idiot are missing the point. He knows precisely what he’s doing. He’s catering to low information voters.

I can understand wanting to embelish, but why would anyone lie about something that can be proven false with quick phone call?

“If he actually was an idiot Johns Hopkins wouldn’t have let him cut people’s heads open.”

The working theory seems to be that highly talented doctors often get a hugely inflated opinion of themselves and their intellect and talent because they’re constantly treated like rock stars in their field. So someone like…

Carson’s whole story shows a complete ignorance of how the military academies work. He comes off like that one guy at the end of the bar going on and on about how he was a Navy SEAL and a Green Beret and in Mossad all at the same time.

Are you accusing her of being older than Thomas Jefferson? You conservatives who come to DS in the grays have to be some of the dumbest people on Earth.

Isn’t West Point free for everyone? How would you even get a full scholarship?

My true story: I was once at a banquet where Bill Clinton gave a speech. It was a huge hotel ballroom. I think, at one point, as Secret Service was escorting him into the room, I may have been as close as 60 or 70 feet from him. He gave a nice speech and left.

In Ben Carson’s defense, he IS an idiot.