Maybe your definition of anecdote is different from Merriam-Websters, but that’s literally what your reply—“I know plenty of people...”—was: a narrative from your own experience.  But let’s not get hung up on that.

I don’t think FGJustice justified homicides at all. Moreover, I’m not convinced everyone in Aaron’s orbit was altruistically out to help him. Urban Meyer was more interested in winning championships and raking in dough than disciplining players, in line with both UF’s adminstration and the NCAA. If any of those…

I don’t think we’re too far off in agreement. For starters (and I said this elsewhere): I’m not excusing AH’s actions. He’s the murderer, not society, and was justly facing punishment for crimes against his victims.

You mention personal anecdotes as if they are proof of anything, and top it off with a meaningless guarantee.

So maybe, MAYBE the failure is in the fact that we take young boys and teach them to be endlessly aggressive, and beat a level of violent competition and unwillingness to compromise or lose into them.

Yes, society failed him. He clearly needed help, and likely never got it. Why? Because he was just a football player. I’m betting he was basically treated like a tool throughout his life. He was just something for coaches to use to score wins. It’s a similar vein to soldiers suffering from PTSD - tossed and forgotten…

Responding because you were actually civil, which is a higher bar than most here seem able to clear: I’m not excusing his actions. And while his father’s death surely affected him deeply, it is certainly not why he killed 3 people.

I didn’t say that, nor did FGJustice. But god forbid you take the time to comprehend the things we did say.

Holy shit, commenters are putting you on blast and I think it’s completely undeserved.

Say what you will about Drogba’s theatric villainy on the pitch, but off it he seems a genuinely good individual. How that fits into this Phoenix FC thing I don’t know, except to say I hope Phoenix realizes he’s an asset to their community.

Appreciate the heads-up but these seem a poor deal compared to Tervis Tumblers which are priced nearly the same, come in a crazy variety of designs/sizes, and come with a damn lifetime guarantee.

Appreciate the heads-up but these seem a poor deal compared to Tervis Tumblers which are priced nearly the same,…

Solid points. My rationale for the MVP vote I don’t have is this: in 30 years, who will we remember for the 2016/17 season? It won’t be Harden; as great as his regular season’s been, his postseason will inevitably be a disappointment by comparison since the Rockets are not winning the title. It won’t be Leonard,…

“It’s hard to find Americans to want to do these jobs,” Whitley told Charlottesville’s NBC29, explaining,“It’s not unskilled labor. It’s highly-skilled labor, but it’s manual labor.”

I haven’t seen anyone explain the logistics of enforcement on this. A traveler from, say, Riyadh to NYC presumably goes through a security checkpoint at Riyadh International Airport. Is the security checkpoint guy in Saudi Arabia truly obligated to a directive from the US? Is there some reciprocity there on such…

Meh, it’s not what I’d call terrible. Perhaps mildly risky, but that’s not a particularly large gator and they’re skittish shits as a general rule. They don’t like picking fights on land with things that are roughly their own size.

+1 Chinatown

“How about a nice, greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?”

Let’s summarize what happened here: a wildly rich Youtuber came up with a humdinger of a idea in which he tested the boundaries of how far poor-as-shit 2nd worlders will go for a pittance of a payment. Ignore the fact that they may not even understand the meaning of what they’re holding up: the more offensive, the…

I like this theory, but don’t think the timelines can realistically match up. Kylo is perhaps 30 years old? Rey is 19, or so we’ve been told. If we assume she was abandoned on Jakku at the age of 5-7 or so, it would mean Kylo went full-douchebag—and was strong enough to overcome Luke’s guidance and/or retaliation—at…

Whilst I can sympathatize with their general dislike of HRC—I’m by no means a big fan, though much of the scorn is hyperbolic—the mental gymnastics these simpletons (and that’s what they are, every one of them) utilized to justify their vote for Cheeto Jesus are staggering beyond belief.