I think your reply was intended for somebody else. If not, thanks for the lecture?

If you're interested in background singers and their unusual careers and niche (super-duper talents who are not well-known), there's supposed to be a great documentary called 20 Feet From Stardom.

Don't you think it's just as inflammatory and misleading to call the other side "anti-choice" as it is for them to mischaracterize the pro-choice side as "pro-abortion?"

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SA is probably considered small market because it's only the 25th largest MSA in the country.

And when you go out to work with your colleagues, or take somebody on a date, are they very impressed by your progressive views on tipping? I imagine people must really respect how principled you are, and are not at all put off by what a cheap, rationalizing, schmuck you are.

What was the name of that book?

Along with beards, fixies and irony, hipsters are well known for their love of highlighters, ice cream scoops and buckets.

Do you have Aspergers Syndrome? Serious question.

I've been searching all over the place, and can't find any explanation of how the experiment was set up.

As I just said to another commenter, thanks for the taking the time to write this.

Thanks for the taking the time to write this.

I've found that comments that start with "so you're saying" or "so, by your logic" always proceed to either distort the original argument, or project all sorts of stuff onto it. Your comment is no different.

I agree.

I'm being serious.

Can you describe the distinction, then? Because to me, the situations are almost wholly analogous.*

Maybe you meant to respond to somebody else, because I certainly didn't say a giraffe is more important than a cow, not did I even imply it. In fact, if you scroll down, I explicitly state in another comment that a giraffe life = a cow life.

That's a good question.

That's fine, although I certainly never said "slaughtering a cow for food is a-okay while slaughtering a giraffe is an inhumane tragedy." It's a lot more complex than that.

I could have been more specific with my original argument, which should have read,