If you get zero percent APR, that is a pretty good reason to take out an 84 month loan.

but is this something you witness enough times to consider annoying, exactly?

Every 2-3 months or so I’ll get annoyed by how cluttered the fridge is and bring the trash can over and start liberally tossing shit into it.  If it turns out that underneath that clutter there is a bunch of spilled/dried-up food that will also annoy me, I’ll do a deeper clean.  

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Everything in the “Apologize” one is exactly right. It just seems like it means a lot when you are willing to demonstrate accountability, both by explaining why you’re doing the things you’re doing, and by apologizing when you’re wrong. I also think “Authority figures can be wrong” is a critical lesson for kids to…

It says personhood begins at conception! There is no objectively “right” point at which personhood begins (nor, incidentally, when exactly it ends, which is at least part of the reason there are laws against corpse desecration, and why we strive to honor instructions in wills, etc.). Have you defined personhood…

I guess I’m confused about what you’re arguing here or what you’re even urging us to do. Do you think we should engage with the “pro-life” argument on its own merit and without mischaracterizing it, or not? Because I don’t think “Well, my skin cells are also alive” is doing either, nor is it a very convincing argument…

As another person in recovery, I believe John Mulaney should do whatever helps him live a happy and fulfilling life, whatever that means to him. I’m not sure how it helps you stay sober to have people judging every personal choice you make in recovery and implying that any little personal misstep (none of which are…

This sucks, and feels so completely counterproductive. Going into recovery is, by definition, hard. And one of the things that I found hard about it was the feeling that people who knew the issues I had with drinking was basically having to publicly admit that I didn’t possess the control that most people possess, and…

Part of my argument is that “life” is a red herring introduced as a rhetorical place-holder for the religious concept of the soul.

Conceding meaning what? You said you would win the argument every time if you engaged with the argument that once an egg is fertilized, the result clump of cells is a human life. But that’s not a provable thing one way or another, so I’m not sure how you “win” that argument. If someone believes that an embryo or a…

Most of the work of what? If something is unfalsifiable, it takes it out of the realm of being an objectively verifiable fact (to the extent even that matters anymore) and into the realm of morality. That’s what unfalsifiability signals. I can’t objectively define for someone else what is a “human” life worthy of…

So a man rapes a woman, the woman gets pregnant, and terminates the pregnancy, and it’s the woman who deserves harsher punishment than the man?

I have no idea what you are talking about.  People don’t get arrested in the U.S. for having an opinion.

So you think an embryo/fetus is a human being worthy of protection of any other human life?

So you think if Person A rapes Person B, impregnating Person B, Person B should face harsher punishment (up to and including the death penalty!) than Person A?

If it was that simple to win the argument, it’d be won.  But I’m not sure how you “win” at convincing someone of an unfalisfiable, unprovable notion like “an embryo/fetus is a human life worth protecting the same as any other human life.”

“will get arrested”

yes