I guess we have different life experiences, because I’ve actually never had someone complain to me about harming themselves in a firearms accident or their parachute malfunctioning. How often would you estimate this happens to you?

So the answer to my question is...?

Should people do anything that could be dangerous if not performed with care?

But “wanted” definitely might be the right word. This may come as a shock to you, but there are young people, both men and women, who actually make an effort to attract the attentions, sometimes even physical attentions, of billionaires.

So because you know a lot of terrible people, no one else should care about it.

He wasn’t fired, he resigned. But yes, I think that in the context of a moralistic public policy organization, hypocrisy is pretty damn relevant.

If an organization lobbies and advocates for public policy, then the public gets to care who they are and what they are doing.

Nope, I’m definitely not saying can’t, I’m saying that it’s pretty goddamn outrageous that he made his living the way he did given his past.

They are an organization that lobbies for moralistic legal policy. Are you really surprised that they don’t want Duggar working for them any more now that his deeds are public knowledge?

We’re not disagreeing because you’re saying something that isn’t being argued. No one is saying that people can’t learn from their actions as a child.

You’re badly missing the point. Josh Duggar made a living at the Family Research Council advocating for moralistic social policy which, among other things, focused on treating gay people as deviant sexual predators. Do you recognize the disconnect there?

People like Peterson and Rice are of course entitled to due process in the legal context, but their employer has every right to give them the boot for what they did. They are entertainers who work for an entertainment company which receives enormous public subsidy. Taking wholly understandable public opinion into…

You’re ignoring the context. Josh Duggar was an executive director at the Family Research Council, not a manager of a Jiffy Lube.

Do you know what the Family Research Council is?

We aren’t talking about a guy who is being fired from his job as an accountant, we’re talking about a guy who was executive director of the Family Research Council.

Oh, please. If you literally make your living being a moralistic scold, you don’t get a pass for this kind of thing.

The bigger point is ridiculous in this context. Josh Duggar was an executive director at the Family Research Council, which among other things is a virulently anti-gay organization that argues gay people are sexual predators who are after our children. While that argument is odious enough on its own, Josh Duggar…

Wait, you think that Cain should be entitled to the “opinion” that climate change isn’t real*, but you don’t think Deadspin should be entitled to the opinion that Cain is an ignoramus?

That’s cute how you pretended the question of how to respond to climate change is the same as whether climate change is actually happening.

Obviously you’re not a golfer.