After reading this I am reminded of the old adage:

Good point. At the end of the day, she still has more money and power than pretty much all of those people in that room will ever have.

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While United didn’t do a great job with the PR side of things, you all do realize that is wasn’t United who actually did any of that, right? Security who hurt the man and did terrible things wasn’t United, baggage handlers aren’t all United (many are airport employees)?

This is where things get more complex that I was trying to get at. Going by the standard should be in the best interest of the child, unfairly discriminating against allowing LGBT people to adopt does not seem to affect that.

Good thoughts that lead to some interesting things to think about. A child being involved does complicate things, in many ways much more intricate than just sexual orientation and identity of potential parents. I assume that if the child is old enough (i.e., not an infant) it has some say as to if the go to a…

As much as I hate bigots and people living in the stone age on this issue, I actually don’t know what to think about this decision. Discrimination is awful, but at what point does discrimination of discrimination cross the line? A lot of discrimination is outright terrible and bad and cannot be tolerated. But at…

Well, since you know my aunt so well......

How is this the problem of the defendants? What is the argument for their liability? The article didn’t really explain that, which should be a basic thing the research and dumb down for the article skimming populous.

Headline: “United accuses man of crime literally because of the color of his skin.”

Hey, remember that time that guy tried to masquarade as a woman and claimed to be trans-gender once his flimsy cover story was blown? Ha! what a dope! And to think he even changed his name and everything. Ha! He must be crazy. And a misogynist.

The most offensive thing I read in your description was “trigger warning.” Seriously that has got to stop. It has become such douchey over touchy-feely thing to say.

Wait, how does this sexualize children? Did I miss something?

Well, in the example I meant both people came to the conclusion they liked each other. Not one and not the other - hence they both consent. And I think that is a much larger step away from “but I thought she wanted it” as a lame after-the-fact excuse from someone being heinous.

Uh, I did. I know it’s your word against mine, but yeah, I did. I was just trying to have an honest and open discussion about if there is consideration for degrees of monstrosity in these sorts of things, but if you all want to just fly off the handle and take it to extremes and not be open to it, just like the…

ummmmm.... no. Not the “EXACT” position at all. Wow. And apologies for not taking the time to list every single type of rape such as drugged or unconscious victims that I find similarly deplorable and punishable as physical assaults. And, FYI - I served on a jury where we proudly sentenced a rapist whose victim did…

Yes, but it is no where near the same class as things like physically forcing yourself on someone or threatening their well being. “What? You told her you went to Harvard and had a job on Wall Street when you are really a bike messenger?? Alright, off to the bin with the physically assaulting rapists for you. Have…

It is a fine line. We need to get enough encouragement programs at a young age to show them they are “allowed” to develop those skills and get in those fields so they then build the CVs to be qualified for non-quota jobs.

Yeah, and usually when you “don’t know enough” aren’t you usually extra careful due to that? Like when I do electrical work, I don’t look at a line and say, “well, I don’t know enough to tell if that line is hot or not, so I’m ok to touch it.” Or, “It’s a blind curve so I don’t know enough about oncoming traffic, so…

I work as a design engineer and see this all the freakin’ time. I designed a highly complex liquid dispensing system with 300+ parts to be used by uneducated, untrained consumers. No one batted an eye or mentioned the high precision regulator at the center of the beast that regulated 1000 psi down to 12. But we…