And if they keep it to only public figures, I think they’ll still find that a lot of parishioners are going to drop them for another denomination because they’re exhausted of the sanctimony and hypocrisy.

The church is dead set on making itself completely irrelevant.

I think it’s pretty important that states be able to establish guidelines for teachers. For example, mandating that biology classes teach the theory of evolution and that they not teach creationism/“intelligent design”. But I agree that this seems different, since the legislature seems to be demanding that teachers…

Next, the Jeffrey Dahmer museum is going to have an actor come in an talk about how unfair it is that people wouldn’t let him eat the delicious flesh of little boys. And the MRA museum will talk about how unreasonable it is that husbands aren’t allowed to rape their wives anymore.

I did the same thing, and my reaction was “well actually, that seems excessive”.

lol, yes, thanks. I just didn’t read it carefully enough.

Dereliction of duty? This sounds like assault.

That’s it, they think the government’s job is to ensure a supply of people desperate enough to work for whatever they can get.

In Soviet Russia, police catch criminal for you.

It’s not just that White people decided to take Texas from Mexico, one of their motivations was to make it legal to hold slaves. The desire to hold people in slavery is absolutely fundamental to the story of Texas, and it needs to be understood.

I mean, I think their own shitty perspectives were what opened them up to “harassment and wide-spread hate”. Improving the lives of people working in the construction industry is a great thing, but making life worse for women spending time in public isn’t the way to do it.

Boston police and the police union also ignored/covered up for a cop/union president who had raped children. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ex-boston-police-union-pres-charged-with-raping-4-more-children/2183771/. Apparently those bad apples have spoiled the barrel.

I’m familiar with the replication crisis, but I didn’t apply the key insight that a lot of published results, especially the sexiest, most exciting ones, turn out to be flukes. I guess we’ll never know for sure with this one, since I can’t imagine someone would get approval to run this sort of study. But the critiques…

Well damn, I should have read through it more carefully. Thanks for sharing.

There’s at least some reason to think that it’s nothing special about the people who seek out those roles, it’s the role that corrupts the person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment.

Seriously, it’s not like the problem is the physical building. It’s either with the sort of person that wants to work in a prison, or what working in a prison does to a person, or how the institution and culture fail to protect the inmates, but it’s hard to imagine that just relocating the prison to a new building is…

Right, and they’re not even in the majority. I would like to live in a country where laws supported by a majority of Americans (or their representatives) get passed, even if an obstructionist minority doesn’t like it.

I think in any university there’s a huge power imbalance between the professors and the students, but this is just absurd. And my understanding is that he’s faced almost no professional or personal consequences.

Given the boxers involved, everyone losing is the best outcome by far.

I think you’ve cracked it, I don’t see how there could possibly be another expanation.