It was a reference to your “RELIGION IS TEH PATRIARKKKY!!!” comment. You sound like a 110 iq freshman atheist who thinks they have it all figured out. Let me guess, you just fuckin’ love science and Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of your heroes?

So? Are your beliefs so fragile that you can’t handle someone telling you they think they’re wrong? A huge part of substantive discussion and debate in every context involves trying to bring people around to your beliefs. Why is that OK if we’re talking about current events, sports, business, or anything else, but not…

Also, I am charming. I was afraid that wouldn’t come through in my short comment, but I’m glad to see that it did.

Go write a poem about it, hippy.

I’ve never understood the animosity towards proselytizing. What’s wrong with talking openly about your beliefs? If you don’t like what someone else is saying, nobody’s forcing you to listen.

It’s simplistic, naive comments like this that help alleviate my nostalgia for my college days.

What does immutability have to do with it? As long as somebody isn’t hurting anybody else, they shouldn’t have to hide any aspect of who they are, whether it’s immutable or not.

What’s wrong with being openly religious? Somehow, I feel like you’d have a problem with someone saying “Fine, be gay but keep it to yourself please.”

Screw you, you boot-licking statist.

Well, based on your history of articles and the reasoning in this one, I think the “stupid” part is a fair assessment. But I will agree that the c-word was over the line.

Also, the arguments against the wage gap are only condescending and offensive if you are the type of person who is offended by people disagreeing with you. Basically, you’re saying, “I believe X, and all arguments against X are offensive because believing not-X is offensive.”

Anyway, the never-ending griping about…

Yes, before you try to change society to solve a problem you bear the burden of proving that the problem exists. Why is that controversial?

Fails to account for hours worked and years of continuous employment. Women are more likely to take years off and on average, they work about 2/hrs per week less than men. You have to look at all the confounding variables. This infographic picks two (which even the infographic shows contribute to the gender pay gap).

ASTEROID TO DESTROY EARTH: WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT

Helpful reminder: fraud is illegal in most capitalist societies. True, it may be hard to detect and/or punish, but fraud is no more a necessary attribute of capitalism than starvation is of socialism.

You’re not being creative enough. Printed-on RFID chips will soon be able to ensure that every items that goes out the door is paid for, and robots with the dexterity to organize items on shelves are not far away.

Again with the reading comp. Honestly, I hesitate to even reply because your previous posts suggest you’re incapable of comprehending the responses, but I guess it’s worth one more try. I said “formal, organized business sector,” not “workforce.” A huge portion of Indians are self-employed, so it’s entirely possible…

Get better at reading comp. The maternity leave and backwater hellhole comments were about India.

First, my list wasn’t meant to be exhaustive. Second, the standard under US law is most decidedly not a simple utilitarian calculation. The government has a high bar to meet before it can regulate speech. Third, even transparency requirements are a threat to speech. There’s a reason our founders wrote under…

I’m guessing you’re not a lawyer. Words (e.g., “criminal”) have meanings. Also, it’s in no way hypocritical (or inconsistent) to say both that (a) you’re not allowed to kill someone and (b) you have no right to force me to pay for their benefit.