But it’s still safer than leaving your drink with the guy! Why is this even a discussion?!

It’s a win-win. You can continue to avoid developing any kind of empathy, and she can avoid you.

Even after reading this story, you still think it’s her obligation not to hurt your feelings, not yours to have some compassion for the risk she’s facing. Awesome.

How small are they making bladders these days? Pee when you get to the bar, then order your drink. If you have to pee again within an hour, see a urologist.

Because it’s not a good solution. Instead of having a hissy, just accept that your idea wasn’t that good, and that the better solution is simply to finish your drink before leaving the table, or take it with you.

Oh, you’re right. Still, maybe she should correct her own error before busting out the “sic” in all caps.

Well, especially when there’s a pretty egregious grammatical error in the post from Lutkin. “Student’s who were sexually assaulted”? Grammarian, sic thyself.

Great to see people in the comments essentially writing off anyone who doesn’t agree with their politics from the moment they exit the womb. Purity forever! Please don’t bother to wonder what keeps the Left from gaining any traction in this country — it’s you.

Hey, congratulations on your great strategy of arguing with people about stuff you haven’t even read. This is definitely the way forward to a better world.

Well, I can’t imagine voting for Romney, and honestly I wouldn’t have voted for Weld had he not been running against Silber, whose best pal Bill Bennett basically called it when he said that Silber had run for the wrong party. Certainly you’re right, though, that either of them is vastly preferable to the majority of…

It’s a fantasy. If you’re someone who’s suffered the kind of attack he repeatedly perpetrated, it’s a natural fantasy for you to have. I get it. I sincerely doubt that if you did somehow have the ability to make it come true, you would.

First and last time I ever voted Republican: Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in ‘90.

Fair enough. The comment I was responding to seemed to imply that being raped would teach him some sort of empathy.

But he won’t. That’s not the way you create empathy. It’s the way you punish. I understand wanting him to be punished, and to suffer, but it almost certainly won’t make him a better person in any way.

That would be an awful attitude to take, definitely. You can easily argue, though, that she turned a blind eye to her husband’s criminal behavior because it allowed her to maintain a very comfortable life without having to posit that her husband’s criminal behavior had anything to do with any failure of hers as a…

Or anything above his brainstem.

I did read what you wrote. If you’d limited yourself to discussing the code and whether they broke it, you might have convinced me, although I think there’s an argument to be made that if the issue is partisan politics, that’s not what this was. When you implied this was in any way analogous to a Nazi salute, though,…

This approach only works, when it works at all, for people who are genuinely gregarious, that is, people who tend to talk and interact with strangers regardless of whether they have any ulterior motive. That’s not everyone’s style, and there’s no reason it should be. However, if you’d like to develop this skill, the…

Happens to the best of us.

I think you’re responding to the wrong comment.