Dr. Mat Staver is absolutely a human person, and not at all a high-functioning Turing machine, and Dr. Mat Staver has observed many instances of admirable behavior on the part of Roy Moore, and also Kayla, who is the wife of the Roy Moore.

Because I don’t like obvious trolls or intentional assholes.

I bet you get lots of second dates.

We could play that game all day, but let’s try it a different way:

Yeah and whatever asshole starred it after you should delete his account.

Both teams played really good defense for most of the night. The Warriors got blitzed at the end of the third with the arena going crazy (felt a lot like one of those runs they often go on at Oracle.) But to me the difference in the game was, to be perfectly sports-cliche about it, poise. All night, even when the…

I did, which is why I’ve stated over and over in this very lengthy comment thread that the guy’s conduct was clearly worse than hers.

You should get better at reading. I’m not interested in your thanks.

Okay, let’s not make false equivalencies. Let’s not make the false equivalency that photographing yourself either touching, or coming within a millimeter of touching, a woman’s (yes, kevlar-clad) boobs while she was sleeping, a woman you’d previously had at the very least an awkward sexual moment with when she was a…

I’m sure Dan Ariely, human person, husband and father is very comfortable making moral judgments. I think it’s right and proper and absolutely for the best that Dan Ariely, behavioral economist being interviewed by a blogger planning to write about her traumatic sexual experience, should refrain from expressing them.…

Well I think we’ve mined this one pretty fully. For what it’s worth I don’t see in the article any limits Ariely is placing on what he meant by human. As for whether it’s a problem or a good thing that he (who is not the person writing the article) decided to stay value-neutral - and whether that value-neutrality can…

We disagree over very very little here. I totally agree with you on the relative moral failings (or lack thereof) of the two parties. I just think that Ariely appropriately stayed out of making those value judgments; that, rather than being “sloppy” or “too short to fully convey his meaning,” in fact his use of a word…

when a behavioral economist, in the context of discussing their research, refers to “mistake,” I think it would be quite rare for them to be making any reference to ethics or morality.

1) Calling them both mistakes, especially how Ariely presented it, IS drawing an equivalency.

But when the subjects were aroused, that number went down to 69

You’re doing an awful lot of projecting onto Ariely’s pretty bland statement that both the asking and the agreeing are mistakes. For one, you seem to be suggesting, or at least hinting at the possibility, that the author’s sex partner had a premeditated plan to manipulate her. You don’t know that; he too could have…

Surely there’s a premium on size, here

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

Do lawyers ever thing to themselves “God, I am SO FULL OF SHIT”

His longer statement, just out, is much better. But it’s totally legit if you maintain that he’s still gotta go.