I fucking love Viggo Mortenson’s thing. Because it’s attached to Viggo Mortenson, and I’m pretty sure he could bring me to spontaneous orgasm just by standing there.

Doctor shopping in general isn’t as big a thing in the UK.

“Medical autonomy should come with actual autonomy. If your claim is that a 14 year old can make their own medical decisions then they should also be held fully accountable for their actions. “

If you are honestly interested, listen to this:

Nuance. Try it.

If only the UK had you as a fucking legislator. You clearly know best. And linking our current ethical standpoint on medical autonomy to knife crime was a particularly astute observation.

When they are given support and information from doctors who hold their best interests paramount they usually do, yes.

Sure the UK has lots of bad policies, but Gillick Competence isn’t one of them.

Also, is anyone suggesting this is illegal? I don’t think anyone here has. But what is or isn’t illegal often has very little to do with what is or isn’t ethical or decent. And Microsoft’s decisions definitely have nothing to do with that.

Windows 10 is available throughout the world, and not all countries allow parents the same rights over their children that the US does. For example in the UK parents do *not* have the right to medical information without their child’s consent, from early adolescence onwards.

Many people with Down Syndrome are not always sweet either, particularly not when they begin to suffer from early onset dementia, which is sadly incredibly common with Down Syndrome.

Are they suggesting that? I think everyone agrees that it’s ok to wash the outer parts of the vulva with soap, don’t they?

Living with your parents into your late twenties is the norm in Italy.

No, proper hygiene does not dictate that. You don’t soap the inside of a vulva, it’s a fucking mucus membrane. The outer labia, inner thighs, mons, fine. But the pink bits just need a thorough wash with plain water. If your vulva still smells bad after that, that’s actually an indication of chronic BV.

It’s really not a big deal. There are cultures all over the world where that is perfectly normal, and if it didn’t work out that was probably for the same reasons that many impulsive teenage marriages don’t work out.

Isn’t a third cousin just barely more related than a random stranger anyway?

Down syndrome is almost always linked to maternal age and has absolutely nothing to do with heredity or inbreeding.

That’s some gold-star sanctimony.

Shite - you are talking it!

He’s right that we don’t use ‘sociopath’ anymore - except for tv writers who inexplicably love that archaic term - but psychopathy is a separate and distinct clinical construct from anti-social personality disorder. It’s measured using the PCL-R, and not everyone with a diagnosis of ASPD will have a clinically…