principleofthething
Principle of the Thing
principleofthething

You are tired!

It seems to me there’s a pretty obvious difference between “I invited some friends over for dinner and asked them to chip in” and “I’m running an underground restaurant out of my apartment.” Again, I just think it’s ridiculous to enforce laws like this on a scale this small. The law is fine and it’s obviously best to

While I think any person buying food over Facebook has long since passed the Proceed At Your Own Risk sign- she’s lucky she’s not getting audited for under-reporting her income as well.

She picked the wrong krill to die on.

Were you more angered by the fact that she was held in a cage for two months and faced certain death, or that the officers who discovered her and saved her life perhaps used cultural and regional slang that didn’t quite conform to your standards?

Of course! It’s not enough to expect officers to find and rescue a woman from a cage where she faced certain death. They’re also required not to use language that adheres 100% to what some of the readers here deem appropriate. Cultural and regional slang be damned.  

And yet the one thing you chose to comment on (until this ridiculous diatribe here) was a cop’s honest and compassionate reaction to what had to be a completely horrific discovery. Excuse him for being human.