Some women do orgasm during rape. It’s a bodily function you can’t always control. Some rapists who don’t view themselves as rapists (like Cosby, who believe that they really wanted it and that women just don’t know what their true desires are) work really hard to make their victims orgasm.

No one is saying that kids can’t be educated. They certainly can be educated - they just have to meet certain standards. And if they don’t meet those standards, then they can still be home schooled, group-schooled, or go to private school. No one is taking away their right to get an education. (Schools also have the…

Oddly enough, in my liberal undergraduate education, I took economics classes and economics was encorporated into some of my biology classes (environmental studies and such). At my next school (a large university), it was a requirement to take straight economics courses (degree in Animal Sciences) even if you were…

I called you brainwashed because you are spouting the same shit that is pushed by pro-big business, pro-“capitalism” economists who haven’t changed their tune in hundreds of years, regardless of the new information that has been introduced. You are saying nothing new, nothing unique, nothing I haven’t heard before.…

Because we’ve been exporting our manufacturing to China. We import vast amounts of goods from China, including Apple products, machinery, clothing, and stupid plastic toys. These things then need to be shipped to the US, which causes a lot of pollution at sea and in the air. We import more shit than we export because…

Sure, I am glad that pollution in our country has decreased. Some of that is because businesses have moved production over to China, leading to their increase in pollution. China will change when we change.

The economic system you are favoring is based on a false premise. The economists you have been reading somehow believe in a system of infinite growth; that is, somehow the economy can continue to grow even with limited resources. So far, this has been supported by the labor and resources of other countries. In ye…

Any cuts to emissions are good. If we don’t cut emissions, then we have no leverage to get others to do it. And if we set up the infrastructure to decrease emissions (more solar, wind, or other alternatives), then we will be more self-sufficient in the future. We could also place heavy tariffs on China’s imports that…

Sorry, that was a joke. I thought that was clear, given how ridiculous the claim was. I should have added the /s part to the end. The first part was sorta a joke, too, but also sorta not. I get that one hang up is one hang up and it doesn’t matter to you much - that’s fine. It’s not one I could put up with, as another…

Can he birth children? Cuz it seems to me the person who puts in the most effort in creating said children gets to “claim” them, name-wise.

Well, the person who births the child gets the last name. At least, that’s my theory. If he wants to birth a child, then he can have the same last name. Now, if you’re planning to adopt, that’s a more difficult conundrum.

As I replied to HudsonEileeniversity:

This isn’t really the case. I have a dress code and I’m in vet school - “professional” dress. However, we can’t wear scrubs (unprofessional?). We can wear jeans and t-shirts. Women can’t wear shorts or skirts shorter than their lab coats (which were conveniently given to us as “unisex”, so are way longer than they…

In the long run, it’s still the same problem as with meat. It is way more efficient to eat lower down on the food chain. If bugs eat grasses or grains, they poop out a lot of stuff and use a lot of stuff to make ATP (plus a bunch of stuff being lost in heat). All that energy transfer is wasted. Eating plants directly…

Animal cruelty BS? This should be good. I’m not vegan, but animals do, in fact, suffer. I’ve seen some really shitty stuff being a vet student. Maybe you just haven’t experienced it?

There is no way that we could support ourselves on hunting. A small portion of the population, maybe, but it’s not going to help in the long run because there just aren’t enough wild animals to support the gajillion people on earth. The solution is just to eat less meat - wild or farm-raised.

I don’t quite understand...this article is pointing out that raising animals for meat is bad, so your solution is to raise different animals for meat? How is that better?

Deer are actually not the main hosts for the ticks that spread Lyme. Small mammals are more linked to tick populations. Helpful species include foxes (which eat the small mammals) and opossums (which eat ticks). Humans are, generally, bigger pests than deer.

Meatless chik’n nuggets taste almost like the real thing - it’s all in the breading, after all. Meatless sausage is good, too. My mom was (and still is) a vegetarian for my entire childhood and she did most of the cooking, so we had a lot of veggie meals. Potato and fake sausage, cheese, rice, and bean casserole, tons…

There is actually a pretty big difference between 12 and 15, developmentally, with regards to sexual behavior. However, I would say that 12 is borderline late for that kind of exploratory behavior with other children (close to your age, generally). At 15, people tend to have passed the curiosity about the human body…