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Comment Re:So we can't call anyone stupid anymore (Score 1) 622

Well, don't you think he SHOULD be able to wear his gold jewelry out in public?

Well of course he should.

He should also understand what the word "risk" means, and how to mitigate it.

For example, people SHOULD be able to ride a bicycle on the shoulder of a busy interstate, but that would be mind-blowingly idiotic because of the risks involved.
One SHOULD be able to take a walk through the 'Brews neighborhood wearing an Adolf Hitler costume, but again, that would be insanely idiotic.

Same goes for strolling through any low-income, crime-ridden neighborhood flashing a shit-ton of expensive stuff that's easy to steal. Like jewelry.

Comment Re:Straw Man (Score 1) 622

I agree, I'm an atheist but I thought that anti-Christian comment at the end was totally out of place and painted the writer of the article as an intolerant bigot. It was totally out of place in the article and really undermines his point.

I see this is your first time reading a BH blog post masquerading as a news item.

Yea, they all pretty much end up the same way - with the audience wondering what the hell he just wasted 10 minutes of his life reading.

Comment Re:Straw Man (Score 1) 622

But with the ubiquity of cellphone cameras, a lot of people find the thrill to be difficult to resist.

Boudoir photography is as old as the camera itself, and every American household has owned once since about the 1960's or 1970's. Cellphones have jack to do with it.

Your advice would certainly be effective, but isn't it akin to telling teenagers to abstain from sex in order to protect themselves from STIs and pregnancy?

Pretty much. Probably just as effective, too.

Unless you make yourself crazy ensuring that you never appear naked near anyone who might have a camera (and everyone has a camera these days), you can't really guarantee that this will work.

Well, you can do a lot if you would stop frequenting orgies and stripping to the buff in the middle of the public library...

Seriously, are there a lot of places where one would typically get naked around groups of other people? I can only think of 2 places where I strip down to my birthday suit, and both of them are in my own house.

Comment Re:Read below to see what Bennett has to say. (Score 3, Insightful) 622

If you write your pin number on your ATM card are you not at least partially to blame when a thief finds the card and cleans out your account? Of course the thief is wrong, but wow you were stupid!

Yes, that's called "negligence."

It's why, in that situation, the bank would refuse to reverse the charges, and probably get away with it.

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651

Right. UK, Israel, Canada, Switzeland, German, Japan, etc., are all totalitarian states.

I never so much as implied they were. You inferred what you wanted, because you don't want to accept the truth of my statement: Every society that has forcibly disarmed the populace turned into abusive, totalitarian states.

Although, I wouldn't use the surveillance state of the UK, nor the police state of Israel, nor the heavily-armed-populace nation of Swizerland in your example. Really, the only one on that list I consider historically clean (we all know what Japan and Germany's past sins are) would be Canada. But then, you can legally own guns in Canada, too.

Comment Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it (Score 1) 276

Although Obama has proven that he doesn't give a shit about peace, McCain would have made Obama look like Ghandi by comparison. At minimum, we'd be in a full-scale war with Iran.

Rather than the current situation of a mid-scale war with damn near every single other middle-eastern nation, arming rebels who then turn out to be ISIS.

Considering how things have turned out, I almost would have preferred the "war with Iran" option. But the fact is, our blood and treasure will be used to protect US corporate interests in the region, regardless of which puppet gets "elected" to lead the charge.

Comment Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it (Score 1) 276

Pulled out too early? That's why we've got ISIS.

Point of fact, ISIS started in Syria, a nation we never sent troops to who would need "pulled out." So that theory falls on it's face.

No, bud, we got ISIS from US officials who insisted on arming Syrian rebels without regard to the potential fallout - US officials like Barack Obama.

Hey, isn't that pretty much how Al Queda got their start, too? And the Taliban?

Comment Re:The sliding scale of activist groups. (Score 1) 367

Fur Coats - I can see that we don't need Fur Coats anymore as there is a big selection of cheaper and effective other sources for coats. (Fur as in they need to kill the animal)

FYI, "nobody needs X" is as piss poor and invalid an argument as "for the children." Nobody needs a lot of the stuff you use every day either, but equally nobody else has the right to tell you "you can't have that stuff because you don't need it."

Food from babies - Veal and Lamb. Tasty but the animal is so cute I loose my appetite when I think of it that way.

You don't have to be a member of a terrorist group to feel that eating babies is wrong. Side note, I find it funny that when people talk about "eating baby animals," PETA people included, most people don't mention chicken eggs. MMmmm, delicious poultry fetus...

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