Americans are obsessed with the idea that anyone can change themselves into anything if they just work hard enough.

It's why in places like slashdot there is so little sympathy for poor people or minority rights groups, as it's generally assumed that they're just not trying, and so much love for billionaires, as it's generally taken that they are (a) supermen, (b) able to be emulated, and (c) worthy of emulation.

You can call him sub-human (if that means anything) as much as you want, what you can't do is then extrapolate it to say that all people with black skin are sub-human.

If you don't want to live near people with different coloured skin, that's up to you, just don't get all offended when people identify you as a moronic racist.

Hold on, you seem to be implying that you actually read TFA. Have you no shame?

Astonishingly, not everyone was ever a geophysics undergraduate.

As far as I'm concerned, if you sell photos of people, then you get a model release form.

A school is not a public place.

To test this, go to a random school and start taking pictures of the kids, then have fun explaining to the security guard or cop that will soon appear that you're exercising your right to take pictures of school children without their (or their parents') knowledge or permission.

I hadn't realised that "making money illegally" was now a civil right in the US. Presumably the relevant constitutional amendment was sponsored by Uber?

"Anubis, you've been a very naughty boy, so you have to go out and play football in the park with your friends, chase after girls, and go to bed late."

Fight the power, man.

You were lucky. In my day you were flogged with a cat-o-nine-tails even if you'd done nothing wrong. If you did something really bad (like getting a Latin declension wrong) then you were summarily executed. Twice if it involved girls.

And you try telling that to kids today...

It would be settled (or rather thrown) out of court because its's fucking illegal to make commercial use of a model without a signed release form.

But of course, on slashdot, as long as something makes money it must be good because it's not the government.

So, you don't agree with him then?

The OP made a not unreasonable analogy. Just because you subscribe to the slashdot hivemind belief that (a) copyright is bollocks and (b) everyone has a god-given right to make money in any way they like *cough* uber *cough* does not mean that there aren't valid counter-beliefs you can argue for.