I don't know. People who were likely part of the bullying don't remember the bullying? Big surprise! Would it surprise me that she made shit up to get sympathy? Nope. But neither would it surprise me to hear that she was bullied, but the bullies claim they were "just joking" or something similar.

Oh, so you shift the burden of payment to countries that don't do this. I love paying for Canadian health care here in the US!

I'm not championing drug use. Merely saying that if a person is not free to put whatever they wish into their own body, they're not free. It doesn't really matter to me what happens after that.

Oh, and your appeal to the UN charter of rights or whatever was what I was referencing when I talked about government. So yeah, they're not actually a government, just an unelected conglomeration of governments.

Well, if the only way you know how to tell what rights you have is to ask the government, then we really aren't talking about the same thing.

And then their stars became red giants, and they all died.

When people commit crimes, you punish them for that and make them make restitituion. Not before they commit crimes. Punishing people because they "might" commit crimes is just plain wrong.

Why do we want to minimize addict populations again? If people want to wreck themselves with drugs, why shouldn't they be able to?

Frankly, I give a damn if it's a crime or not. In the same way that unpopular speech needs to be protected (because otherwise what's the point of freedom of speech? Popular speech doesn't *need* protecting) unpopular activities that harm no one need to be protected.

So wait, if you come across a picture of a half-naked pre-teen girl that was taken 20 years ago and hurt nobody, and you don't immediately turn into a stool pigeon tattle tale and rat out the website you saw it on, you give up your presumption of innocence and can now legally have your life ruined by the FBI?

Good system!

You've seen the man, right? Do you think he even knows what a razor is?

So where did that inherent right to a free internet come from, anyway? Who made that up?

Why are you even reading fiction if you want everything to be true? Just go read scientific journals.

There's a reason people call hard SF "gadget porn".

Yeah, those damn lazy black people, always raping our precious white women.

Forget "officious". Just call him a pompous douchebag. That way he knows what you're saying without having to bother looking anything up!

Correct!