Comment Re:Why is the solution to every problem (Score 1) 716
I've bought and planted poppy seeds.... Not illegal....
Are you saying that being a pot smoker is genetic? Or that people are gay by choice?
Drug laws aren't enforced fairly. Someone who doesn't have white skin and uses drugs is more likely to end up being prosecuted than someone who is white and uses drugs.
Ah, you assumed that because I used a collective noun, that my statement refered to every member of that group and not just a general tendency. That's a bad assumption.
I assumed you meant what you wrote. Maybe that was a bad assumption.
Also, you might want to be careful about trying to come up with general tendencies of groups of people. Feeling that certain groups have certain tendencies has been the root cause of a lot of bad.
A silent, black-and-white, anti-Mormon Danish movie made in 1911...that's the best counterexample you've got? I suppose it means Mormons can't say that they've never tried to silence their critics, but if you have to go back to 1911 to find a counter, I'd say the modern Mormon Church must not be very litigious.
Additionally, that film isn't really critical of Mormons. Closer to ridiculous fiction with Mormons as the antigonists.
How did you infer either of those from what I said? Neither follow.
You said,
Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage. This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion. Do I need to draw you a diagram?
Because you said, "Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage" I wanted to point out that many Mormons opposed prop8. Also, you said, "This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion" so I wanted to point out that the ban also applies to some people who do follow the religion.
Also, I am a little curious why you feel the Mormons are so responsible for proposition 8. I heard somewhere that Mormons make up about 2% of California. I've also heard around 4%-10% of California is homosexual. How is it possible in your opinion that 2% of the state is able to exercise so much control? My personal opinion is that you have a *greatly* exeragated opinion of the impact the Mormons made with prop8.
Stop your fucking trolling. They violated the law in a bigoted advertising campaign, there's no "slander" involved.
They violated the law in not properly reporting non-monetary contributions in support of Proposition 8 and paid a $5500 fine. Mind sharing which advertising that was paid for by the Mormons was so bigoted?
Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage. This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion. Do I need to draw you a diagram?
Are you suggesting that no Mormons are homosexual? Or are you suggesting that no Mormons voted against prop8? I assure you that if you are both suggestions are false.
That didn't stop you from forcing your religion on homosexual couples in California.
In what way exactly has religion been forced onto homosexual couples in California and how did the Mormons single-handedly force it on them?
Not hate speech, but copyright, and used to silence critics with lawsuits;
Eh, as those critics are still there I wouldn't really call the "silenced". Also, it wasn't criticism that was targetted, but publishing a pages from a Church manual online. I imagine if they'd instead tried to summarize the content in their own words there wouldn't have been a lawsuit. Disclaimer: IAAM
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I wanted to mod you up, but you didn't have a link for those that missed the whole funny affair.... http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
Instead of ideas such as making people smaller why not simply confront the fact that we need to severely restrict births. A lower population eats less meat, needs less roads and cars and allows general preservation of the environment as well as having natural land for wild life. Simply have rules that allow only the best young people to have one child in one marriage. Problem solved and no test tubes or fancy thinking need be involved at all.
Yes, great idea! Let's create a world government with enough power to: - measure the best-ness of every single human - decide who gets to have children. Not the best? Sorry, no kids for you dumb-ass! And I'm sure this entire process would be done fairly and transparently and wouldn't favor the people in power.... - the power to enforce its decisions from people who may not want to follow the rules and may be trying to hide pregnancies. That means somehow getting all females on the planet to take periodic pregnancy tests (probably a blood test so the results can't be faked) and aborting the preganancies of anyone who is pregnant without permission. Great world you envision.... I'd personally rather give up meat....
At least we haven't had any World Wars since the UN was founded. There have been also a dramatic decrease in wars between countries. Getting involved in civil wars wasn't the UN's original purpose, but its mission has expended since it has been so successful in preventing other kinds of wars.
And by that logic the TSA has a legitimate claim to preventing terrorists from highjacking more planes.
If he still has a job after news leaks that he was accused of possessing child pornography he won't after law enforcement goes to his employer looking for evidence of embezzling *their* because they can't use the evidence on his computer...
there != their Too bad there is no edit button, huh....
Fruit of the poisonous tree, that evidence would be inadmissible. This is first year law school stuff...
If he still has a job after news leaks that he was accused of possessing child pornography he won't after law enforcement goes to his employer looking for evidence of embezzling *their* because they can't use the evidence on his computer...
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