You keep using the word "city", I do not think it means what you think it means. Not every city in the country is like NYC - in fact it is pretty much the exception (maybe Chicago).

Take for example Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston. Very few places that people want to go in those cities are "within 5 miles". The population of those cities is surrounded by huge suburbs.

Ever wonder why major cities in the US have huge traffic jams - it's not because people are driving from one farm to another. It's driving from one suburb to another or a suburb to a business district.

You would probably end up dead without electricity as well unless you had the firepower to seize from others.

Watch "Naked and Afraid" - without modern technology it's a real struggle to survive even in decently hospitable locations.

Humans have lived without modern technology before, but never at this population level. Also, during those times wild food was much more abundant.

Also, why do you feel that people wanting to use their phones is some sort of weakness?

It may not have been claimed in the article, but it was claimed on the show itself.

It's all in the phrasing though. Atheists were demonized for generations as being wicked and disturbed, so it still carries a negative stigma to even those that aren't very religious at all. The famous Jack Chick tracts portrayed athiests as being worse than actually being evil.

That's why most tend to describe themselves as secular humanists.

The guy was already on the plane and the situation was over. Would you really act out some sort of revenge fantasy because you the guy hurt your feelings?

Unfortunately, he would have been arrested for making threats at the airport and would have been subject to a very violent arrest.

That's why this situation is so serious. Police go nuts when an incident at the airport is reported and that agent could have caused a man's life to be destroyed or even ended.

To be fair, Southwest caters to a different demographic than most other airlines.

You missed the point. He was already on the plane and the situation was over. There was no reason for the gate agent to go nuclear on him.

That's one of the reasons that they claim keeps their prices low - they're the fast food of the airline world.

You missed the entire point. It doesn't matter if the gate agent was right or wrong about whether his kids could board with him.

The point is that he was pulled off the plane for a non-threatening comment he made on twitter. Obviously Southwest gets the point as they're compensating the guy.

Every country was made of and founded by immigrants.

You could make that same case for any administration.

Lawyers cost money. The Tor Foundation will have to spend a lot of money defending this - even if they're successful. That's plenty of harm right there.

If you want more harm, you could consider the chilling effect that this will have on other foundations or projects.

No, that is completely backwards. Jobs had a rare type that was much easier to treat. It was nothing like the type that Swayze had. Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis.

You have all of that exactly backwards. Steve Jobs lived 8 years after his diagnosis. Jobs had a rare type of pancreatic cancer that grows very slowly and is much easier to treat.