That could be the case with extremely rare diseases, but sadly that’s not the case here.

To be fair, he wasn’t wrong.

They convicted the guy for wearing black, because apparently that meant that he was part of a larger “conspiracy” for violence in which he didn’t even participate. US courts continue to be an embarrassment to jurisprudence.

Reddit would ban you for that comment, despite the fact that it’s literally true.

Killing children is bad: this is not something over which genuine disagreement could possibly arise.

I mean, aren’t we literally against Hamas because they kill children? What is so complex about being consistent with the application of your moral rules?

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Yes, do we have cause to be against genocide or don’t we? This one is tough. I mean the merits of genocide are obvious but there are drawbacks, too. Those pesky academics can’t see the bigger picture.

Or, generally when students and academics at the world’s top universities start protesting, shit is fucked.

“Silent”

Or, and I know this sounds crazy so bear with me, TikTok has almost 200 million US users and it’s owned by a hostile authoritarian regime seeking to dismantle any vestige of democracy around the globe.

Just spitballing here.

Yes, the founding fathers were deeply worried about peasants voting to redistribute wealth or give themselves civil liberties. These were the impulses that needed checking and balancing. Hence the existence of a Senate and a Supreme Court. Democratic scholars know this, yet schoolchildren continue to be taught incorrect information.

“Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. […] Democracy, will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes, and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues, and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."

• John Adams (1807)

"Too many… love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.”

• First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay

“If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.”

• Hamilton (1787)

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

• James Madison (1787)

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My cat is old, too, and he mostly doesn’t kill anything when I let him in the backyard. But that is not the norm for most cats, and people need to be aware.

Nobody is denying that cats are wild animals. The point is that they are uniquely capable hunters that can unilaterally exterminate the small fauna in a region.

I mean maybe your cat in particular is lazy and doesn’t hunt, but most cats do. For instance, house-cats kill 3.7 billion birds annually.

The US Supreme Court is an illegitimate, unelected governing body wielding about as much power as all of our elected congresspeople combined. It is one of the reasons that the United States is not considered a full democracy.

Cats absolutely decimate populations of small fauna. They’re an ecological disaster. Either keep your cat indoors or don’t get one. You are not entitled to own a living creature; it’s a privilege that must be exercised with consideration.

I love cats. I wish I could have more of them, but I can’t for all these reasons.

Or killed anyone. More’s the pity.

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Democracy is many things, but an automatic defense of cults and child abuse it is not.

Using liberal democracy to defend religious indoctrination is like using feminism to defend stoning. Which, btw, is also happening as a consequence of religion.

All religious indoctrination of children should be illegal. The concept of a “religious school” is oxymoronic.

That’s an oddly easy question to answer. Are you serious? People are dumb. They use whatever is popular for no other reason than that it’s popular. Steam is one of the best examples of that fact ever.

Apple’s activities should be regulated just like Steam’s for the good of the whole industry. This won’t happen because no one cares about the gaming industry, least of all gamers.