Dumb Political Correctness

Bottom line? You have to have a line somewhere. If we always attack the margin then we'll never have a standard.
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bystander, this is such an important statement. This has to be the habit to have any kind of order. There can be grace at the margins but you don't attack the margins.

The weaknesses of our political spectrum as I see them are that the Left always attacks margins and the Right gives no space or grace for exceptional cases.
 
Monahorns said:
bystander, this is such an important statement. This has to be the habit to have any kind of order. There can be grace at the margins but you don't attack the margins.

The weaknesses of our political spectrum as I see them are that the Left always attacks margins and the Right gives no space or grace for exceptional cases.
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One party has goals and the other has systems. Goals with systems is chaos.
 
Monahorns said:
bystander, this is such an important statement. This has to be the habit to have any kind of order. There can be grace at the margins but you don't attack the margins.

The weaknesses of our political spectrum as I see them are that the Left always attacks margins and the Right gives no space or grace for exceptional cases.
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I am not a fan of what I would call "legal anarchy." I am not a fan of destroying a standard for the benefit of one special case. Certainly, when it happens to you, you want to bend the law, as most most laws cannot possibly cover all contingencies as written. But we know the game and the failure to accept line of demarcation is an intellectual exercise in egoism as far as I'm concerned. OF COURSE, we can argue that the margin is in fact erroneously laid. You can do that all day long.

SO WHAT?

I'm not impressed with it and as much as I am for individual freedom, I am also supportive of a union that must somehow hold itself together on the basis of voluntary acceptance of standards and not custom made rules for each and every one of us.
 
Well, yeah bystander, I don't think I was saying we shouldn't have common standards. All I am saying is that there should also be grace. That can be in how the laws are written or how cases are judged. There is already room for some of that in our judicial system or in how police choose to pursue crime.

This isn't legal anarchy. It isn't arbitrary either. But it recognizes that there has to be something beyond the law that affects how decisions are made. Call it ethics or morality or discretion.
 
The wicked abortionist who bragged about slicing the vocal cords of fetuses so she couldn't hear them scream has lost her licence

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Torres is baby butcherer. The thing is, it's legal in our great Christian, democratic nation. I think I am going to be sick at my stomach.
 
So a 20 year old having sex with a 10 year old is reasonable to you?
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Ah, the internet arguing technique of putting "So" before a disingenuous question, pretending to be honestly asking if that's what the other person said, when they obviously said nothing of the sort. If you want to discuss what parts of the law are reasonable or not, let's do so. Making up this sort of poorly-veiled accusation is vile.
 
Statalyzer said:
Ah, the internet arguing technique of putting "So" before a disingenuous question, pretending to be honestly asking if that's what the other person said, when they obviously said nothing of the sort. If you want to discuss what parts of the law are reasonable or not, let's do so. Making up this sort of poorly-veiled accusation is vile.
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That reminds me of a girlfriend in Austin who also HATED sentences that began with the word "So, ..." She habitually responded the same way, "Sew buttons on your bluejeans." The only change might be her voice intonation or cadence. I must have heard it 10,000 times. And SO now I always hear it when someone says it out loud. If I respond with "sew buttons on your bluejeans," no one has any idea what the heck I am talking about. But I still do it anyway.
 
Joe Fan said:
This is an electrical engineer at Sandia who started something of a civil war inside the company by fighting back against the company's stiffing use of critical race theory
He emailed his video to all 16,000 fellow employees
Within hours, Sandia executives struck back dispatching a team to lock him out of the network and scrub his communications from internal servers—which, made the video even more viral and sparked widespread unrest against Sandia executives.
By the afternoon, executives were panicking about the brewing rebellion, placed him on paid administrative leave, and established a "security review board" to "evaluate whether [his] actions have comprised or posed a threat to Sandia computing and security systems."
He said he is speaking on behalf of all of Sandia employees who are "scared to speak out" because of the lab's repressive culture. "If I get fired because of this,the fight does not end, it only intensifies."
This is the first explicit large scale corporate rebellion against critical race theory. "We need to completely rip [critical race theory] out of Sandia root and stem. It is cancer and we need to get it out of the labs right now."

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Update on the CRT crap at Sandia Labs

 
So a company that sells overpriced yoga pants is saying to "resist capitalism." Link. No, this is not from the Onion or Babylon Bee.
 
Statalyzer said:
Ah, the internet arguing technique of putting "So" before a disingenuous question, pretending to be honestly asking if that's what the other person said, when they obviously said nothing of the sort. If you want to discuss what parts of the law are reasonable or not, let's do so. Making up this sort of poorly-veiled accusation is vile.
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Your exact quote is below. How was my example disingenuous? You think adults having sex with a minor is ok and 10 years is a "pretty reasonable" age difference. Where do you draw the line? 24 with 14 year old? Where?


Statalyzer said:
but caps it at a maximum of 10 year difference at which point the judge no longer even has the option. That seems pretty reasonable.
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