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Quote from TrappedUnderIce »I do not support a justice system that obstinately refuses to hold itself accountable to the law that it is meant to uphold. Like everyone else, police are innocent until proven guilty; sadly, this platitude never gets put to use because they never face trial for the assault they commiton black bodies.
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Quote from Jay13x »Quote from magickware99 »I said nothing about making it illegal because people do bad things. It is already illegal. I am saying that worst things could occur if it becomes legal.
Yeah, the issue here is suddenly there isn't the pressure from patients or the doctors to ensure every organ's provenance, and all of a sudden you have perfectly legal, unscrupulous organ hunters paying people a pittance for their body parts in far higher numbers than you see today.
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Quote from algebraShould a teacher be fired for such twitter comments?
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Quote from TiaxQuote from Fluffy_Bunny
I would argue that some would say allowing them to marry is harming them. He very well may believe that he's helping them not sin by trying to prevent them from being able to get married. 20 years ago that opinion would have been popular opinion. Were gay right activist harming gay's by fighting for their rights? Now we as a society say no... but that wasn't always true. That's why donations and speech need to be protected. Today's unpopular is tomorrow's truth. Just because some idea went through the cycle going from popular to un-popular does not mean we should throw away the ability to fight for that idea.
I reject this sort of moral relativism. Just because a bunch of people thought something terrible doesn't make it not terrible.
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Quote from Fluffy_BunnyTo me the question is not whether or not the company did the right thing... of course they did they were staring massive losses in the face they really had no option.
The question is whether or not society as a whole is getting over zealous with the whole "boycott" thing. Realistically how important is a guy's views on gay marriage to his job of being a CEO of a browser company? They are completely unrelated. Someone could be the biggest most backwards bigot in the world and still be a good CEO as long as he kept those things separate.
Yes, society has the right to react the way they did and they did not do anything illegal. But I think it is an overreaction.
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The issue is not wheather it brings harm to the woman. The issue is does this harm to the employer. The employee is not the one suing. Having this coverage manadate harms the company. The question is not that it harms but how it harms.
As is the case in pretty much every legal proceeding ever, in the history of all mankind ever, there is more than one relevant issue. Whether there is a legal harm to the employee by the employer is relevant to the issues in the case. That makes it a relevant question for her to ask.
But more on point, you were blasting her for saying something dumb, when what she said made legal sense and was relevant.
No, it is not. It's irrelevant. The issue before the court is clearly about the mandate placed upon the employer and if that harm violates that employers rights. There is no reason to consider the rights of the employee. If it harms the rights of the employer that does not somehow make it valid since it would violate the right of the employee. This is an example of a liberal trying to shift the goalpost. She said something dumb and irrelevant when dicussing the rights of the other people who were not in her court and had nothing to do with issue about the employers rights that are in question.
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Quote from buttnakedwonderNo matter how much you have invested in cards or how much you hate the fact that good cards cost money, a large influx of good counterfeits entering the market will ruin thegameresell value for everyone.
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Quote from TaldierIndeed. Why exactly do we want them wasting time coming up with a new cycle of rare dual lands every year? Is this the design space they need to be exploring? Could they instead replace them with actual spells that do things instead of retreading the same ground over and over in only slightly different ways?
As an aside, I'd rather have a fetch than anything else. Dual lands arent "better 99% of the time". My Legacy UWR deck plays 3 revised duals, 3 basic lands, and 8 fetches.
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That is the way it is.... You are not legally obligated to provide a tip. You are socially obligated to provide a tip (unless you can justify not giving one with reasons like the service being terrible).
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If you want people in the future to be less likely to make this decision, don't say this woman did something deplorable by leaving her children motherless. Convince people that abortion is not murder. Until that point is universally accepted there will be people that will easily weigh that decision as murder versus death. I can't fault someone for choosing against what they believe to be murder.
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I don't think he is proposing anything at all... he's just pointing out that there could be negative side effects of legalizing gay marriage and that supporters of gay marriage should realize that it may not be the 100% simple answer we want to believe it is. Not saying that those possible negatives outweigh the positives but just that they could exist.
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I see 2 types of college athletes those that want a degree and to participate in sports and those that are just there for the sports. We try to force those from group two to be like those from group one and it's silly.
Keep college sports in college so those that do want traditional degrees to go with their sports can do that, but lets stop pretending that all college athletes are in college for a degree. Many of them are there because that's where they have to go to have a chance at the pros.
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Putting kids into social situations can open the door for bullying. Bullying isn't going to suddenly manifest while playing dodgeball. Bullying in dodgeball is going to simply be an extension of the bullying that is already happening. If a kid is bullied on the dodgeball court chances are that kid is also being bullied in other situations.
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The big issue I see is if we can agree that a swat that doesn't leave a mark is fine, but what AP did is not fine... is it even possible to draw a line somewhere in between?
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This is one thing that I really don't understand and really disagree with. Maybe it deserves a separate thread but I have a feeling it would die pretty quickly...
A business' main objective is to make money by providing goods and/or services. If a business wants to refuse to make money on a particular clientele why should we force them to? In theory... a business that accepts the widest variety of clientele will be more successful because they will have more potential customers. If a bakery wants to have a stance of not providing cakes for gay weddings they are losing out on customers, and if I was having a gay wedding I wouldn't trust them to make my cake anyway given their views... Would you rather be refused service and find somewhere else to go or get terrible service?
To parallel the race issue. If I was a black man I think I would rather know that Restaurant X does not want me there and then go to Restaurant Y, instead of risking having my burger spit on or worse.
Especially in today's culture, I can't imagine too many business doing very well after advertising that they wont serve "A B or C". It would take owners that are truly convicted in their beliefs to do something like that. So for people who believe that strongly... why try to stop them?
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A gun, firearm, whatever... can be used as a weapon (even a flare gun), some of them were even designed as weapons, but that does not matter at all. Just because something was designed to kill people does not invalidate its other uses.
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You definitely would not need real guns in class, or at least not functioning guns. Use guns without firing pins or just plain fake guns...