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of changes people have made in the environment such as suburban deer and geese or introduced feral hogs, but don't let some half wit "salt of the earth" "rugged individualist" or psychotic burn out like Nugent trying to turn all of Alaska into an overstocked moose ranch by killing off all the predators so that meth heads in places like Wasilla will be able to feed themselves intimidate you.
it doesn't seem like a big step from there to treat a 25 year old as a child too.
is more attractive men, so it makes sense that they would have a similar reaction.
but you have to concede that this exchange proves I'm pretty much right about pretty much everything.
How about "it's no worse for Durian Joe to kill off the babies that a woman he'd like to mate with has so she will have to fuck him to have more". I'm not a vegetarian by the way but this is a ludicrous argument and frankly I'm surprised to see you using it.
From the point of view of a guinea worm humans were created to be a host too. All animals violently compete with members of their own species; humans deriving all their food from sources which don't suffer is no more unnatural than ending war and murder. (Again given the current state of things some animals DO need to be killed by people).
If one out of a hundred or for that matter one out of a thousand women chooses to give birth to a female child rather than a male child (or are a member of a lesbian couple using the stem cells of one to create artificial sperm) and if this small imbalance persists over time you will get your wish. Not soon enough for you to benefit personally I know, but I can see how altruistic you are.
well they do change but mostly only as a result of hormonal changes. So the difference, at least for quite a while, really amounts mostly to a matter of successful camouflage.
or much much worse. I'm guessing maybe the latter but I've been seeing the bright side of everything since Tuesday.
Did you do that on purpose. OMG too much!
That still leaves a lot unexplained, since I think I can speak for most straight men when I say I think I could probably find a way to live with myself even if confronted on a regular basis with women obsessed with my dick. Gay men in the equivalent position seem to manage alright, or so I hear.
that sounds about right
she probably would have been able to do what Bush did EXCEPT for the fact that his/and hers brand of incurious good old boy/girl smirking fanaticism has ALREADY BEEN RECENTLY TRIED with less than impressive results. I do think she could manage a gig on FOX or elected office in a red backwater but I doubt she could get anywhere nationally unless she finds a way to put some serious distance between herself and her crazy cult. I have to say though I don't find her any MORE disturbing than I have found Bush the last 8 years.
would you complain about an "abused" man who got drunk every night and pissed all over the house if his wife had a bad attitude towards him because of it? The situations are equivalent. This is an hilarious example of exactly the kind of female self absorbtion that lots of people complain about.
would a woman who complains about an incontinent drunk be an abuser?
rapists and child molesters, as well as drunks and drug addicts all have reasons for why they are the way they are. Doesn't mean that aren't responsible for controlling themselves if they are mentally competent and aware.
some people can only eat very little or they will be disabled fat pigs. Like you have said, life isn't fair.
exist.
would feel about your exquisitely advanced levels of sensitivity and awareness.
but she knows the real situation. How could she not.
Under the circumstances (not only weight related) she can't really be abandoned, but there would be a lot more options for both of us to deal with things if she would accept the need and appropriateness of going hungry. Suppose a sleep walking child molester either wakes up horny or wakes up knowing he molested a child while sleepwalking. Any decent human being would be HAPPY to wake up frustrated under those conditions and UNHAPPY to be any other way. What we need is a way to induce anorexia in fat people that can be turned off after it has done it's job.
idiot. Seriously most people are "sociopaths" towards some people (criminals, enemies, etc) the difference is that sociopaths are "sociopathic" towards socially inappropriate targets. An interesting question is how much people would, or would not, change their "targeting" based on changed circumstances or different information.
to see what is really going on
they need to be in a facility. If someone wants to become the manager of a family nursing home for one, which the LW obviously doesn't, they can but no one is obligated to do this. Everyone needs to make a clear distinction between "helping out" and taking care of someone who needs professional care. It needs to be done by a professional, that is why they call it that.
old men, unless they have alzheimers, tend to push themsleves to keep going until they keel over.
with as much, or nearly as much, unhappiness as the prohibition itself. If even liberal women can only manage lukewarm opposition to a theocratic police state provided women are running it we are probably going to be in trouble.
The refusal of some to acknowledge this has made a real contribution to enabling the right wing wilding of the past eight years.