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Why do you keep posting this? Your problem isn't with people looking at naked pictures or lewd stories, it's with exploitation. That's a capitalist problem, not a porn one. Are you suggesting that in cases of capitalist exploitation we ban the exploited industry instead of regulating the capitalists?

Next page in this playbook is fixing disproportionate domestic violence against women by beating men, and fixing disproportionate institutional racism by arresting more white men on bullshit charges. I think the underlying problems will just find a new outlet.

(not who you replied to) We can be anti-zionists without being pro-Iran. They have a horrific history of human rights abuses. Their sovereignty is being violated, but their government is not a good one.

Les Mis does not depict the second French Revolution, but the June Rebellion years earlier.

You should read Butler's "Who's Afraid of Gender?"

It would be on sight.

I mean the danger of capsizing in a cruise ship is vanishingly tiny, and the Navy has similarly top heavy vessels, like aircraft carriers. They have massive keels, and their displacement is so huge that rough seas mean almost nothing to them. You're far more likely to die in millions of more common activities than to a cruise ship capsizing. I don't really see how taking statistics is helping your argument at all, as statistics are on the cruise's side. Driving or riding in a car is far more dangerous.

Now, cruise ships suck for other reasons, like their exploitation of poor countries and massive carbon emissions. Arguing against cruise ships from a statistical safety standpoint is like arguing against airplanes because they could crash, regardless of how likely. The cruise ship excursions and activities on board are more dangerous than their seaworthiness.

You decided I'm mad, not me. You also didn't answer the question. Obvious rage bait, shouldn't have fed the troll.

Can you elaborate? What is "honest and open" about being rude to someone for no reason?

Nothing irks me more than the "sharing your unasked for opinion at any time is just telling the truth" crowd. Come on. You must know the difference between honesty and integrity for the sake of good communication and being insensitive because it's "the truth." You're not being honest, regardless of the truth of your beliefs, you're being a dick if you tell someone they're not attractive without being asked.

If someone asks, "Am I attractive," not fishing for compliments but asking for an opinion, you wouldn't be a dick for saying "I wouldn't describe you as conventionally attractive," or "you aren't my type, so not to me." You would still be a dick for saying either of those things to someone who didn't ask, or delivering your answer in an inconsiderate manner. Truth doesn't make your words right. You can be correct and still very wrong.

I would need to see multiple, peer reviewed sources. It's a very sensitive topic, but regardless, I don't believe that that material should be floating around. Access it through a psychiatrist, or therapist.

It's the same argument, that the character only looks like a child, but isn't. I chose a hyperbolic example for emphasis, but it's the same argument. It looks like a child. That's the point.