GreyEyedGhost

Yeah, I don't see getting worked up about artistic taste. No one is forcing g them to read their stuff, and if someone actually is, their problem should be with whoever is forcing them to.

Let people enjoy their shit and move on.

For at least 5 months of the year no one wants to occupy Winnipeg. That value increases slightly for the other 7 months.

It's always fucking Winnipeg. People need to find a new punchline...

Nah, still trying to see how a problem with a leader of a province doesn't affect Canadians.

I don't know. I don't live in Nova Scotia, and I gather politicians lying is a local problem.

Looks like it's will have to spell it out, then. This is a specific issue happening to Canadians who live in Nova Scotia, but it isn't a unique problem to Nova Scotians and if you focus simply on this one instance you will probably not be able to identify the underlying cause, which is affecting all Canadians. And while the problem at hand may be under provincial purview, it is a problem that is happening at the provincial level across the country. I'm sure we can find elected officials at all levels of government who have been strident against some position while they weren't in charge and suddenly don't want to change things as soon as they're in charge.

Your whole comment chain comes across with the same tone as saying we can't talk about the systemic problems in healthcare at a national level because they're a provincial matter and the strikingly similar problems from province to province are completely unrelated. 🙄

Everything you said there is pretty typical with high functioning ASD, up to and including others being uncomfortable with past behavior and statements.

I can't say I disagree with him - in an ideal world. Now all we need is a world where it's easy enough to tell if someone is mature enough to make those kinds of decisions, no one uses power imbalances to allow them to achieve their desires, kids are fully aware of the impact their decisions will have on them decades in the future, and on and on. That's clearly not the world we live in, and I expect it will never be, and so we err on the side of caution, and don't condone children engaging in certain activities until they're older, and even then only with people of a similar age until such a time where trying to stop them from engaging in potentially reckless behavior is more harmful than allowing them to do so.

I'll refer you to my previous comment.

Good thing this is only a problem in Nova Scotia and not the rest of Canada!

/s

As one of Chevy Chase's characters said, "Every day is better than the next."

Blaming the "other" is just tribalism, which has all the same problems as racism. Saying it's easy doesn't excuse it.

It's because of the burden of knowledge you're carrying in your head. The choices you make...