Not for the corporations that make money off of extorting a basic necessity from poor people! Won't someone think of the corporations?
Seasoned_Greetings
joined 1 year ago
News used to be 60 minutes just after prime time. Now they have whole channels with news 24/7/365. Have to fill all that air time with something
My argument was that you can't claim the moral high ground based on legality alone. I understand that nuance exists in the context, but moral high ground does not come from whether or not it's legal.
I see what you're getting at, but I think 'moral high ground' might not be the phrase you're looking for.
Laws and morals are explicitly different. That's why juries exist, so that a law may be put against the morals of a situation and the morals may prevail if need be.
Breaking the law isn't necessarily immoral. It's just illegal. So it isn't like someone breaking the law is seeking to take the moral high ground in the first place, nor does that mean that someone who only ever follows the law always has the moral high ground. Lawful-evil does exist.
Maybe that's the point. Unity caves immediately to the big lawyers and says "Sorry guys, we tried. Looks like all you little studios will have to pay up after all. Blame Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft"
Let's go a step further and analyze exactly what this graph is saying:
There's only about a 20% distribution difference in the "never" sections between Christians and atheists. So on average, 4/5 atheists would answer the exact same as Christians. All this graph says is that Christians are barely more tolerant than people who identify as atheist. Barely is the key word. If anything, this graph proves that tolerance levels don't fluctuate that much for the individual between differing religions.
But Bible thumpers need any win they can get, so they don't read the data for what it is, they just see one bar longer than the other and declare victory.
BECAUSE IT'S DEVASTATING TO MY CASE!
Congratulations, comrade. You passed the test of patriotism. Here's your gun and manifesto, we'll be sending you to confront the US army at dawn.
Do the same at VAs
The problem with that is that it may have been legal at the place it was done, but states would absolutely place police next door to wait for those women to come out. They already have laws that criminalize women who go out of state
And soon, the carrier pigeon breeders will start tagging them with tracking chips..
view more: next ›
Doublespeak. Republicans actively work to twist the meaning of words to their base to fit their agenda, so that the other side playing by the rules and being fair looks like political cheating. That way Republicans can engage in political cheating themselves and claim self defense.
In today's flavor, "legal standard" means "the ability to make us lose" so they want to apply their own "legal standard" to democrats.
It sounds dumb to anyone paying attention, but their voters will eat this up.