Unhinged behavior

I love the stuff, but the entire process and industry of how it comes to be is objectively strange and fucked up.

Milk doesn’t grow on trees…

That’s just what bodies look like my dude. People with prominent ab muscles are severely/dangerously dehydrated and malnourished.

lmao gouda’em

My favorite way to connect people with academia is pointing out how recently zero was invented because even the most reluctant “I don’t know math” person understands zero these days.

You were never gonna buy all those books in the first place.

Digital piracy is not theft. You’re not depriving the person who shared the pdf to you of anything.

Piracy is not theft. You have not deprived anyone of something they would otherwise have.

Those poor neglected kids :(

Can you provide an example of what you would like me to say here?

It’s a complicated question to answer. Consent can’t be given under duress, and the rate of abuse in polygamous marriages is astoundingly high. If there was some magical way that the state could verify that everyone is consenting with a true option to say no without their life being ruined, that would be great. However having the state decide who can marry would go really poorly at some point. As a result, I think we’re left with the western status quo where we throw the baby out with the bath water and ban the whole thing. It’s kinda like how some people can be responsible handgun owners but others are murderers and the potential downsides are great enough that nobody gets the privilege. Same for selling cocaine.

I honestly don’t understand what you’re asking of me. Women having equal rights is a binary thing, they either do or don’t.

I answered your question of if my objection was about the subjugation of women, and I pointed out how subjugating women is the problem.

Agreed. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

Pretty abusive, isn’t it?

Based on one comment? You’re pulling that out of your ass because confronting your own inconsistencies makes you uncomfortable. Feel free to stalk my comment history of you want.

Also way to tell on yourself that you don’t respect women’s rights.

Call me whatever you want, I believe women should have equal rights.

That’s not the point.

Then, according to that logic, not a single person who believes in a mainstream/typical religion is consenting to it, because many families and communities will shun you if you leave their religion.

Yep! It’s truly horrific, isn’t it? If there is an omnipotent god, why do the teachings need to be spread by force an violence by humans? That doesn’t seem very omnipotent to me…