RE: Stupid People
I can't control who I feel sympathy for based on a category that I put them in.
Hmm. I wasn't aware that "stripper" was a category. It seems more like an outwardly visible activity to me. Another way of wording Tanya's sentence would be "I have very little sympathy for women who take their clothing off in front of strangers for money..." What's the difference between that and, "I have very little sympathy for people who smack themselves in the forehead with a baseball bat?" Stripping is an overt activity with consequences. Some of those consequences are unpleasant. That was Ann's (and Tanya's) point.
In those scenarios, aren't they encouraging the stupidity by acting stupid themselves?
I get it, if everyone around you is being stupid, it's perfectly excusable for you to be stupid as well. So these girls can be excused for taking their clothes off in front of a bunch of slobbering drunk college boys and getting snot-slinging drunk and crawling into a car with people they just met a couple of hours ago. And they get a pass because those college boys were slobbering and those island guys held open the door of their car. Just because the girls went along, there's no reason to characterize them as morally lazy or stupid. Why that would be holding them accountable for their actions and liberals can't have that, can they? Why, if everyone was held accountable for their actions, we wouldn't need liberals. And then...Oh...wait...is that a bad thing?
As an aside, Aruba may have all the ameneties that would make the average American teenager feel right at home, but they have, as we all have learned, a very, very different set of laws and legal customs. Your comment is disingenuous.
You're thinking of stupid people, not "Liberals," Bill Clinton, and Democrats.
There's a difference? Sorry, you pitched that one right across the strike zone. There was no way I was going to pass it up.
Hmm. I wasn't aware that "stripper" was a category. It seems more like an outwardly visible activity to me. Another way of wording Tanya's sentence would be "I have very little sympathy for women who take their clothing off in front of strangers for money..." What's the difference between that and, "I have very little sympathy for people who smack themselves in the forehead with a baseball bat?" Stripping is an overt activity with consequences. Some of those consequences are unpleasant. That was Ann's (and Tanya's) point.
In those scenarios, aren't they encouraging the stupidity by acting stupid themselves?
I get it, if everyone around you is being stupid, it's perfectly excusable for you to be stupid as well. So these girls can be excused for taking their clothes off in front of a bunch of slobbering drunk college boys and getting snot-slinging drunk and crawling into a car with people they just met a couple of hours ago. And they get a pass because those college boys were slobbering and those island guys held open the door of their car. Just because the girls went along, there's no reason to characterize them as morally lazy or stupid. Why that would be holding them accountable for their actions and liberals can't have that, can they? Why, if everyone was held accountable for their actions, we wouldn't need liberals. And then...Oh...wait...is that a bad thing?
As an aside, Aruba may have all the ameneties that would make the average American teenager feel right at home, but they have, as we all have learned, a very, very different set of laws and legal customs. Your comment is disingenuous.
You're thinking of stupid people, not "Liberals," Bill Clinton, and Democrats.
There's a difference? Sorry, you pitched that one right across the strike zone. There was no way I was going to pass it up.
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