While in principle, I don’t disagree. If you’re impaired, you shouldn’t drive. I lost a parent after they were hit by a drunk driver.

However, there are monstrously different amounts of impairment. You have reaction times and motor skills, decision making and judgement, awareness and attention.

Implying any type of impairment to be an unequivocal “no” to driving is short sighted, in my opinion. It’s the easy argument to point at any mind-altering substance: caffeine, tobacco, or antidepressants could be classified an impaired driver.

It’s also worth pointing out that even different emotions could dramatically alter driving performance. Not that we would ever think about restrictions on crying while driving.

I mean, he was speaking at the Black Conservative Federation. It’s sorta relevant just given the venue.

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Is this for real?

There’s no reason that guilt would be absent from helpinghelp a specific person in need (like your struggling mother example). Plenty of people feel guilty taking handouts and will outright refuse help when they might need it.

As for the drive thru thing, I think you might be talking about something different than what I’ve seen/done, which is just paying for your own meal and the people behind you. There isn’t any expectation for them to continue some chain, and in many ways it’s a bit of an empty gesture (they are just taking that first person’s goodwill and passing it to the next in line).

My interpretation of paying it forward is the premise of receiving something when you’re in need, then, when you’re able, to give something back. Not to the one who helped you, as that would be repaying a debt.

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This amuses me

I would imagine the blanket statute to refer to is something like reckless endangerment, or perhaps more likely would be the firearms themselves being unlicensed.

Additionally, if I shot at someone who was wearing a bulletproof vest, it still would be attempted murder. If they asked me to shoot at them, it still would continue to be attempted murder (“no judge, they asked me to shoot them and I missed”).

I mean, even if someone explicitly asked for you to kill them, in writing, notarized, and all that legal jazz, then you’re getting into the realm of assisted suicide and that lovely grey area of morality. Though I believe it’s still illegal throughout the US.

I guess I’m out of the loop. I’m definitely biased, but I would be very surprised to hear that Jack Black did anything that would warrant my skepticism.

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Oh geez, better be careful making controversial statements like that.

Curious as to why that would be the case. Unless people are starting videos, letting them buffer, then reloading and doing it again.

It should be the same amount of bandwidth, otherwise, right?

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On first glance, this was so clearly a beautiful render of a bad Minecraft landscape generation

Not gonna lie, that’s some crazy decent editing for a joke

In the same way that watching porn on public transit is a social no-no

My criteria would entirely allow for early “soft” transitions as you call them. Hormone therapy is significantly less invasive than any type of surgery you could undergo, as well as being similarly “reversible” like a vasectomy. I would have a similar stance to a child making a monumental choice to fully transition. Beginning on the path of a transition is much different than leaping to the final step.

My concerns typically would lie in the sense of manufactured risk when lower risk options are readily available and effective. Condoms are inexpensive, especially when you’re comparing to a surgical procedure. Condoms have a reasonably good efficacy when properly used, and is increased significantly when used alongside other contraceptives (not to mention the additional benefits of lowering risk of STIs/STDs).

And just as an added question for you, if these surgeries were not reversible at all, would your views on this change?

We can leave the question of legality vs morality of the subject to the side.

I think you may have misunderstood some of what they were getting at.

To make a bad equivalency: would you have any reservations with someone younger than 18 choosing to have a vasectomy/tubes tied? What about 16? 13?

At some point we are going to agree that making that permanent¹ life choice isn’t a good idea as they just simply aren’t mature enough.

What the person you’re responding to is trying to get at, I think, is that many of these preferences or desires can easily change in your formative years as a young adult (18-25 for full frontal lobe development, I believe).

¹I am aware that vasectomies and tubal ligations can be reversed, but that’s not something you would want to be relying on with these choices. Similar to how you don’t plan to be able to have a tattoo removed a few years down the line when you decide you don’t like it.

My only issue with Firefox is some extensions get a little fussy in-between updates, but it seems to be a Linux issue more than a Firefox one.

And my problem is most definitely a skill issue.