Michael, my belief is that all commercial establishments should have to accept as a customer anybody who can pay and that the prices should be the same for everyone. I don't believe that any commercial business should be a safe haven for any particular community. A business could cater to a particular community but it can't deny its services to anybody with money. If a scantily clad woman wants to buy meat from kosher butcher fir supper than the kosher butcher must sell her the meat.
See it as the same drive for the desegregation of commercial businesses. On one level you could say why bother when you could go to a business friendly to you. At the same time, it's not the point. People should not be excluded from a business because of an innate characteristic. If they could pay, they should be able to patronize. It's a fight against segregating the LBGT community.
I think that part of what's makes us human is our ability to contemplate whether or not something is moral or immoral, good or bad. These things are present in other animals but not to our extent. Considering that the ability to be moral is one of the things that makes us human than it would be better to be killed by a villain than to be a villain. The villain has made a choice not to follow one of the best parts of being human.
I can't see Gotham as Philly. Philly doesn't have the right reputation. I can see Gotham as Chicago, which kind of has the same reputation but the wrong geographical feel.
I think this is why why Marvel made a wise decision when they decided to use real world geography as much as possible.
Japanese courts have a legal backlog that makes our legal backlog look like nothing. Several years ago the Times ran articles as bout the lack of judicial candidates because not many young Japanese people aspire to the bar.
Florida is really tacky place besides Key West. I like other parts of the South like Louisville or New Orleans. They just need to be more walkable and have better transit.
I think the problem with Southern pride is that the South has a stronger regional identity than any other part of the United States. We talk about the North East or the West but in every other region local pride is more important than regional pride. I identify as a New Yorker, not as a North Easterner. Southerners seem to identify more by region than locality.
ND, in law school I never heard any gossip of a person being an escort to pay for as school or to even help with payments. I know a lot of professionals and never heard anything like that happening. The sheer amount of studying you need to do and the costs kind of prevent these things.
Yes, I agree with this. I'm a bit of an antiquarian but I think that a lot of institutions hurt themselves by thinking that they must be modern and up to date to be relevant. A lot of value can be found in the old to and many things are fine the way they are. I like things that are true to themselves.
Kim, that's why I can't go to rallies and demonstrations. I listen too closely to the speakers and pay too much attention to the signs. I find that I can't keep the constant applause up.
Is the weeding out of students in the bottom third of each year even enforceable? I imagine that a lot of them are going to want a refund, especially if they used loans to pay for their legal education and have to pay them back on a more ordinary salary.
I'm also unsure of the specialty degree. What I do think non-profits law schools should do is focus on preparing their students for less glamorous legal work as ND pointed out happened in the past.
A lot of people, even if they are intelligent, really don't put to much thought into the things they support. They have enough problems in their life and most people aren't fond of abstract thought. I've talked with people I agree with and still felt a bit ashamed on hoe they reach their conclusions.
Confederate leadership was dealt with very gently. Many of them were guilty of treason and could be convicted of such and hanged. Lots of governments, including the United States government, inflicted a lot worse punishment for less. What would have happened if the Confederate leadership was charged with treason?
Russel, see my comments above. There are seemingly a lot of people who like sex so much that they simply get when they can and damn the consequences. I suspect that the number of people who watch porn at work is higher than you think. I've heard a lot of tales of office sex in the legal community that isn't exactly professional. I'm honest enough to admit that I'm a little jealous at the people who can indulge in these things but I also like being in control.
One thing that really and constantly surprises me is what people are willing to do to get sex. I keep hearing these stories in the media or among friends in real life and all I can think is about the potential problems that happen after you get caught. Maybe I'm just cautious but I can't bring myself to do these foolish things simply for the possibility of sex.
I'm really not all that surprised about your preferred version of WWII. Allowing Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire any sort of victory would have been a disaster for the entire world. The suffering caused would be immense and the lives lost countless.
I disagree very strongly with the first paragraph. A lot of people born into wealthy, first-world democracies still live lives of unimaginable pain for a wide variety of reasons. Its not very moral to down play the suffering endured by these people. Its real to them even if somebody from a less prosperous place would do anything to trade places ith them and thats good enough reason for sympathy and empathy for me.
That being said, I can see value with instituting two-years of civillian or military national service for everybody. It can be used to teach skills, bring people of different backgrounds together, increase societal cohesian, and maybe even install some civic virtue. The problem with the United States is that a lot of people are going to oppose it for various reasons and that the number of young people we have is so large that we really don't have enough meaningful work for all of them for two years.
On “Religious Liberty Means Religious Privilege”
Michael, my belief is that all commercial establishments should have to accept as a customer anybody who can pay and that the prices should be the same for everyone. I don't believe that any commercial business should be a safe haven for any particular community. A business could cater to a particular community but it can't deny its services to anybody with money. If a scantily clad woman wants to buy meat from kosher butcher fir supper than the kosher butcher must sell her the meat.
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Christianity is the most widespread and least widespread religion at the same time.
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See it as the same drive for the desegregation of commercial businesses. On one level you could say why bother when you could go to a business friendly to you. At the same time, it's not the point. People should not be excluded from a business because of an innate characteristic. If they could pay, they should be able to patronize. It's a fight against segregating the LBGT community.
On “Beyond Redemption”
I think that part of what's makes us human is our ability to contemplate whether or not something is moral or immoral, good or bad. These things are present in other animals but not to our extent. Considering that the ability to be moral is one of the things that makes us human than it would be better to be killed by a villain than to be a villain. The villain has made a choice not to follow one of the best parts of being human.
On “Suck on That, Everywhere Else!”
I can't see Gotham as Philly. Philly doesn't have the right reputation. I can see Gotham as Chicago, which kind of has the same reputation but the wrong geographical feel.
I think this is why why Marvel made a wise decision when they decided to use real world geography as much as possible.
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Where do all the people come from? At lest NJ has enough people to at east theoretically house a major city. Delaware does not.
Placing Metropolis in Delaware makes no sense. The city always had a Mid West feel to it. A city surrounded by prairie.
On “Hacking The Legal Academy”
Japanese courts have a legal backlog that makes our legal backlog look like nothing. Several years ago the Times ran articles as bout the lack of judicial candidates because not many young Japanese people aspire to the bar.
On “The Southern Problem”
Florida is really tacky place besides Key West. I like other parts of the South like Louisville or New Orleans. They just need to be more walkable and have better transit.
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Appalachia is the only other region besides the South with a really distinct regional identity. A large part of Appalachia is in the South though.
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I think the problem with Southern pride is that the South has a stronger regional identity than any other part of the United States. We talk about the North East or the West but in every other region local pride is more important than regional pride. I identify as a New Yorker, not as a North Easterner. Southerners seem to identify more by region than locality.
On “A Risk Manager’s Take on Anthony Weiner”
ND, in law school I never heard any gossip of a person being an escort to pay for as school or to even help with payments. I know a lot of professionals and never heard anything like that happening. The sheer amount of studying you need to do and the costs kind of prevent these things.
On “Cultural Institutions in Flux”
Yes, I agree with this. I'm a bit of an antiquarian but I think that a lot of institutions hurt themselves by thinking that they must be modern and up to date to be relevant. A lot of value can be found in the old to and many things are fine the way they are. I like things that are true to themselves.
On “Burning the Stars and Bars, Again.”
Kim, that's why I can't go to rallies and demonstrations. I listen too closely to the speakers and pay too much attention to the signs. I find that I can't keep the constant applause up.
On “Hacking The Legal Academy”
Is the weeding out of students in the bottom third of each year even enforceable? I imagine that a lot of them are going to want a refund, especially if they used loans to pay for their legal education and have to pay them back on a more ordinary salary.
I'm also unsure of the specialty degree. What I do think non-profits law schools should do is focus on preparing their students for less glamorous legal work as ND pointed out happened in the past.
On “Burning the Stars and Bars, Again.”
A lot of people, even if they are intelligent, really don't put to much thought into the things they support. They have enough problems in their life and most people aren't fond of abstract thought. I've talked with people I agree with and still felt a bit ashamed on hoe they reach their conclusions.
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Confederate leadership was dealt with very gently. Many of them were guilty of treason and could be convicted of such and hanged. Lots of governments, including the United States government, inflicted a lot worse punishment for less. What would have happened if the Confederate leadership was charged with treason?
On “A Risk Manager’s Take on Anthony Weiner”
Russel, see my comments above. There are seemingly a lot of people who like sex so much that they simply get when they can and damn the consequences. I suspect that the number of people who watch porn at work is higher than you think. I've heard a lot of tales of office sex in the legal community that isn't exactly professional. I'm honest enough to admit that I'm a little jealous at the people who can indulge in these things but I also like being in control.
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One thing that really and constantly surprises me is what people are willing to do to get sex. I keep hearing these stories in the media or among friends in real life and all I can think is about the potential problems that happen after you get caught. Maybe I'm just cautious but I can't bring myself to do these foolish things simply for the possibility of sex.
On “Stupid Tuesday questions, Jaybird edition”
My first world problem is when I can't find a streaming 've tree sion of an old movie I want to see and have to track down a DVD.
On “Carpets and Rugs, Dogs and Rugrats”
When did this become Logan's Run?
On “In Service To The State”
I apologize for my intemperate response.
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I'm really not all that surprised about your preferred version of WWII. Allowing Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire any sort of victory would have been a disaster for the entire world. The suffering caused would be immense and the lives lost countless.
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I disagree very strongly with the first paragraph. A lot of people born into wealthy, first-world democracies still live lives of unimaginable pain for a wide variety of reasons. Its not very moral to down play the suffering endured by these people. Its real to them even if somebody from a less prosperous place would do anything to trade places ith them and thats good enough reason for sympathy and empathy for me.
That being said, I can see value with instituting two-years of civillian or military national service for everybody. It can be used to teach skills, bring people of different backgrounds together, increase societal cohesian, and maybe even install some civic virtue. The problem with the United States is that a lot of people are going to oppose it for various reasons and that the number of young people we have is so large that we really don't have enough meaningful work for all of them for two years.
On “Liz Cheney: We’ll Meet Again”
High.
On “Ask Kazzy #3”
Yes.
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