I was making a funny. Or maybe a not-so-funny. The underlying meaning was that you produced ample reason why people flaunting their religiosity rubs you the wrong way.
Same people who do it now.
You think there'll be an explosion of hard drug use? Hasn't been the case in countries that have decriminalized or legalized 'em.
Maybe Canadians're just stupider, on average.
Can be. You think the government has the just authority to tell you what you can and can't put into your body?
Or do you just want users dying from overdoses and fentanyl-laced street drugs?
Has the Senate ever really done much? Our Senate has a real role in legislation, the British House of Lords has maybe one dull tooth left.
Where would you put the Canadian Senate on that scale?
Thank you for "It's a scale." As they also say, "A matter of degree, not of kind." Let us divide the world of non-prescription mood altering chemicals into convenient categories:
1. Beer/wine/other drinks below 20% alcohol.
2. Spirits and other drinks 20% or more alcohol.
3...
Well, at least she went with argumentum ad populum instead of argumentum ad antiquatam.
The answer, of course, is your mama's old "If everybody jumped off a bridge. . ."
I imagine that's why "Every man thinks less of himself for not having been a soldier." --Samuel Johnson
Though the protective instinct has to be stretched pretty far to cover modern soldiery.
I suspect the oppression of women has a less instinctual origin. I agree the protective part is...
Damn straight! Got me a flu shot in '72, and I still get the flu most every year.
Clearly the Nixon gummint's just trying to TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM and ENSLAVE ME!
Now that I'm a mite long in the tooth to be a child sex slave. . .
Question: Why does Da Meeja characterize efforts to enter into a contract to buy goods as "pleading" and "begging?"
Seems to me Da Meeja is all in on the surlification of society.
"Likely?" What are you, some kinda librul Commie soshulist wokester? She only saved them other kids to make 'em sex slaves for Hillary! Bet your last loonie on it!