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OK, maybe some people did. Yes, let's not go there.

Who said that?

@"unenlightened" Put it another way, I want harsher punishments and more awareness within the context of a liberal society while recognizing the probl...

It's not a mitigating factor at all or an excuse. Who says it was? Have I not been obvious enough from the start that I have no sympathy for HW and hi...

Sure, I don't disagree with that or with all of Agu's cultural criticisms. I just see biology as playing a bigger role than he does and am skeptical o...

That would be biology. Dominance hierarchies are natural in primates like us (and many other species) and the main reason to be on the top is access t...

Fixed leathery bulldog snarl, remember? @"jamalrob"'s the one with the pretty mouth. (You may wish to leave the room a this point @"Posty McPostface")...

It's probably safer to let @"Hanover" loose here than on the goats on the side of whatever mountain he lives on. If it really bothers you though, just...

Another positive change would be to get people to stop voting for sexual predators for President. It sends a horrible message when the punishment for ...

Save it for the locker room, Donald.

I should note there are some honourable exceptions. A few writers on redstate.com (no bastion of liberalism!), for example, have been very critical of...

That's up to him not me! Anyway, I'll pick up this convo again tomorrow.

OK, fair enough, but I would have thought it obvious that seeing as many liberals (at least those old enough) voted for Clinton or at least supported ...

I doubt anyone else is confused but if you want to go around scratching your head about stuff everyone else understands, feel free.

Political partisanship. That's the third time I've answered. Why is it difficult for you?

The root cause is biology. Chinese emperors knew that. Hence Eunuchs.

Stop confusing causation and correlation. Even as a joke.

I'm not against you in principle by the way, Agu. In fact, I'm on your side but you are not demonstrating how power and desire won't work to achieve t...

The same reason the right gives Trump a pass. Political partisanship. I already explained that.

But this seems laughable. As if those in power won't still be sexually corrupt.

Not at all. I think @"unenlightened" was more taking that position, but of course he can speak for himself. I came to the conversation this time to ra...

You refute yourself. Hollywood becomes irrelevant. The behaviour remains regardless. If it's not one cultural stimulus, it's another. So what then?

Haha. You know if I didn't have sisters I think I really would be a worse person.

Damn you. That's gerrymandering.

OK, I was able to do it and didn't.

Yes, and some of us have actual experience of being in that situation as I have.

I don't know what you think I said to be honest, Wos. You need to quote me. If you think HW was some kind of victim of his position though, no, I disa...

Non-sequitur.

Yes, but in my view you tend to overestimate their influence and underestimate our natural tendency towards "evil" or "sin", or whatever you want to c...

Non-sequitur. Time to get out your references.

Did Attila the Hun need high heels to turn him on. Give me a break.

You don't think there were Trumps and Clintons before Hollywood? There are Trumps and Clintons in chimp tribes, Agu, not to mention throughout human h...

Desire and the power to satisfy it.

Hollywood is a correlate not a cause in my view. The cause is deeper. With or without Hollywood, power will have its way.

Again, I don't hear you making these excuses for Clinton. Who taught him? Who cares? They did it. They're responsible.

Maybe but I don't think a long story is necessary here as it comes across like a politically motivated attempt at mitigation. They are both scumbags a...

Nope, rape can never be justified, retroactively or not. Asking a student out and raping someone are two entirely different categories of moral transg...

There you go answering @"fishfry"'s question for him. The reason liberals ignore the scumbaggery of Clinton and conservatives make excuses for the scu...

I don't accept it's a fair analogy Rape in never consensual by definition. It's not impossible though that a student would fall in love with her profe...

(Note that we've gone several pages of posts with no-one mentioning the fact that the President is an admitted sexual harasser of women, a disgusting ...

Same reason Trump gets a pass from conservatives. I don't see how it's difficult to understand.

Paradise island is surrounded by shark-infested waters. But we need a few wild boars in the jungle to keep things interesting. Just don't break Piggy'...

But it is as you've recognized. It's kind of paradoxical though. These sorts of situations tend to be retroactively justified. So, a professor who end...

That's about where we are. Clearly we allow posts and OPs that question or do not adhere to academic orthodoxy, but academic norms are also clearly re...

You think I didn't know that? Wow. I genuinely had no idea that you'd feel the need to explain yourself like that you grammar Nazi. See this and this!...

I agree. It's a hit piece. It's as easy to caricature Dawkins as it is to caricature religion and its adherents. His doing the latter doesn't justify ...

"Word of warning, I'm never serious. Except when I am. (Which is never)." Then again maybe @"Michael" was joking too. Who knows how deep the rabbit ho...

/uploads/resized/files/h3/bi6npuu1rarjgehh.png Didn't have Gulag Archipelago on Kindle. This is pretty good though. Also got a sample of Street's Oyam...

Lol

How do you divide your mice up among your owlets, oh wise one? (I almost wrote "omlettes". Maybe later).