Reply #52: got a question for you [View All]

[iverglas]

As just one example, you believe that a woman under attack who has reason to believe that she will suffer mere rape--as opposed to death or serious injury--has no right to use potentially deadly force to prevent rape. I have repeatedly pointed out that this position is self-contradictory--rape threatens STDs which can kill you as certainly as a knife or gun can. It is also mysogynistic, and primitive, and stupid.

An article about spitting on public conveyances, and sidewalks, and floors, was recently published in a paper I read.

A century ago, a great effort was made to dissuade people from spitting in public. At the time, the danger was the spread of tuberculosis. Reference was made in the article to a conviction that resulted in a fine of $5 (a large sum at the time) or a month in prison in the alternative.

These days, some pretty awful stuff can be spread by spit. (My two cats who died this month likely contracted feline leukemia that way, but fortunately I'm immune.) Swine flu is one. If my partner, a type I diabetic with other health problems as well, contracted swine flu, he would be at considerable risk of death. Within a very short time, not the years that a person can live with HIV, for instance.

If my partner had accosted the creep who deposited a coffee cup in our garden as we were waiting for the taxi to go to the vet yesterday afternoon, and said creep had confronted him and horked up a big one and pursed up his lips, would my partner have been justified in shooting him dead, by you?

Would it be "misogynistic, primitive, and stupid" to say "no"? Hey, would the fact that my partner is white and the guy in question was black (which was the case) make it racist for me to say that my partner would not have been justified in shooting him dead - or to say that he would have been justified in shooting him dead? Damn, that's a complicated one, eh? The guy in question was also older than my partner; I wonder where ageism might come into it?

Just curious.


But though you are perfectly willing to use me as an example in my absence, you lacked the character, integrity, intelligence, and human decency to defend your primitive and barbaric position when I personally challenged you.

Do google "narcissistic personality disorder".

Or just get over yourself. It's part of growing up.