I don't even grant users of judicial activism as a term any level of respect or historical context. It's VASTLY used in the United States by individuals who not only have no understanding of the differences between a pure Democracy and a Democratic Republic but a deeply flawed concept of what...
And point of fact, it also hurts military enlistees. I saw a lot of people who had grown up their whole lives just wanting to be a Marine. Then they joined and they were so stunned by the way things were as far as Marines treating other Marines that they opted out of continued service.
As a former active duty Marine. Some of us? Yes. All of us? No. But I'd think that's a little obvious.
Unfortunately romanticized ideas about the military also means that issues like sexual harassment and other excesses by military figures often gets a blind eye from the public and that has to...
To some extent I turn a deaf ear towards a lot of this. There are a lot of people whose intentions are good but are monumentally ignorant. While I don't see Obama being all gung ho to push national gay marriage. I still applaud the efforts on fronts such as DOMA. I tend to find a large number of...
No. You bashed organizing in general so actually yeah it does apply. Just because you have a problem with some of the potential downsides of organizing does not mean that that organization on any level is a bad thing. If you don't want a ridiculous argument called out. Don't make a ridiculous...
Right because indulging in vices draws a direct line to one having a constant emotional state of unmitigated hate and anger. To quote South Park Johnny Cochran. "That does not...make....sense!" And frankly people can idolize people for all sorts of silly reasons. This does not characterize all...
By this conception of angry, EVERYONE is angry. People have a right to be civic individuals and help do things like vote in people who mirror their values and vote for policies they like and against those they don't like. Angry does not equal bad. Anecdotal most of the atheists I know are the, I...
Families=human organization. Nomadic societies=human organization, settled agricultural civilizations=human organization. Need I go on? People not being perfect as an excuse to not organize is moronic.