30% of American men have tried AYNL sex. The other 70% have never been in jail.
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Depends what you mean by ‘cancelling’ someone.
Should somebody lose their job because of a bad taste joke shared between willing participants? Of course not - losing your job is not a social consequence. Wanna stop being friends with somebody because they say ■■■■■■ things? Go for it. Wanna verbally abuse them for it? Perhaps not the best course of action but ok.
You’re conflating the legal consequence of someone being sacked due to saying something, with the social crusade against someone to boycott them because of opposition to their comments/views.
Social consequence can often flow to legal consequence (and vice versa), sometimes unjustly. But also sometimes justly. The funny thing about free speech is it goes both ways.
Because some find that funny.
So there’s an example of being better, if you hear it, call it out as abhorrent which it is.
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If youre around people that find it funny, i suggest you find new people to be around.
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Many studies have proven that violent people have a disposition towards violence and that it is genetic, with environmental factors involved. Drugs and alcohol lower the inhibitions, but the violent streak is always there.
Remember the old show from the 50’s the Honeymooners?
Jackie Gleason’s line which always got the crowd laughing their heads off, was “One of these days, Alice, pow, right in the kisser”
People thought the threat of domestic violence was hilarious.
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most of american comedy for about 60 years was (still is) “god i fkng hate my wife”
because a lot of people think that jokes are endorsements
seriously
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I watched Married with Children a few weeks ago as my old man was going on about how great it was. Totally unwatchable. Its astounding how much things have changed (for the better) over the past 30 years.
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It’s not making it illegal, what I don’t like is it’s slamming it down our throats at every opportunity through the media.
Booze and gambling need to be regulated. Booze Sold in brown paper, perhaps by the government. Like cigarettes with no advertising and health warnings.
That and my 15 yr old nephew can tell me all the odds in football over the season and knows the “over beer” jingle(or what that stands for)
And that is ■■■■■■.
Totally agree that gambling and alcohol needs to be treated in the same way as smoking- ie deny it’s existence and make it as unsexy as possible.
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ThE oLd BaLl AnD cHaIn
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How so? The social boycott, silly as it might be, is your right. Voice your objection if you please. You have the right to tell others you’re offended. So yeah, it totally goes both ways.
Losing your job over a joke (few variables involved) is excessive. Clear difference.
Booze and gambling are regulated.
Maybe not as tightly as you would prefer.
Well done to the local MRA representative for, yet again, making a thread about actual violence and actual murder and deaths into a sob story about them.
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Super tightly regulated. I’d have government supplying alcohol outside of bars and pubs and ban political donations from industries which harm society. It’s as bad as taking money from big tobacco. Probably worse for the individual.
But really it’s the advertising. Alcohol and gambling shouldn’t be seen or heard. Like tobacco or the sex industry.
For sure it needs to be legalised, it’s not about being a wowser.
It was unwatchable when it was first on the telly.
While I reckon Alf Garnett was the Poms taking the p1ss out of themselves, Archie Bunker and Married with Children was real-life.
You want to take away all our fun.
Let’s ban watching footy live as well.