Quite WES. How dare they enact their right to be in the same queue as you and make their perfectly lawful purchase. The next time I'm in the queue at Costa, just as I reach the till I'll scan the queue behind me and holler "any super entitled faux yanqui canuck knobheads wanna jump in before me here?"
Northern Monkey ... who can't upload a bleeding Avatar
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Oh, I think advances of our understanding of brain chemistry and the extent to which we are genetically pre-determined to be a certain way is going to make an absolute mess of notions or law, crime and punishment in years to come. After all, how do we fairly punish someone who is born with abnormal levels of aggression for being abnormally aggressive?
Well our ethical framework is related to our legal one. THere is no denying that our collective view of something is influenced by its legality.
I have made a similar point on trips to Amsterdam on seeing friends openly going to prostitutes when they would never dream of doing so at home. As though the law somehow validates the process and makes it more morally acceptable.
I am not sure the different approach to the incident free/dead kid scenario is completely irrational. In one instance you have broken the law but nothing has happened. In the other you have killed a kid. If you wish to show that a certain behaviour is likely to cause a specific effect it is far easier to do so if it actually happens. I would argue the reaction to the dead kid is not essentially a moral one, its a reaction to the fact that you have killed a kid.