They used to not have the right to marry in the US, and many people advocate for that to return. In some places on this planet, they don’t get the right to live.

There is no one even advocating to take rights away from straight people, let alone beheading them.

I found this a bit confusing, but I think the core of this is really that Waffle House staff don’t get a choice on whether or not they buy a meal during their shift. Is that right?

I kind of got that gist from the article, but nothing super clear. It said that employees pay for the meal whether they eat it or not, which if you ordered food and didn’t eat it, that’s kinda on you. I think it should be saying that they are charged for the meal whether they ordered it or not, if that’s what is happening.

Define “engineer” in a way that accurately describes what you think is an “engineer” while simultaneously excluding software engineers.

No, I don’t think I will. I asked you a direct question, if you will retract your statement of “no one can convince me” and you ignored the question. You can’t even acknowledge the one thing that I’ve been calling you out on after I’ve repeatedly demonstrated the problem to you.

I don’t think you will engage honestly so I have no interest in continuing a conversation.

“you can’t convince me” doesn’t sound like an invitation to debate. It sounds like a warning that debating that topic with you would be a waste of time because you won’t listen anyway.

I can provide my justification for believing that voting for a 3rd party is a waste of a vote. Are you actually willing to be convinced if a sufficient argument is presented? I.e. are you retracting your “you can’t convince me” statement? If not, I’m not going to waste my time trying to convince the unconvinceable.

You are keeping yourself from growing as a person because you would rather block your ears than consider another person’s perspective.

If you care about making good decisions, you should want to hear other perspectives and make (or revise) your decisions with as much information as possible. Instead, you’ve made up your mind with a bit of information, and refuse to hear more. Science, for example, adjust it’s views based on what is observed. You are refusing to observe so that your current believe can be preserved.

It’s not even about wanting to “vote D”, I don’t really care about that. It’s about the intellectual dishonesty and laziness of being unwilling to ever change your mind about something to the extent that you push away anything that might make you stop being so lazy and dishonest.

You know you are being closed minded and irrational when you say “no one is going to convince me of ____”.

Way to keep yourself from growing as a person and learning new things!