Continuing Confusion Concerning Consent

I'm not sure why this needs to be explained to adults, but based on the utter tripe I've seen on Facebook for the past week, it clearly does.

Incidentally, this assumes said tripe was posted because you really don't get this concept, not because you were deliberately minimizing despicable statements and attitudes simply for political reasons.  I can't even deal rationally with that possibility.

So here you go.  Two simple rules:

Survivor Bias Makes Fools of Us All

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility.

We’ve all seen the Facebook memes:

“Share if you rode in the back of a truck as a kid and didn’t die!”

“Like if you played in a spent nuclear fuel pool as a kid and turned out fine!”

“Who else rode their bike without a helmet as a kid?”

(Okay, I may have made one of those up.  And yet it’s way safer than you probably think.)

The Meaning of Symbols, Again

At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.

There's a lot (like, a LOT) that's been said already about the National Anthem protests this year that were started (or at least made known and popular) by Colin Kaepernick.  It's not my intent here to rehash that; I’m much more interested in the reactions.  To wit: