1ºWhat he did was horrible and the bail they set is laughable. I don’t understand why she went to his apartment, perhaps she was too trusting. There’s a lot of crazies out there and obviously he is one of them. People need to be cautious when using dating apps because I don’t know if participants are screened. If not, any lunatic can join and possibly kill their match. I don’t know what is wrong with some people, but we all need to be cognizant that not everyone has good intentions. I hope this young woman can recover not only physically but also mentally as this must have traumatized her.
2ºStephanie Bury Boone As an older Gen X woman I say he's correct. I agree with him. I grew up in a time before social media where the people you met where in your own neighourhood or school face to face. And you got to know each other by spending time together at school events or with the whole gang at the local bowling alley. We always had a friend to watch our back. And as a female I brought the guy home to meet my parents. The dance of dating has been lost on the younger gens. The goal should be to connect with another person not ordering a pizza. Swipe swipe
3ºValerie McCulloch Yeah the problem with that is go watch a reality show about prison. Then tell me you’re ready for decades in prison. That tends to keep people from doing what you claim you’d do even when this happens.
I prefer to give my daughter the knowledge to avoid things like this and the tools to defend herself so it doesn’t happen in the first place.
The people who hear “victim blaming” all their lives think if they walk into traffic and get hit by a car it’s something they’ll deal with later and figure out what caused it.
4ºLadies, stop going to a man’s house on the first date or second date or third date. Meet at a public place and don’t ever let anyone pick you up from your place. You meet men at a public place.. Unfortunately these type of stories are common. Which’s why you can’t go to a man’s house you just met online…. ALWAYS share your location with a friend or family when you’re going out on a date.. If someone hasn’t heard from you after your date they can start to look for you… We’re all looking for love & friendships but you have to always put your safety first.
5ºLakesha Beckwith eloquently said! Even as a guy when I go out on a date I tell my buddy, my sister or someone where I’m going.. I tell them the location and everything so if something happens they know where I was going and and who I was going to meet with. Meeting a stranger you met online is dangerous in so many ways.. I never said what that guy did was right or that she deserved what happened. But here I am defending myself because I’m asking people to use common sense when meeting up with strangers from the internet.
6ºDavid Montgomery
Dodge what now?
Bah, dodge the question of "small government" folks?
I don't believe they're done, David. How the hell am I going to answer as if you're correct, when you're just not.
Political seasons come and go. Whoever is in any given government now is going to have to run on promises later. I'd put real money on at least half of them running on "small government"
And peace activists—of which I am one—have been fighting against needless wars and WILL NOT BE GIVING UP anytime soon, no matter how much you want to believe they have.
Sometimes they've managed to stop things, sometimes they haven't. But as I answered from the get go on this: I don't know why the hell you're assuming the struggle is over. there will be future victories and future losses. But society WILL progress. As it does, and however clumsily.
It's outright weird that you appear to think it's over and you live in a war zone.
So the answer to your question is that your premise is faulty making your question only answerable by pointing out its flaws. I will. not. pretend. with you that either of those things are completed and losses.