Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FFS, how we all really gotten so self-righteous that we will completely right off someone who works for an organization we don't support? Our country is going to shit.

I mean if someone is content editor for Stormfront magazine or a web designer for ISIS fine, but something like tobacco or the NRA? Ridiculous.

And I am sure half your husband's work at law firms that represent these or other "horrible" organizations, but you are still happy to cash those checks.

+1000

This is such a typical DCUM bubble thread. And why Trump won.

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Anonymous wrote:NRA would cause me think we may not be very compatible

I would be polite and pleasant to a neighbor who worked for the NRA, but I could never befriend such a person. The NRA is responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in the US because of their relentless lobbying in opposition to gun control legislation, which would prevent gun ownership by people who shoot and kill children.

Every single employee of the NRA has blood on his or her hands. The choice to work there is just that, a choice. Gun ownership is not my choice, but if people want to hunt with guns, well, that's OK with me as long as the guns are used responsibly. Any other gun ownership is immoral and unconscionable. The NRA is a horrible, horrible organization, made worse by the revelation of its recent infiltration by Russians.

If your neighbor works for a tobacco company or an oil company, well, I'd keep my distance too, but I'm less horrified by either of those organizations, even though they kill people and ruin our environment with their products.

Anonymous wrote:A woman who refers to the man she lives with as her "partner" just moved in next door to me. I'm a friendly sort and want to like my new neighbors, but this really offends me. What if they are shacking up and aren't legally married? Should this be a friendship dealbreaker?

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Anonymous wrote:My partner and I just moved to a new house and we are eager to make new friends in the neighborhood. We met a nice couple, and it came out that one of them works at a company that most people would think is evil (think tobacco). I am having trouble seeing past that. Should that be a friendship deal breaker? Thanks.

The fact that you judge someone based on this says a lot about you OP. You're not worthy of their friendship. So them a favor and leave them alone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FFS, how we all really gotten so self-righteous that we will completely right off someone who works for an organization we don't support? Our country is going to shit.

I mean if someone is content editor for Stormfront magazine or a web designer for ISIS fine, but something like tobacco or the NRA? Ridiculous.

And I am sure half your husband's work at law firms that represent these or other "horrible" organizations, but you are still happy to cash those checks.

How are the things you described different than someone who works for something like Tobacco that kills hundreds of thousands of people a year? Tobacco has killed far more people than terrorism has or will.

If you find yourself suggesting that legal businesses are the moral equivalent of Nazis, or Isis, you really need stop and take a breath. Also, it may be helpful to (i) adjust your medication, and (ii) think back and try to discovery just what in your educational background went so horribly wrong that it destroyed your critical thinking mechanisms. JFC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My partner and I just moved to a new house and we are eager to make new friends in the neighborhood. We met a nice couple, and it came out that one of them works at a company that most people would think is evil (think tobacco). I am having trouble seeing past that. Should that be a friendship deal breaker? Thanks.

You are a citizen of the country that started myriads of bloodbath conflicts and revolutions in many countries, and drowned in blood Middle East and Yugoslavia using your tax dollars.
You are a citizen of the country that kills millions of innocent homeless animals each year in the municipal shelters for your convenience to walk the streets free of stray animals, and you pay for it with your tax money. And you are worried about someone working for tobacco industry? Take a look in the mirror, murderer.

Anonymous wrote:FFS, how we all really gotten so self-righteous that we will completely right off someone who works for an organization we don't support? Our country is going to shit.

I mean if someone is content editor for Stormfront magazine or a web designer for ISIS fine, but something like tobacco or the NRA? Ridiculous.

And I am sure half your husband's work at law firms that represent these or other "horrible" organizations, but you are still happy to cash those checks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FFS, how we all really gotten so self-righteous that we will completely right off someone who works for an organization we don't support? Our country is going to shit.

I mean if someone is content editor for Stormfront magazine or a web designer for ISIS fine, but something like tobacco or the NRA? Ridiculous.

And I am sure half your husband's work at law firms that represent these or other "horrible" organizations, but you are still happy to cash those checks.

How are the things you described different than someone who works for something like Tobacco that kills hundreds of thousands of people a year? Tobacco has killed far more people than terrorism has or will.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here again ... all of these responses have really helped give me some perspective. The friendship continues! Thanks.

How lucky your new friends are!

Anonymous wrote:OP here again ... all of these responses have really helped give me some perspective. The friendship continues! Thanks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NRA would cause me think we may not be very compatible

I would be polite and pleasant to a neighbor who worked for the NRA, but I could never befriend such a person. The NRA is responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in the US because of their relentless lobbying in opposition to gun control legislation, which would prevent gun ownership by people who shoot and kill children.

Every single employee of the NRA has blood on his or her hands. The choice to work there is just that, a choice. Gun ownership is not my choice, but if people want to hunt with guns, well, that's OK with me as long as the guns are used responsibly. Any other gun ownership is immoral and unconscionable. The NRA is a horrible, horrible organization, made worse by the revelation of its recent infiltration by Russians.

If your neighbor works for a tobacco company or an oil company, well, I'd keep my distance too, but I'm less horrified by either of those organizations, even though they kill people and ruin our environment with their products.