And for me, all the spanking and beatings just taught me how to hide my behavior and make me fearful of my own mother.

An aquantiance of mine with a toddler truly believes that the only way to effectively discipline a child is through physical punishment because that's what her dad did. If her kid (who is the best, most good natured child I've ever seen) doesn't do something on the first try, her mother believes that a quick smack on the face will teach her. The only thing stopping her is her sister, who does not let that kid be hit.

The basics are broken.

Insurance policies are huge and complicated. And, more to point, it doesn't matter if you understand it, because you're stuck with it. My employer only offer two insurance policies that both equally suck and are equally expensive.

It's not fine print, it's a feature of health insurance. I once got in a minor fender bender and my employer sponsored insurance, which required me to go to the ER in case I had any major injuries that I could claim later, covered 0 percent of it. It would have actually been cheaper for me to pay it out of pocket, but because the police were involved and my car insurance reported it to my health insurance, I had to use them. 1200 bucks and a 9 hour wait in an emergency room to be told that i have a sprained wrist.

A lot of cities don't allow that. Rent is rent and deposit is deposit.

It probably was a joke to them because they have no common sense or self awareness. It's a good policy, as an adult and a human being, to not take pictures of you doing Nazi salutes in the uniform of state employer.

Does the Mexica not being absolute saints make what the Spanish did some how less atrocious? Alternatively, there is the Black Myth that says that the Spanish conquest wasn't as bad as is traditionally portrayed.

You're right, "right time" was the wrong phrase. All I meant was that the timing couldn't have been better for the Europeans.

That's sounds an awful like you're justifying what they did by saying that the other side did bad stuff too. The Europeans came at just the right time on the down slope of the Mexica empire.

What's your point?

It is a confusing thing, that is for sure.

No, that's libertarian behavior, not traditional neoconservative or, more accurately, neo-liberal. Libertarians are definitely on the right side of the political spectrum; nobody would call Ron Paul or Gary Johnson a liberal.

Lol "Chinaman." Jesus dude...