Thanks Mate. I’m forever guilty of generalisation. Soz.

What exactly is the deterrent, anyway?

There were pickpockets working the crowd at public executions in London when theft was a capital offence.

The US is fucking barbaric.

All this debate about the best way to kill a fellow human being. I know that she was a piece of shit, but there is something twisted about the practice of state authorised execution. I don’t trust the state to have moral clarity on setting parking fines.

I am sincerely pleased that I am not a citizen of the United States, and I would imagine that Americans would find that circumstance mutually pleasing.

You weren’t ghosted, he told you that he wasn’t going forward.

Not to say that he probably wasn’t a jerk. But he plainly told you that he wasn’t interested in pursuing anything. That’s not ghosting.