vvilld

Yes, of course it is.

Like any privilege, having 'pretty privilege' doesn't mean your life isn't difficult or that you don't have problems. It just means that your looks aren't one of the things contributing to those problems/difficulties.

Well, whatever it is, when I was a toddler my parents mentioned to my pediatrician that I loved eating hot peppers (apparently I would just grab them off the shelf in the grocery store and chow down. It was a bit of a problem for my mom because I wouldn't wait for her to pay, or so goes the story she likes to tell). The doctor told my parents that I don't have receptors to detect capsacin. I haven't had it independently checked as an adult. Maybe they were mistaken or my parents mis-remembered what they were told.

Regardless, I don't think I've ever experienced what you refer to as feeling like getting maced while sneezing or laughing. I haven't been directly maced before, but I have been in a crowd that got pepper sprayed. It burned the fuck out of my eyes and lungs, but I didn't notice it anywhere else.

One of their commandments is to not "take the Lord's name in vain". Modern Christians have interpreted this to mean not using the word 'god' as an interjection or swear. What was actually meant by it was to not use god as a justification for things that do not comport with god's religious teachings. You know, like claiming god says you should hate trans people, or that god has chosen you personally to be in charge of everyone. You know, the exact thing Christians do all the fucking time.

It is, in fact, possible to quite smoking. I was a regular smoker for a decade. My fiancee asked me to quit, so I did. Haven't had a cigarette or vape since. That was over a decade ago.

Yes, it's difficult, and not everyone is able to quit as easily as I did. But don't pretend like it's impossible to quit.

Because second-hand smoke doesn't exist...

Second hand smoke isn't a biohazard? It literally causes cancer...

I'd argue the hate come after the "practical" reasoning. They target a group for various reasons (as a scapegoat, to create the illusion of progress, to steal resources, etc) then create an intellectual framework to justify their targeting of the group. The hatred comes out of that justification.

Rather than "god damn" I usually say "gods damn". I'm not religious at all, but I'd rather someone mistake me for a polytheistic pagan than a Christian.

My mouth doesn't have the receptors to detect capsacin, the chemical that makes spicy food burn/hot. I can eat the spiciest food imaginable and it will not burn my mouth at all.

That said, those receptors exist in other parts of my body. Very often while I'm sitting on the toilet I'll realize my dinner the previous night was particularly spicy.

Also, after more than 1/3 of a century of eating spicy food indiscriminately, my stomach lining has taken quite the beating.

There were MASSIVE anti-Vietnam war protests at the time. Far more massive than anything we've seen since. And they did recognize the hypocrisy in calling it a "police action" when it was obviously a war.

You do not understand anarchism in the slightest. You are imagining some Hobbsian hellscape out of a disaster movie, which is completely counter to human nature.

So your argument is that the only way to get people to live together is under the constant threat of violence from the state?