thepianistfroggollum

Yes, that's how modern medicine works. Much of how the body functions, especially when it comes to the brain, is largely unknown. There are just an almost insurmountable amount of variables to control for.

For every drug that makes it to market, there are hundreds if not thousands of similar drugs that failed at some point in testing. No one knows the longterm effects of any drug in humans until humans have been taking it for a long time.

So, if two 13 year olds have sex, which one is the statutory rapist?

That's called rape by deception, and is illegal in at least some of the US.

You're making the mistake of applying the behavior of people today with the behavior of people over a decade from now.

Truly autonomous vehicles would fundamentally change the way the world views transportation, it will just take a while to get to that point.

By the time we get to a critical mass of self driving cars, it's very likely that owning cars won't be a thing outside of the wealthy.

The organizations that will be running the transportation services will have a vested interest in keeping as few vehicles in a fleet as possible, thus removing vehicles from the road (if we haven't reached that point by the time self driving cars are a real thing)

Also the idea that the people who couldn't otherwise own a car would suddenly have $50k+ to go out and buy an autonomous vehicle is silly.

I have no clue how you came to the conclusion that self driving cars would be more harmful to the environment than human driven ones, but even if the number of cars on the road remained the sane (it would actually drastically decrease), and even if all self driving cars were ICEs, vehicle emissions would still drastically stop.

If every car was self driving, then every car would know the position of every other car around it and be able to communicate to every other car. Traffic jams would cease to exist, and potentially even stopping at intersections would go away too.

But, the reality is that once self driving cars reach that critical mass, owning a car won't be a thing anymore. You'll pay a service to shuttle you around. Hell, if the service was a public utility then it would be trivial to set up ride sharing for a reduced rate. That would be what drastically decreases the amount of cars on the road.

Then that would be rape by deception. Does Canada not have that?

An important caveat is that she was not the first person seriously injured by the temperatures they were keeping the coffee at.

McD decided the money they were saving on free coffee refills was more important than injuring their customers, which is why the punitive damages were awarded.

The lady who got the money was just the one a judge actually paid attention to.

There's a very loud segment of conservatives that belive Trump is the second coming of Jesus, but it would be inaccurate to state that conservatives think that Trump is the second coming of Jesus.

Most developed countries have revenge porn laws which specifically cover this issue. It's strange to me that Canada doesn't.

It's ultimately an issue with single party consent laws. In many places only one person has to consent to being recorded, even if they're the person recording.

This is a good thing for many reasons, like recording your boss flagrantly violating labor laws and such, but I'm sure the issue is that there isn't a legal caveat for the sex tapes.

I am surprised that Canada doesn't have a separate revenge porn law like the US does, though.

I'm betting that we'll be able to clone organs before this is ever a truly viable option. It might be used as a stop gap until an organ is grown, but I seriously doubt it'll be a main course of treatment.

Manslaughter, by definition, is not murder. It's unintentionally causing the death of someone else.