Con Behavior: Clues for Free

[rm]

The following is a list of things I should never, ever have to say. As someone who attends many, many cons for professional and personal reasons, it should be noted that I, in fact, almost never have to say them.

Yet, every single one of the issues raised below transpired at this year's Lunacon (either to me directly or as reported to me by

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[kremmen]

The argument appears to me to be that if the government is capable of making arbitrary laws which are morally offensive, it is therefore capable of making arbitrary laws about an issue which is less important. That argument is logical, whereas an argument concerning an issue of similar triviality would not necessarily hold. I don't see it as inherently trivialising the other issue.

I do have a theory as to why America is so obsessed with bare feet. American sheeple are particularly good at a form of logic which goes "I do X; any proper person who can afford to do X, will; anyone who doesn't is a member of an underclass which we don't want to associate with". There are heaps of people in LA who believe that the only people who catch public transport are those who can't afford a car. It's not a valid lifestyle choice to catch the bus, it's because you are either poor or stupid, and probably both. Likewise, the implicit assumption is that everyone wants to wear shoes and that those who don't are either non-conformists or evil homeless people who can't afford them, and we don't want any of those types around, so we'll throw a few more arbitrary barriers in their way.