**** you and die!

Frankly, the thing I am most surprised about is the existence of useless weblogs that stir up useless arguments that will not matter in 50 years when social standards, standards, and opinions change, like they do every half century or so.

Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but when you decide to insult others for expressing their ideas, you cross the line.

State your opinion respectfully, get the **** off this page, and live your own life.

But your claim of religious protection under the Constitution is rather laughable, because, well, as it should be OBVIOUS to anyone who runs around spouting off about the Constitution, that document serves to protect people from the GOVERNMENT, not from private business.

One could argue, given the absurd level of corruption in business these days (or at least Big Business), that we perhaps need an additional Constitution for the commercial sector that essentially enforces what are normally called ETHICS.

But the one drafted 230+ years ago was all about Governmental intrusion in people’s lives, NOT people’s intrusion into EACH OTHER’S lives. This is a critical point that seems completely lost on much of the electorate these days.

Sigh.

That having been said, I don’t get all angry at the guy, nor would I care about his appearance if I were a customer getting a cup of coffee from him or whatever. I’m simply curious as to how it’s affected his life thus far and especially the future — and having been 19 myself once (and done a lot of stupid things, though thankfully at that point permanently altering one’s face was pretty much limited to nosejobs), I potentially feel sorry for the middle-aged guy he will one day be.

But that’s not the same as intolerance. What the hell is it about people that makes everyone so viciously determined to tell everyone else how to live? Seems to me that this is what’s wrong with this country — everybody has a strong opinion on everyone else’s particular preferences, and they aren’t shy about angrily making it known. Tattoos? Piercings? If it’s not you or your kid, why do you care? Gay marriage? Why do you care? Why do you need to convert everyone to your religion, or your ideology, or your own self-righteous sense of aesthetics?

And yeah, I know the original issue was about hiring someone to essentially represent your company to the public. In that case, certainly do what works for you — my issue here is with the anger, the visceral loathing one senses in a lot of these comments. It’s a symptom of something very ugly in this culture — much uglier than tattoos or facial piercings.

Live and let live, I say — and get the **** over it.

“Having a piercing is part of my religion” said the educated duck
“what is your religion” asked the pig
“PWP” replied the duck
“PWP?”
“People with piercings!” answered the duck. Well the pig looked rather confused and said “thats not a real religion!” the duck laughed.
“Doesnt matter. What ever I chose to believe is my choice. Its part of my rights, and you cant take those away from me.”

Moral of the story. No matter what the reason the piercing is there– and if you chose to NOT hire someone who is qualified because of that piece of metal in their face you can be sued, and you WILL lose.

Its in the constitution!

Those with dont exclude the ones without.

Do not diss the nostril piercing of luck.

p.s. I’m just working there ’til I go to college, so please, refrain from insinuating that I am a dropout.