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That's semantics. I take it you understood the message I was trying to convey.

In principle, there's nothing wrong with the right to buy.

The issue with right to buy is that sold off council stock is not replaced and that many people can't get a council house in the first place.

Am I the only one that thinks this is a weird place to shoehorn in an entirely unrelated issue?

I understand that you feel strongly about the issues faced by trans kids, but I don't see what it has to do with unaffordable house prices.

When you're rich, you make your own rules. Laws are to protect the rich from the dirty poors, not the other way around!

Something being technically legal doesn't make it technically OK.

If I had just started a new job and my CV was found to be "incredibly misleading", I'd expect to be kicked out the door, not because I'd broken the law or commited gross misconduct, but because I'd been found to be unsuitable for the expectations of the company/customers.

This story is just another straw on the camels back of the privatised water industry that have been using the British tax payer as an ATM for fat cat shareholders for decades, with debts so huge that our children and our children's children will be burdened.

It's a related opinion

Fair enough. I definitely do that too, sometimes you can also link the post of when the question was last asked.

Typing a query in to Google is faster than making a post on Reddit and yet people still wanted you to do it for them. I never posted "have you tried Google?", or anything like that, but lmgtfy links were always a fun option.

Ok, thanks for clarifying, it's quite interesting to try and understand other people.

I disagree.

I do understand where you're coming from though, you're opinion is very common. When you've worked your whole life to be comfortable and you want to understand why some people are living in comparitive poverty, it's nice to just think about how lazy and feckless they are and how hard working and diligent you are.

I'm not saying that your opinion is even entirely untrue (although I do think it's mostly untrue), but I am saying that good chance has an awful lot more to do with it than most people consider.

You could be the most hard working person in history, be born in Africa and die of dysentery at age five. Likewise, I myself am doing OK as an electrician, but the only reason for that is that my dad was an electrician and he helped me get on to a path in to the career via an apprenticeship that I was very lucky to get. I have no idea what I'd be doing today if I hadn't gone down that career path by pure chance.

All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn't appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.

It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don't like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.

I hate posts where the answer is the top search result on Google. We're not here as a proxy for a search engine.

Some subreddits had a "use Google first" rule.