Not exact matches
They are that, of course, but they are much else too, and I
suspect that one of the reasons for the revolt against religion is that too often religiously minded
people,
lay or ordained, have talked of humankind in altogether too «spiritual» a fashion, forgetting so much else that is true of every
person who has ever lived.
Furthermore, I
suspect that some
lay people, Catholics, Protestants and unchurched alike, have a similar mindset, that older kids are somehow «partially to blame» for the abuse.
The father of a student who was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School filed a lawsuit accusing numerous
people and entities of enabling the
suspected killer, Nikolas Cruz, and
laid a large amount of blame for the shooting at the feet of Broward County sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson.
Making his pitch in the UK Constitutional Law Blog, he lamented that the wikipedia article on the UK constitution, first port of call for many a
lay person (and law student in a hurry), «would not pass a peer review process for an academic journal and nor would it receive a good mark as an undergraduate essay (though I
suspect it has been cut and pasted into some over the years)».
Information technology companies are notoriously open to any style at all, in part because their
people don't deal with the public directly, but in part because of the kind of
people they want to hire, and in part these days (one
suspects) to maintain their reputation as
laid - back and cool.