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It's not supposed to be that way.
The ignorance surrounding my disease has been a choice, a choice made by the institutions that were supposed to protect us.
It's about loving people as they are, not as they're supposed to be.
It flew in the face of more conventional trajectories of love and relationships, because God was never supposed to bless a union for folks like us, and the law was never supposed to recognize it.
Ones that are about creating the space for us to be our authentic selves and not imposing this standard of what masculinity or femininity is supposed to be.
Our experience does not invalidate other peoples' experience, but it should and necessarily does complicate this idea of what love and marriage are supposed to be.
Characters are supposed to grow and change.
We've been discovering these along ancient trade routes, where they're not supposed to be.
And I realized in that moment that this is what religion is supposed to be about.
It's supposed to be about giving people back a sense of purpose, a sense of hope, a sense that they and their dreams fundamentally matter in this world that tells them that they don't matter at all.
I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black.
And I remember us yelling, which you're not supposed to do in an animal room where you're testing, because it had worked.
It's supposed to be a kinder, gentler, positive eugenics, different than all that past stuff.
So I took on the TV accusatory judge thing that you're supposed to do, and I asked her why she did that.
I did more work figuring out exactly how the program was supposed to behave.
So we conducted a study where we recruited liberals to a study where they were supposed to write a persuasive essay that would be compelling to a conservative in support of same-sex marriage.
Overall, we found that 69 percent of liberals invoked one of the more liberal moral values in constructing their essay, and only nine percent invoked one of the more conservative moral values, even though they were supposed to be trying to persuade conservatives.
And when we studied conservatives and had them make persuasive arguments in support of making English the official language of the US, a classically conservative political position, we found that they weren't much better at this. 59 percent of them made arguments in terms of one of the more conservative moral values, and just eight percent invoked a liberal moral value, even though they were supposed to be targeting liberals for persuasion.
Now the average answer from this survey, which was supposed to be representative of the total population, was 24.
Well, one thing that's not supposed to happen under the law is, you're not supposed to be arrested and jailed simply because you can't afford to pay.
To tell it to drive or drill or tell her whatever she's supposed to do.
It was supposed to be an ice-skating rink.
We create social risks for one another, even in schools which are supposed to be all about learning, and I'm not talking about standardized tests.
But when it comes to being a good person, we think it's something we're just supposed to know, we're just supposed to do, without the benefit of effort or growth.
I'm from Ghana, West Africa, and my question is: I'm wondering how do you present and justify the idea of global governance to countries that have been historically disenfranchised by the effects of globalization, and also, if we're talking about global governance, it sounds to me like it will definitely come from a very Westernized idea of what the "global" is supposed to look like.
And then I picked myself up, I groped for the nozzle, and I did what a firefighter was supposed to do: I lunged forward, opened up the water and I tackled the fire myself.
Something in the sample was killing the bacteria that were supposed to cause the disease.
As you look on the top side of this, that's where the heart and lungs are supposed to be.
As you look at the bottom end, that's where the abdomen is, and that's where the intestines are supposed to be.
And as I came upstairs to get something to drink, I looked out the window and realized that there was something that I was supposed to be doing, and this is what I saw.
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