UNC student arrested while stealing antiabortion sign

She is magnificent.

Also a child.

She is not going placidly amid the haste and the noise and she's forgetting what peace there may be in silence.

I did listen to her sympathetically. The error seems, she's operating by the assumption the campus is hers alone and not everyone's. She is gravely genuinely offended.  "They're restricting women's rights" and "If I ignore them, they just keep coming back," and "this is why it's so difficult for women to get abortions is North Carolina."

She lives with these arguments swirling her precious head when her clear head is needed for study, such that she's forced into physical action as she passes through the campus.

It's not possible to think, gak, another of those prehistoric jerks and keep going unaffected.

It's good to be arrested sometimes. It teaches this campus isn't just yours. She delivers all of her arguments again in defense of her actions. We get the full load. Again. We're right smack at square 1 again. We're stuck on first base. There is never any progress whatsoever. Non of the anti-abortion argument is heard in this video but the girl makes sure we hear her position. All of it. We fill the other side in ourselves automatically. It's a g.d. broken record, a damaged compact disc, a corrupted mp3 file. We've been having his same argument for ages, for generations, across technological leaps, but this miserable argument stays exactly the same.

When a woman asks you what you think about abortion, don't tell her. It is only introduction for her to tell you her position. Say instead, "never mind what I think, let's skip that (as this video does), tell me what you think instead." Because she asked to deliver an earful.

She must now believe what is happening, even though she can't. That's what college is for; to expand the mind.