pariah

If you're pro-rape, you're a pariah, but it's not illegal just to have those beliefs.

Treated like a social pariah on a good day, non-existent the next?

They become some sort of pariah, avoided on Facebook and Twitter?

Iran is _already_ considered a pariah state that nobody wants any dealings with.

But yes, they can be held financially responsible and be made into the pariah of the civilized world.

Don't know if this is your opinion or if you're just stating a fact about others, but that is some selfish social pariah thinking right there.

Treat it as a predatory pariah and it behaves like a predatory pariah.

If you walk around saying every true thing that comes into your mind at best you'll be treated like you have Tourette's, and at worst you'll be a complete pariah.

Further, people who have a serious HN presence who contribute to the muck on these threads are, as you can see from the grey cast their comments take, driving themselves into pariah status.

I'm not a libertarian but you still need to consider that outlawing something voluntarily or even just singling it out as a pariah has tricky effects.

While there would have been genuine reasons, or simply bad luck, for these people getting rejected but I saw at least a few of them outgrowing their 'pariah' status and deciding to go for it and build it all by themselves.

Just when Russia should by all rights be an absolute pariah with its disgusting attacks on homosexuals - they've finessed themselves into the role of protectors of free speech and whistleblowers, darlings of the techno-elite set everywhere.

Now when I say that I don't have a Facebook people ask me what's wrong with me, if I have things to hide and plain and simple tell me that I'm some kind of social pariah...What bugs me the most is that people are judging me before even hearing my concerns about time wasting, privacy.

There could be many reasons for European leaders to be so supine, mostly I imagine it's pressure from the US and not wishing to be made a pariah, but also they are engaged in their own spying which is just as pervasive as the NSA, and to a great or lesser extent are reliant on the NSA for intelligence - most of the governments of Europe are partnered with the NSA on some level since Echelon and integration is probably tighter now, many have US bases on their soil.