pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
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pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
22hr ago
This could be a mostly unconscious rationalization. E.g., the id desperately wants to kill, the superego knows it is terrible, and the ego resolves the conflict by manufacturing a convenient rationalization, which becomes fact in the conscious mind.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1d ago
Or, she was never actually going to do it and seized upon that as the best self-justification for inaction. Just like all those people totally, seriously, for-real are joining the gym this week - until completely unexpectedly, something came up which made it too inconvenient.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
This video explained to me in a concrete way why the intervals defined by the 12-note scale actually do sound more harmonious on common physical instruments, and why less common instruments don't work as well in that scale, which is something I always noticed about the tubular bells or carillon.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
Hiking several miles through a blizzard to sit at the fireplace at a cozy pub with a pint or a highball.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
3d ago
I think this is a common problem with first-person narratives, at least for myself. I find a character with what I consider to be annoying quirks a lot more annoying when they are also the narrator. I feel that the third person narration puts a little more distance between myself and even the protagonist, so I don't feel the same way I do when someone is saying cringeworthy stuff to me in a real life conversation.
I believe in punishment for punishment's sake. It is a necessary component of justice and a simple extension of the golden rule: as a person harms another, so too they also shall be harmed. I find that a lot of people express a belief that punishment is a vicious necessity, to be minimized whenever and wherever possible and used only to the extent needed to serve other material ends (especially with respect to women). I don't agree with this at all, and I think it undermines the goal of justice to eliminate righteous punishment for the guilty.
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