twodigits
1yr ago
I don't see any dumbness out of context; just one person trying to intimidate another with a nonsense question, and their staying cool and holding frame by giving a friendly answer.
twodigits
1yr ago
Was it the show where a character said that the one thing he'd never seen in all his years on the force was a criminal mastermind?
Jack Reacher? Joe Pickett?
There are also various books where the protagonist tracks a murderer who turns out to be the "good guy", and ends up letting them go or covering for them.
What's the salient difference between the shape of any buttplug and any pyramid? Don't they both have a wide base tapering to a point (appropriately rounded in the plug's case)?
twodigits
1yr ago
Or in the context of their being the agreed-on good guys, committing it against the agreed-on bad guys in what's agreed to he a "just war"?
twodigits
1yr ago
Is it rational for a person with tight resources and bottom-tier executive function to pursue tertiary education before employment? If not, is it appropriate to try to nudge them to reconsider? Is What Bad Students Know that Good Economists Don't a good summary of the issue to share; or is there a better, more up-to-date one? Or would trying to meta-educate them just be toxic “other-optimizing”, and it's better to just support their decision and encourage them to study hard?
Since you say "people", doesn't that mean that it's equally true that peaceniks like to believe the enemy is reasonable because it relieves them from having to continue war?
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