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FtttG
12m ago
Pretty much my reaction when I heard she stopped.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
15m ago
Ok let's do a quiz. In which of the following scenarios would you either judge someone as having committed a faux pas, or wouldn't immediately think less of someone who did judge:
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Man wearing hat inside someone else's house (ok cap, it doesn't have to be a bowler or whatever)
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Girl applying make-up on a public train full of people.
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Hawking a big throaty loogie and setting it free via a big spit off the train platform while waiting for the train.
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wearing white socks with a dark suit
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woman going bra-less at her friend's wedding
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walking barefoot in a mall (in a landlocked town)
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bikini top in a restaurant (enclosed)
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striped necktie with plaid shirt
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speaking while chewing food
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laughing after your partner's orgasm
These are in no order. Your answers will be entered into your permanent record.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
22m ago
I guess this is something we can agree to disagree on.
What does this mean in context? When I say to my wife "Let's agree to disagree on [whether I bought the right range hood for our kitchen]" what I mean is something like "I want to eat dinner, make love, go the play we have tickets for tonight without arguing about [the range hood.]" I will totally argue with you about other things in other threads without bringing up asexuality! But in this thread right now, I'm going to keep poking, because I'm viscerally horrified at this:
I don't view experiencing the full range of human emotions as something crucial either. It's a nice to have, but not necessary to achieve the things that are important in life.
I don't know how you draw a set of things that are Important in Life, that excludes everyone who is deaf or blind or in a wheelchair (our core definition of a cripple) but includes Asexuals (or I suppose people who are born unable to experience anger or hunger). Some subset of deaf/blind/wheelchair people live great lives, better than average, I'm sure quite a few better than mine, but on average it limits your experience of life to have those crippling limitations. The full range of human emotions and experiences is what is important in life! It is what is human. The saints and the sages are heroes because they struggled with their emotions. The Buddha, meditating under his tree and being tempted and threatened with women and with armies; what does that mean if he did not feel lust or the urge to battle and glory? Mahatma Gandhi sleeping chastely with women is nothing if he feels no desire that he can conquer. What is St. Augustine if he can't taste the pears? That's what makes their experience and their accomplishment human!
I feel like I'm trying to explain why seeing color is better than being colorblind.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
35m ago
Great stuff, thanks.
TheDemonRazgriz
40m ago
If i were a US rival i'd be buying up lots of farmland around US military bases and industry
China has indeed been doing that.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
49m ago
She would probably also stop it now if she was in a harsher incentive system... grow up into productive people because they are intelligent enough to understand the incentive systems created by society... but she doesn't seem to want to be purposefully causing harm to people around her.
But she didn't. She is intelligent enough to understand those incentive systems created by society to purposefully cause harm to others.
I think her actions would be a lot more destructive if that were the case.
Her actions were already seriously destructive. Tantamount to attempted murder, in fact. Preventing it already required her to be locked up, and that has already put the rest of the family in danger.
I think a huge cause of the issue with the girl in question is also that she is a child.
She really isn't (Western fiction about the age of adulthood aside); note that your suggested solution is to treat her like the adult she clearly is. Mine is too, of course- adults attempting murder get adult punishments (including and up to physical removal), and that's OK. The British hanging tables have data matching youth body types for a reason.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
58m ago
To add to what has been said, the Color out of Space, Pickman's Model, The Statement of Randolph Carter, From Beyond, Herbert West - Re-animator, The Nameless City, Nyarlathotep and The Whisperer in the Darkness are all a lot of fun too, and it's usually a good idea to start with his short stories, because the quality of his prose varies wildly in his longer works. If I had to be picky, the Color out of Space has a special place in my heart but The Rats in the Walls is an objectively better short story, Nyarlathotep is his best poem by a mile and At the Mountains of Madness is my favourite of his books, although Shadow over Innsmouth is a close second.
FistfullOfCrows
58m ago
the authorities have to pick one of the two terrible optics choices of either force feeding them or letting them starve to death
We should pass a law that prohibits the authorities from force feeding people.
I would say #3, 6, 7, 9, and 10. 5 is a maybe depending on if it isn't really apparent versus "wow I can see everything even with her clothes on". Of the ones I mentioned, #3, 7, 9 and 10 are things that would bother me personally, while #6 is one that doesn't bother me but I don't find it overly judgemental if someone else doesn't think it's cool.
I didn't know I had a permanent record, lol.
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