Posts by Lanny

2015-08-14 at 3:16 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

That's the thing right? According to the left nothing is anyone's fault, that is, if you're poor or a minority.

The entire notion of "it's their own fault", comeuppance, and just deserts is a gradeschool mentality that some people seem to have failed to grow out of. Who care whose fault a person's poverty or misfortune is? Does it make their suffering any less material, any less bad? Imagine the world where everyone gets exactly what they deserve and the world where everyone gets exactly what they want/need. Clearly the latter is better than the former. Material concerns might make us shape our policy somewhat differently, past performance may reflect future returns so to speak and showering drug addicts in money may not produce the best returns in human well being but the idea that anyone has or can do anything to make themselves a priori (that is, with all else being equal) less deserving of happiness or existence then you've created what is, in effect, a secular religion in the true blue spirit of the abrahamics.

2015-08-14 at 3:06 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

It's true, Jonathan Haidt has done good work in this, and also demonstrated that leftists generally don't understand rightists worldview, the farther to the left you go the worst the effect becomes, on average, and attribute differences due to evil, which Lanny has consistently shown.

blatant lies.

Leftists universalist humanitarian values also tend to be wildly inconsistent and incoherent: www.slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

I'm not going to take time to respond to that considering how egregiously bad it is, but I am interested in an honest answer from you. Have you actually read that and do you honestly think it's anything other than shit?

Of course people like Lanny will refuse to take responsibility for it and claim they aren't inherently leftist stances, which is true, but won't answer as to why they come from the left and have been adhered to so consistently and widespread for decades with no sign of changing, all the while having no problem blaming rightists for their perceived outcomes of their policies.

So somehow these positons aren't leftist and yet somehow the left is still to blame for them? Who's failing to understand the opposing ideology now? No one has ever so staunchly demonstrated a failure to understand what leftism is and isn't or been more prone to criticize it based on its adherents rather than it's contents (ironically something you regularly chastise me for without reason) than you.

2015-08-14 at 2:54 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

The right not caring about humanity is a myth. The right cares just as much for humanity however the right's ideas of how to make everything fair for everyone among other things are simply fundamentally different than the left's.

It's a nice story but I don't think it pans out for much, if not most, of the libertarian-esq right. Consider such dogma as non-aggression. It's considered a fundamental rule which it is never permissible to break. The christian right has much the same in the form or religious dogma. As soon as you have a deontological rule like that which isn't "maximize well being" then your primary concern is no longer the well being of humanity. I mean there are smart people who believe that and it's certainly not a position we can write off without strong arguments but it's simply a matter of fact that if you are willing to reduce net human well being in order to uphold a moral law then you care less about humans than someone who things human well being is the final good (most act utilitarians).

edit: now I should say I'm not sure this cuts along right/left lines, but it's hard to argue that deontological positions (or at least implicitly deontological positions) aren't more common on the right.

2015-08-13 at 5:33 PM UTC in Public Schools are filthy breeding grounds of germs and sickness

Lanny Bird of Courage

Having been to several private schools as a kid I can safely say that any place where you have a large gathering of young children is going to be a filthy breeding ground for germs and sickness

2015-08-13 at 5:31 PM UTC in color

Lanny Bird of Courage

Try making White paint by mixing all different colors of pigments.

Try making black paint without any pigments.

I can't believe I'm actually wading into this thread but paint works by reflecting the range of light we consider to be that paint's color. Our sensation of "redness" is more directly caused by the property of the light reflected off the paint than from the paint itself (you can produce red light without pigment, for example) hence it makes more sense to describe "colors", in absence of a medium, as light as opposed pigment.

2015-08-13 at 6:09 AM UTC in color

Lanny Bird of Courage

this thread...

2015-08-13 at 1:54 AM UTC in Spectral's Hacking Mentor

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'd say the same with a face like this.

Hey look, I found another:

2015-08-12 at 4:47 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

Subservience requires domination.

Do you see the regress that's happening here? "why is <DOING X> bad?", "because it implies subservience", "but why is subservience bad", "because it implies domination", "so why is domination bad?". Let's stick to the point. You originally called me out saying "stop being a subservient weenie" implying subservience is bad. You seem to owe us an account of why subservience is bad and why advocating control by the competent (what I was doing in the post you quoted) is subservient,

2015-08-12 at 4:25 AM UTC in "Name Whiskers"

Lanny Bird of Courage

The quick version of it (and many threads of late) is that spectral got called on being generally inept, desperate, and pathetic and his efforts to back out of it only compound the situation

2015-08-12 at 4:09 AM UTC in I think I'm going to get vanned tomorrow.

Lanny Bird of Courage

lol runescape

2015-08-12 at 3:48 AM UTC in "Name Whiskers"

Lanny Bird of Courage

Man, spectroll, you dickrode SotB so hard for so long. You can't even back out of that now. Literally nothing you can say now will speak louder than the fool you made of yourself for all that time.

2015-08-12 at 3:46 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

Seeking a qualified opinion, or even hiring an expert, is a far cry from subservience.

How exactly? Either you take expert advice (indistinguishable from subservience based on merit) or you don't (and would be a retard for it most likely). The idea of consultation as making yourself some kind of central executive who weighs expert advice is misguided. You are not qualified to weigh evidence in complex fields you're not an expert in. The vast majority of us just don't have the ability to separate correct elaborate mathematical proofs from wrong ones, and thus the best we can do is defer to consensus among mathematicians. Either we do this or we don't, but there's no way to separate the "consulted experts, took their advice" scenario from the "took expert advice merely because experts gave it" because they're functionally the same thing.

Which is what defines good and evil.

The problem here is most relativistic moral "theories" are internally inconsistent. There doesn't seem to be a coherent way to decide the jurisdiction of any given moral rule-set in such models.

2015-08-11 at 4:42 PM UTC in Hiding Files in Images WITHOUT Steganography Software

Lanny Bird of Courage

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28369097/how-does-the-jpeg-of-death-vulnerability-operate

The only thing posting that link does is show how poorly you understand the topic and the code you posted.

2015-08-11 at 5:44 AM UTC in hellen keller vs anne frank

Lanny Bird of Courage

MFW

2015-08-11 at 4:01 AM UTC in I always avoid black dicks in porn

Lanny Bird of Courage

P.S. nice IWD avatar

2015-08-11 at 4:01 AM UTC in I always avoid black dicks in porn

Lanny Bird of Courage

don't look now but your insecurities around nigger cocks are showing

2015-08-11 at 4 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

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2015-08-11 at 3:56 AM UTC in Hiding Files in Images WITHOUT Steganography Software

Lanny Bird of Courage

pwnd indeed

2015-08-10 at 2:24 AM UTC in AK47 spice review by roshambo, yours truly

Lanny Bird of Courage

I kinda wanna smoke something off a coke can now just for nostalgia. First time I smoked weed it was off a can and ended up making out with this slam piglet for like a solid two hours on the beach at sunset. Good memories mang.

2015-08-10 at 2:02 AM UTC in is everyone evil

Lanny Bird of Courage

Damnit lanny, stop being a subservient weenie. Believe in yourself, you can run your own life…..

There's nothing wrong with "subservience" or deference to authority when that authority is better qualified than you are. In fact the majority of things we do, we do by consulting a well qualified authority (when you're sick you consult medical authority, when you don't know something you consult the authority of someone more knowledgable, a minority of effective truths in our lives are self-discovered). It makes sense then that it's in everyone's interest to elevate the qualified to authority, and that when the qualified seek authority that's a good thing.

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