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2018-12-22 at 2:29 AM UTC in I call out my bossI sometimes cat call my boss.
It's not sexual harassment if the power dynamic is shifted.
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2018-12-22 at 2:24 AM UTC in I used to think Flat Earthers were just being satirical and/or trolling
Originally posted by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEING III: The Quest for 911 Truth When is the last time you did?
Flat earth is a misnomer. The earth isn't flat, in fact the concept of "earth" is itself toxic. I prefer to call it "worldism". As in the whole world has an up and a down, and if you dispute that you're crazy.
So how does a sphere enter into that? What is an earth? Have you ever seen an earth? What you see every day is the world, the whole world, and the only world. It's not a sphere. You're well deluded if you think the world is a sphere hopping around in space. We know how spheres work - spheres are part of the world, the world isn't part of a sphere.
I'm going to be totally honest here in saying that I just trust what science textbooks tell us about the shape of the planet.
Of course I have no first-hand evidence that the Earth is round.
I don't need to become an astronaut just to verify the shape of the Earth.
Argumentum ad populum is not always a fallacy.
Sometimes there's a reason most people just agree on something without needing first-hand evidence.
It just makes the most sense.
And how exactly would the powers that be (government, etc) benefit from lying about the shape of the Earth?
At least some conspiracy theories have some rationale behind them.
The notion of an Earth that is any shape but spherical just has no rhyme or reason to it.
It's just a way to be contrarian for no reason whatsoever. -
2018-12-22 at 2:17 AM UTC in got called out by my bossAlso, LOL at your screenshot-taking game.
Nigga can't even simultaneously hold the down-volume and power button for 3 seconds without turning the ringer volume down... -
2018-12-22 at 2:13 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?
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2018-12-22 at 2:12 AM UTC in got called out by my bossContext?
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2018-12-22 at 2:07 AM UTC in I used to think Flat Earthers were just being satirical and/or trolling
Originally posted by HTS At least Flat Earthers go out and try to gather evidence via experimentation (albeit deeply flawed experimentation)… in my opinion that still puts them miles ahead of a globehead who thinks they know what is True because they read it in a book. Only one of those types of people is actually interested in discovering the Truth for themselves, which is as noble a goal as they come.
Lol.
Ok my ex-roommate, who happened to be an escort and frequent meth-user, and is currently in prison for gun-related charges, used to always "cite evidence" for her beliefs in a so-called "flat-earth."
It was always some stupid YouTube video or some reference to how a pilot's visual perspective when taking off somehow proves her case.
Like, when was the last time she flew a fucking plane?
I hate to resort to ad hominem arguments, but flat-earthers overwhelmingly tend to lie somewhere south of the bell curve of what constitutes a "normal person", let alone even remotely educated.
I always gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was IRL trolling me, but her facial expressions and body language revealed her actual beliefs. -
2018-12-22 at 1:43 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?Then again, I'm not sure I want to encourage this guy...
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2018-12-22 at 1:41 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?
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2018-12-22 at 1:31 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?
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2018-12-22 at 1:20 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?
Originally posted by aldra I joined in like 2004-2005 and mostly just shitposted, but I did try to make a list of deaths, suicides and news/lulz/worthy events a while back
I joined about the same time. It was 2004, but I can't remember which month off the top of my head.
Still, good to know someone else has been around that long as well. -
2018-12-22 at 1:15 AM UTC in Is Lady Lala hot?
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2018-12-21 at 11:15 PM UTC in What happened to Sophie/Psychomanthis?
Originally posted by Loing Let's imagine your neighbour is a pedophile and has raped your son in the asshole, and came down his throat. You've called the police and they have investigated him but they never found any evidence because he was real meticulous. He still loves right next to you. Your son grows up and every once in a while you hear him sobbing from his room. You take him to the doctor, he has anal fissures from being raped in the ass by something serrated. You call the police again. They investigate again, and they find no evidence, and this time they tell you that frankly, they're getting a little concerned about you and your son's injuries.
One day when you're watering your yard, you see him drive right by you, slowly, and he stares right at you, with a sneer, until he can't turn any more.
One day you take your son to the park and you see him playing baseball in the distance. He's the catcher. After the game, he stands up, takes off his mask, calls to you.
"Your son can handle a bat, Gadzooks. You wanna come see the tapes?"
He's inviting you to come back to his room, possibly so he can talk shit and blackmail you with tales of your son being impaled on his cock and sucking his balls. You can see a bat you can stealthily take. What do you do?
Again, super contrived hypothetical, and you are trying to use vivid imagery to elicit emotional responses.
In fact, the fact that your imagination goes to such places so easily is kind of disturbing.
But to address the point you're trying to make here...
Originally posted by Loing That's called reduction and absurdum. You should read about it, it's not a problem.
I assume you mean "reductio ad absurdum"...
I can concoct just as many hypothetical scenarios in which one might be tempted to use a baseball bat on someone's face as you can.
If anything, all it's doing is diminishing your point.
There is still a difference between your situation about my perverted neighbor and BOTH scenarios described above.
The following three scenarios are fundamentally different:
1. Wanting to bash someone's face in because they admit to being attracted to children, but have yet to commit any deviant acts.
2. Defending yourself when you're being held captive and your only recourse is to use a bat.
3. Getting revenge against the perverted neighbor because the criminal justice system has failed.
#1 is absolutely unnecessary.
#2 is clearly necessary.
#3 is not necessary, but perhaps somewhat understandable.
These are three different scenarios that do not correlate at all. -
2018-12-21 at 11:02 PM UTC in ORANGE MAN STILL BAD
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2018-12-21 at 10:11 PM UTC in I currently do not have an erection.
Originally posted by Zanick OP how about now
Nothing right now.
But I'm on a drinking binge right now so that could be contributing.
I'm going to be making a real effort towards cutting back on my drinking soon.
I just need to get through the holiday season though.
December is always a very depressing time for me, so my drinking reaches peak levels of excessiveness this time of year. -
2018-12-21 at 10:08 PM UTC in I currently do not have an erection.
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2018-12-21 at 9:59 PM UTC in Who's the biggest sexual deviant on NIS?
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson I think necrophilia beats fucking children on the deviant scale…that's just me though.
I think bringing these two up next to each other really drives home the point that we need a consistent definition of "deviancy" here.
Both of these acts are quite "icky", but one is technically a victimless crime, so I wouldn't really put them in the same league morally. -
2018-12-21 at 9:54 PM UTC in What happened to Sophie/Psychomanthis?
Originally posted by Loing We can't do that if you make an absolute declaration, and then try to maintain it by couching it with the "virtually" qualifier. An intellectually honest person wouldn't be trying to eat their cake and have it too in this way.
My absolute declaration is that the kind of hypothetical violence you spoke of earlier is excessive and, more importantly, unnecessary.
There is a clear difference between that scenario and the one you concocted wherein violence is actually necessary.
Intellectual dishonesty is trying to claim that these two scenarios are even remotely comparable:
Originally posted by Loing Those pedo cunts who are like "it's part of who am I am so no, I would t take a pill toβ" FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER. These are the people I want to take a baseball bat to. You built your identity on your childfucking tendencies, you sick. Mother. Fucker? Bam bam bam, face caved in, society is a little bit safer.
Originally posted by Loing Let's imagine you are currently chained to a wall and are being ass raped by a massive, bloodlusted nigger who has the key. He will rape you every 6 hours, every day, until you die in captivity. There is a baseball bat within your reach that you can swing and end this. Next time. Do you take a bat to his face?
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2018-12-21 at 9:40 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny so people should be unrepresented ?
Wut?
I'm basically saying the exact opposite.
I truly believe in the legal principle that everyone should have the right to a fair trial.
I could actually see myself being a criminal defense attorney for that exact reason.
Very few people have the constitution for it though because they would feel morally conflicted about representing someone whom they believe to be guilty of some especially heinous crime.
My point was that, while I may believe my client to be guilty, and I may find their actions to be morally condemnable, I am still not betraying my own ethical or moral principles within this particular scope of morality.
Thus, morality and ethics are still one and the same concept. -
2018-12-21 at 1:03 PM UTC in What happened to Sophie/Psychomanthis?Ok, I'm not pulling yet another all-nighter on NiS just to debate about the pros and cons of violence.
I'm out for the night. -
2018-12-21 at 12:56 PM UTC in What happened to Sophie/Psychomanthis?
Originally posted by Technologist Stopping in to say, I am so against violence, but I could take a baseball bat to a pedos head if they touched anyone in my family. Yup, no problem.
I want to point out that, even though I likely wouldn't. This is still different from Loing's example.
For him it's not even about personal vengeance. He has some kind of fantasy to bash in just any "pedo's" face, and to the point of murder as well.
That's both excessive and unnecessary, is all I'm saying.
