LOL what's with all the "are you a feminist" posts

I feel sick and tired and I have a headache

but alcohol & weed aren't harmful, remember

real talk, though

foman is legitimately a piece of shit moderator

what you can honestly say is that the possibility of this individual having family/friends that would be affected by such an incident, along with the other potential factors you cited, all outweigh any detrimental possibilities you could think of--if you honestly believe that

and then you'd have an argument

And if they're guaranteed to die shortly after being stabbed, then I'm still inclined toward the human, because they would have a greater awareness of the situation/what they're going to leave behind.

And the pain of their friends and family are relevant as well, unless you want to remove them from the equation

i would apply occam's razor--don't assume this person has any friends or family, or even an awareness of the situation

we know the pig doesn't

Well ok, but that doesn't address the utilitarian problem.

you cite the psychological trauma that would incur if the human was stabbed, but you also cite the possibility of the pig suffering trauma as well

are you saying the human is more likely, or are you just contradicting yourself

also, remember that they're gonna die, so
they won't be suffering forever

Capitalist culture is the problem, not humanity. Raise people to value each other instead of possesions and im sure things would be better.

I completely agree (with the second sentence, anyway). I mean, there's many caveats with that, but I'll just leave it there, because we don't agree very often.

the one where pigs are fat as fuck and i'm sitting here in an air conditioned room

Well, I'm just saying, clearly it's not planet Earth, or anything called "reality".

Human beings consume FAR more than they produce on average.
And you can mostly blame fucking capitalism for that shit.

Boy. You got me all worked up.

which coincidentally happens to benefit society

which is like saying you're a benefit to your homelife, because you helped your wife clean up the house by placing ONE fucking saltine cracker wrapper into the garbage--not because you wanted to, but because you didn't want to hear her bitch, and that was the minimum amount of effort she was looking for

humans do vastly more good than bad on average.

LOL

What fucking planet do YOU live on!?

while a human has the potential to cure cancer, and the pig doesn't
it also has the potential to shoot up an elementary school. and the pig doesn't.

so, pick your poison

oh, and by the way:

the number of mass shootings that took place in the US last year: over 300.
the number of times a panacea for cancer has been found: 0

just a little fun fact

There are people who are genetically predisposed to becoming addicted.

It's just not that simple. Some people can quit when they feel like it, others are such addicts they think they can't, so they can't.

i suppose the only way i could ever understand is if i tried it myself
that's the only way

some people have told me that it would be like if i had my internet cut
but i've had my internet cut for months on end, and i didn't give a single flying feathered fuck, so

i mean, it sucked, because the internet's pretty cool, but i wasn't going through "withdrawals" or anything stupid

And I'm not even disagreeing with him; addicts may be weak, but it wouldn't have much to do with any 'choices' they make because the concept of choice is highly diminished with clinical addiction.

well, for my dad, his addiction was to nicotine

he would smoke every day for as long as i can remember until i was twelve, when he woke up one day and said "i'm done", basically

and he quit, cold turkey

no problems, no complications
and he said it was one of the easier things he's ever done

so for me, whenever i hear stuff like, "you can't just stop an addiction", i'm very very skeptical
call it anecdotal, because that's what it is, but that's just my experience

Quote from: Verbatim on June 09, 2015, 08:15:17 PM

i guess i'll have to add, "if you support women's rights, you are a feminist--no exceptions" to my list

Given the current movement's willingness to say this in conversation, regardless of the shit they've spouted previously, I find that statement incredibly disingenuous.

i mean, it's just a fact, meta

there's a lot of people who don't believe in god, yet they don't personally identify as atheists, because they want to dissociate themselves from the militant/fedora-tipping stigma that it's now been relegated to on the internet

but they're still atheists, obviously

i don't need to point out once again that most feminists aren't SJW tumblr feminazis
(because most feminists don't even realize they're feminists--HINT HINT)

so it's more disingenuous to imply that this "current" movement is anything more than what i've described in the past as a fringe vocal minority, unrepresentative of the real cause

Ugh... got some more cleaning up to do

i hate people who are so obviously not who they are

This community is literally cancer, and it's gonna keep on stagnating forever. It's already a circlejerk as it is. If it wasn't so shitty, then people wouldn't be getting banned so often.

i would honestly argue that a community wherein members are frequently banned for misbehavior is the sign of a healthier community