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Serious / Answering Meta's question from a couple months ago
« on: December 29, 2014, 06:32:05 PM »
Since I was unbanned, I took it upon myself to search up my username here--to see how much discussion of myself has taken place in my wake. Because I do like a good stroke of the ego every once in awhile. You are all such nice people.

Then I found that, soon after I was banned, Meta had actually made a thread addressed to me, but I couldn't respond to him because of my having been banned. So, I'll take the liberty of responding now, because I'm not a guy who just... doesn't respond to queries posed to him.
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Assume we live in some sort of techno-socialist utopia. Bio-ethics is ridden with abolitionism and utilitarianism; suffering simply doesn't exist anymore.

However, despite all of this amazing technological progress, suffering is offered as a choice to people. 100% of the population cause themselves to suffer in varying degrees at various point in their life.

If this were true - take it to be - would procreation still be immoral, and would suffering be still inherently undesirable in your mind?
It would still be immoral. 100% of the population submits to suffering? Doesn't sound like a choice to me.

See, you simply cannot use terms like "choice" and "100%" together like that. If I flip a coin ten times, for example, and get heads every single time, I can't say that there's a 100% chance of getting heads. Indeed, if I flipped a coin for all 7.2 billion people living on Earth right now, and I got heads 7.2 billion times, I still can't say that the coin has a 100% chance of getting heads.

The fact is, there will be at least one instance down the line where the other option is flipped. This is called statistical inevitability. There will be one outlier who will say, "Holy FUCK. This 'suffering' thing seems really fucking dumb, and I don't think I'll submit myself to it."

If I don't play devil's advocate and apply hard realism to the scenario (which I know you hate when I do), and play your scenario exactly as you... may have intended it, and literally every single human being submits to the suffering, then that cannot be described as a choice under any rational, cogent definition of the word.

Spoiler
Also, as an aside, someone in the thread made a comment with regards to my ban--and I'm paraphrasing:
"he tried to fight the law, and the law won"

lolnoitdidnt

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The Flood / Re: user tiers (totally not biased at all)
« on: December 29, 2014, 06:16:31 PM »
how was i trying to bully you lol

because i called you "kid"? okay, kid

45513
The Flood / Re: Why did noelle actually rage quiT?
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:42:35 PM »
Disagreements with mods and having a general hatred of the community.

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:36:21 PM »
that has a lot to do with anything

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:35:20 PM »
me being petty does not make you less petty

if it's petty to tell others not to be petty, then i'll make the sacrifice and be the petty guy that tells others not to be petty--so you don't have to be

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:30:36 PM »
Luis had no problem understanding the intent of the question. You're embarrassing yourself by *trying* to be condescending.
yes, every now and then, you take a risk, and nothing bad happens
that doesn't mean it's smart to take risks

you're embarrassing yourself by speaking
at all

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:24:55 PM »
there actually is an NPC that'll tell you in vague terms whether or not your IVs are perfect or not, but i don't know where he/she is
That's what I had in mind, or at least whether he plays competitively, not that you would care to realize that.
it's just silly to even assume people know what IVs are in the first place

it's only the most esoteric thing ever

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:19:20 PM »
there actually is an NPC that'll tell you in vague terms whether or not your IVs are perfect or not, but i don't know where he/she is

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Gaming / Re: Just destroyed my cousin in pokemon ama
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:14:37 PM »
yeah, tell us all about them IVs, because i'm so sure that you care to keep track of those

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:08:10 PM »
>2014

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The Flood / Re: Should I change my username back to just BaconShelf?
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:07:00 PM »
BaconShelf

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:06:27 PM »
bot

obvs

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The Flood / Re: user tiers (totally not biased at all)
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:05:55 PM »
i think a couple did, 'cause some were a little zealous over having been put into the e-tier

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The Flood / Re: why did Noel rage quit
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:04:49 PM »
lol

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:04:34 PM »
nope

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The Flood / Re: Should I change my username back to just BaconShelf?
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:02:58 PM »
You should go for something that's a bit less of an eyesore, like this: B̷̲̝͙̮̘̜͖̜̦̻̝̤̭̐͗̊ͯ̿͟͡͞aͯ͑̃̄ͬ̀̎̒̾͒̒ͦ͒̆̅͗̾͏̭̲͖̹͉̻̗͇̞͈̪̘̮͟ĉ̷̲̗͓͙̘͈̫̹̫͕̠͖̪̝͙̭̟͍͒̈́̇̊̏͡͡ọ̢̫̹͇͉ͤ̒̃͌ͯ̄̋̔͂ͧ͌ͧ͛̐́̄͢͟͞n̢̞̩̲̖̪̗̜̹̹̳̲̺͔͕̖̗̮͂́́͛ͮͬ͌͋́̚̕͢ͅͅS̛̰̦̻͕̗͓͈͔̫͎̬̺͍͚̩̟̄̓ͤ̈́͛̌ͦͫ͂͒͛̏ȟ̷͎̝̹͔̟̫͕̗̻̗̞̬́̈̎̇ͩ̽̽̑͆ͩ̔̔̾̀͢͜ẻ̵̴̡̧͍̩̪̲̩̯̙͚̤̳̓͛́̚l̵̢̘͉̼͉͗ͯ̾̓͑ͬ͢f̶̹͓̫̻̲͇̘ͤ̌̅̊̅ͮ̒̃ͫ̓̆ͦ͒̏͡

i'm kidding, of course

don't actually do that

DON'T

DON'T FUCKING DO IT

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The Flood / Re: Should I change my username back to just BaconShelf?
« on: December 29, 2014, 05:00:18 PM »
yes

your name as it is now is an eyesore

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The Flood / Re: user tiers (totally not biased at all)
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:57:12 PM »
>Is too mad enough to put me on at least one tier.
i don't know who the fuck you are kid

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:56:36 PM »
you're not human

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The Flood / Re: Do you plan on getting married?
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:54:26 PM »
Alright. Good to now.
Good to what now? How does one "good"?

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:53:37 PM »
why do you keep bringing that up, like it was the most important moment of your life

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The Flood / Re: Birthday Thread? Birthday Thread!
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:49:11 PM »
you didn't add mine, you goddamn bitch

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The Flood / Re: user tiers (totally not biased at all)
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:46:45 PM »

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The Flood / Re: Do you plan on getting married?
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:36:31 PM »
In fact, love should come before marriage.
Profound.

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The Flood / Re: Do you plan on getting married?
« on: December 29, 2014, 04:30:24 PM »
Only if she wanted to; otherwise, why bother?

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Gaming / Re: holy fuck why is breeding so complicated
« on: December 29, 2014, 01:24:55 PM »
And that's why I use simulators for competitive battling.

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The Flood / Re: Just BTFO some dumb feminist (with pictures)
« on: December 29, 2014, 01:18:36 PM »
you only got £20 for that shit

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The Flood / Re: Thar Be Dragons - An Alignment Test
« on: December 29, 2014, 01:06:33 PM »
Right, good point. Yeah, so in general, I ain't gonna sacrifice moral integrity just for the sake of upholding law.
I ain't Javert.

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The Flood / Re: Thar Be Dragons - An Alignment Test
« on: December 29, 2014, 11:55:44 AM »
THAT'S EVEN WORSE

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