"Talk shit get hit" sounds like something my girlfriend's rapist brother says

Lemy the Lizerd · January 15, 2015, 11:03:20 PM

If your response to offensive comments or media is violence, you should probably kill yourself, because you are of no value to any civilized society.

If your ideology cannot stand up to criticism without you having to resort to violence, you need to reevaluate your worldview.

Verbatim · January 15, 2015, 11:09:46 PM

what if you're using violence to demonstrate a point

Turkey · January 15, 2015, 11:29:40 PM

You're hanging out at the mall with your mom/sister/girlfriend, and I walk up to her and call her a dick-gargling whore. Do you respond by kindly thanking me for using my right to express myself?

SecondClass · January 15, 2015, 11:34:51 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on January 15, 2015, 11:09:46 PM

what if you're using violence to demonstrate a point

When you use violence to display your viewpoint, you're illegitimatizing it.

Azumarill · January 15, 2015, 11:38:10 PM

on a small scale, talk shit get hit is fine

challengerX · January 16, 2015, 03:33:22 AM

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Mordo · January 16, 2015, 05:15:26 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 15, 2015, 11:29:40 PM

You're hanging out at the mall with your mom/sister/girlfriend, and I walk up to her and call her a dick-gargling whore. Do you respond by kindly thanking me for using my right to express myself?

There's a difference between a flippant comment and a controversial ideology. I wouldn't respond to either with violence anyway.

Nice strawman.

Word Wizard · January 16, 2015, 07:04:17 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 15, 2015, 11:29:40 PM

You're hanging out at the mall with your mom/sister/girlfriend, and I walk up to her and call her a dick-gargling whore. Do you respond by kindly thanking me for using my right to express myself?

Unless you're insecure about it I don't see the reason to, especially since you'd probably go to jail and potentially lose your job and strain your relationship. Now harassment or bullying, that would result in a response but not public.

Turkey · January 16, 2015, 09:13:46 AM

Quote from: Madman Mordo on January 16, 2015, 05:15:26 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 15, 2015, 11:29:40 PM
You're hanging out at the mall with your mom/sister/girlfriend, and I walk up to her and call her a dick-gargling whore. Do you respond by kindly thanking me for using my right to express myself?
There's a difference between a flippant comment and a controversial ideology. I wouldn't respond to either with violence anyway.

Nice strawman.

It's not at all a strawman, It's Socratic reasoning. The point stands that if you claim violence is never an appropriate response to an act of speech, then you need to be able to defend it.

Freedom of speech is the right to express yourself without fear of government reproach. It has absolutely nothing to do with immunity from the consequences of other peoples' offense.

Naoto · January 16, 2015, 09:21:39 AM

One would think the statement 'we shouldn't kill people over cartoons' would not be a controversial in 2015.

PSU · January 16, 2015, 01:44:40 PM

Yall serious? Someone comes up to your mother or gf/wife and directly insults them and you do nothing?

You guys are fucking pussies.

Mad Max · January 16, 2015, 01:52:37 PM

I'd probably just look at them like "wtf m8" and walk away.

not sure why a random person would come up and say something like that, anyway.

More Than Mortal · January 16, 2015, 02:08:40 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 16, 2015, 09:13:46 AM

It has absolutely nothing to do with immunity from the consequences of other peoples' offense.

On the contrary, it has everything to do with not getting fucking murdered for anything you say.

Turkey · January 16, 2015, 02:41:18 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 16, 2015, 02:08:40 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 16, 2015, 09:13:46 AM
It has absolutely nothing to do with immunity from the consequences of other peoples' offense.
On the contrary, it has everything to do with not getting fucking murdered for anything you say.

It doesn't; that's covered under laws against murder.

This thread is a veiled strawman attacking the claim that not all speech can reasonably be expected to be respectfully tolerated. Charlie Hebdo is the easy case. Of course it's wrong to kill someone for a satirical comic, no matter how irreverent it may be. It's not such an easy argument when you realistically look at your own response to increasing degrees of offense.

More Than Mortal · January 16, 2015, 02:45:13 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 16, 2015, 02:41:18 PM

I think we're looking at this from a moral perspective, as opposed to the legal one you're championing.

Yeah, I would probably punch somebody if they called my girlfriend ugly. However, that is qualitatively different (morally) from harming somebody based on religious propositions. Should either be legal? Of course not.

Dustin · January 16, 2015, 02:45:45 PM

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Turkey · January 16, 2015, 02:50:34 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on January 16, 2015, 02:45:13 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 16, 2015, 02:41:18 PM

I think we're looking at this from a moral perspective, as opposed to the legal one you're championing.

Yeah, I would probably punch somebody if they called my girlfriend ugly. However, that is qualitatively different (morally) from harming somebody based on religious propositions. Should either be legal? Of course not.

See, if we're just talking about Charlie Hebdo, then OP should be up-front about it. OP was talking about the scenario of "talk shit, get hit". I don't think any reasonable human being thinks the response to the offense taken from the comics was proportional, justified, or legal, so there's really no reason to talk about it here.

Elegiac · January 18, 2015, 06:25:33 AM

I say it to inanimate objects.

Forgewolf · January 18, 2015, 10:39:44 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on January 15, 2015, 11:29:40 PM

You're hanging out at the mall with your mom/sister/girlfriend, and I walk up to her and call her a dick-gargling whore. Do you respond by kindly thanking me for using my right to express myself?

I'd probably laugh because of the sheer randomness. Then I'd probably say something like, "Why are you projecting your own fantasy onto someone else?"

Dan · January 18, 2015, 11:55:05 AM

Going to have to agree with PSU on this one. Don't be a pussy and stand up for yourself.

Lemy the Lizerd · January 18, 2015, 12:01:44 PM

Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 11:55:05 AM

Going to have to agree with PSU on this one. Don't be a pussy and stand up for yourself.

I think someone who can't even handle mean words would be the bigger pussy here, friendo.

Naoto · January 18, 2015, 12:07:23 PM

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 18, 2015, 12:01:44 PM

Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 11:55:05 AM
Going to have to agree with PSU on this one. Don't be a pussy and stand up for yourself.
I think someone who can't even handle mean words would be the bigger pussy here, friendo.

Not to mention punching someone in the face for 'talking shit' is a good way to get sued for assault. Sure defend yourself, or others if you have to, but I'd probably just laugh at the people in these hypothetical situations.

But I guess whatever makes people feel badass on the interent.

Dan · January 18, 2015, 12:20:18 PM

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 18, 2015, 12:01:44 PM

Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 11:55:05 AM
Going to have to agree with PSU on this one. Don't be a pussy and stand up for yourself.
I think someone who can't even handle mean words would be the bigger pussy here, friendo.

If someone takes it upon themselves to be intentionally insulting for no good reason, they deserve to get hit. And if they cry that I hurt them, it's their own fault; they walked right into it. Point is, don't be a dick to people and you wont get hurt.

More Than Mortal · January 18, 2015, 12:22:44 PM

Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 12:20:18 PM

If someone takes it upon themselves to be intentionally insulting for no good reason, they deserve to get hit. And if they cry that I hurt them, it's their own fault; they walked right into it. Point is, don't be a dick to people and you wont get hurt.

Or you could not give them the reaction they're looking for, deflate your raging testosterone-filled penis and walk away.

PSU · January 18, 2015, 01:07:00 PM

I feel bad for the women in your lives if someone can walk up to them and call them a dirty whore to their face and yall wouldn't do anything.

That's not "being the bigger man", that's being a pussy.

challengerX · January 18, 2015, 01:36:08 PM

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DAS B00T x2 · January 18, 2015, 01:40:32 PM

Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 12:20:18 PM

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on January 18, 2015, 12:01:44 PM
Quote from: Daniel on January 18, 2015, 11:55:05 AM
Going to have to agree with PSU on this one. Don't be a pussy and stand up for yourself.
I think someone who can't even handle mean words would be the bigger pussy here, friendo.
If someone takes it upon themselves to be intentionally insulting for no good reason, they deserve to get hit. And if they cry that I hurt them, it's their own fault; they walked right into it. Point is, don't be a dick to people and you wont get hurt.

The courts think otherwise.

Lemy the Lizerd · January 18, 2015, 01:52:54 PM

Quote from: PSU on January 18, 2015, 01:07:00 PM

I feel bad for the women in your lives if someone can walk up to them and call them a dirty whore to their face and yall wouldn't do anything.

That's not "being the bigger man", that's being a pussy.

Okay first of all Max this alt isn't even supposed to be from the south you fucking faggot, stop trying to appropriate y'all just because you think it will make you sound dumber. It only makes fucking loser Europoors and wannabe-euros think less of you, normal people don't give a fuck.

Second, you're really not getting to anybody of value with this b8, because anybody with half a brain knows that it's better to talk down or ignore some fucking retard than it is to get assault charges for taking their shitty IRL bait. If somebody strikes you first, everybody knows it's cool to lay the fucker out after that, but we're not fucking dipshits.

PSU · January 18, 2015, 02:13:32 PM

Do you guys honestly believe that anytime you get in a fight its going to end in assault charges?

Is say 99% of fights I've been involved in or seen have ended without any legal reprocusions.

And you don't have to be from the south to say yall.

challengerX · January 18, 2015, 02:15:35 PM

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