explain to me this logic

>uninteresting/inconsequential topic
>post "i don't care"
>"you cared enough to respond"

what

what

i cared enough to respond... yeah, i did

i cared to let you know that i don't care about the topic

that doesn't mean i care about the topic though
you stupid fuck

am i MISSING something here
why do people always post this inane response whenever anyone dares to type "i don't care"

are you just upset or something
is that your way of getting back at me for not caring

what is it
i wanna know

j&d eats shit compared to r&c

who fucking cares

If all humans jumped up and landed at the same time, would it cause an earthquake?

considering that if every single person on earth stood shoulder to shoulder, we would only be able to fill up the city of los angeles...

i doubt that it would do much

"The BBC did this with 50,000 people, and discovered that, a kilometer and a half away, it only registered as a 0.6 on the Richter scale. You would need seven million times more people than even live on Earth right now to jump at once to recreate the earthquake that recently happened in Japan."

they're probably eyebrows, yeah

i think you're overthinking this, just like every beta guy ever

and i never use that term

this video could have been thirty seconds

god given

sounds exactly like two songs off the record smooshed together
trite, almost irritating cell-phone ringtone of a chorus
poorly constructed and boring instrumental
lame, preachy lyrics
"come on! sing along! everybody now!"

i think it's done ironically, but... it just... doesn't... work
ironic shitsinging is still shitsinging

yes

I mean, look at those. Each and every one of them warps gravity, they're so improbably gigantic.

what if i told you that that's precisely the reason why i hate anime so much

i mean idk how you don't know that

By my understanding of the terms, liberty begets self-reliance.

Yeah. I just thought I'd be that pedantic guy so no one else has to be.

There's nothing inherently virtuous about being a human, and thus nothing to be lost by acting in the way that you so describe. This actually ties in quite nicely with the determinism discussion we were having a few threads over; it actually helps me understand and cope with the things you list.

We're apes. Hairless, violent apes--with nukes, no less. But, in saying that, we're still intelligent. It's not at all surprising that some people have really fucked value-systems, I mean, we're only just stumbling out of the dark ages. I don't feel animosity towards people for being stupid--not in the long-term anyway--because we are a stupid species. All species are.

Heh. You just called us intelligent and stupid in the same paragraph.

I'd opt for the word "sapient". It's in our binomial nomenclature.

I didn't hack challengerX; he's posted this himself...

Quote from: Verbatim on January 15, 2015, 12:08:16 PM

Would you not lock up natural disasters if you could, or am I missing your point there?

No, I'm saying the fact that we lack a "true" moral responsibility doesn't lead to a lack of morality. We would lock up hurricanes, earthquakes, dangerous bears (and so on) if we could purely as a matter of public safety. And we should continue doing so in the case of murderous psychopaths. We can quite forcefully and correctly say what we ought to do, even if people are at a disadvantage (or even completely incapable) of doing such things.

Okay, gotcha. It just sounded like to me that you were going down this more nihilistic path at first, and that would've been my sort of "moral obligation" to promptly dissuade you from that. lol

I mean, your title alone is enough to have suggested that, really. If moral responsibility required free will, you wouldn't see so many morally responsible determinists. The way I see it, determinism would be synonymous with nihilism, if that was the case.

This is also partly why I hate words like "moral" and "ethics". The words themselves, the concepts, are sort of incompatible with determinism--we just have all this matter that does a lot of stuff, and it can be either good stuff, or it can be bad stuff. Avoid the bad stuff. There's no real word for it. Does there need to be? "Responsibility" is a good word.