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mircea_popescu: you seriously contemplate teh notion i'm not aware of "veil of ignorance" etc ?
mircea_popescu: justJanne "most of society" that gets a voice, which is bored women.
mircea_popescu: dun make those statements, they're stupid things for stupid people. here, this, blah.
mircea_popescu: this is not an issue, for as long as they understand that this is ok for them and unpleasant for others.
mircea_popescu: and, in a fascinating turn of what sexism really is, remember that one time when ben_vulpes had a friend over, about the same age, about the same ideas and i bit his head off ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, we agree. i don't visit the us for the exact same reasons.
mircea_popescu: tbh the best part was where she didn't wanna take a trip to the us because satan lives there.
mircea_popescu: justJanne just because you think yourself equal to things you don't understand doesn't make 'em so :D
mircea_popescu: in most of the world (defined as africa), females must have their bits cut off.
mircea_popescu: the counterpart being that you can never impose a contract on anyone.
mircea_popescu: hey, lex pacta. you can make a contract say whatever you wish it to say
mircea_popescu: the fact that i convey a claim against you to him does not mean he inherited it from me.
mircea_popescu: fascinating what cultural nationality turns out to be.
mircea_popescu perceives the deep, faint marks of ancient saxon legal strictures in the girl's attempt.
mircea_popescu: that's the way it goes. if you have children, you lose your juvenile figure.
mircea_popescu: doesn't mean you can run around sticking bottles up your ass.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so a bottle and a penis are, for a flatworm, "the same"
mircea_popescu: the debts of your parents is a novel development, wasn't discussed before.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the situation where you're poor because daddy was a drunk is neither your punishment nor your responsibility.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between punishment and responsibility.
mircea_popescu: these have precise and rather subtle meanings, is all.
mircea_popescu: for instance, i didn't say people should be punished for what ancestors did. you conflated two statements : 1) that you can't expect me to pay for the poor behaviour of one's ancestors and 2) that i punish people by what they are rather than they wish to be.
mircea_popescu: justJanne the impression you get comes from you observing what's being said with too broad a brush.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nothing a summer's worth of lurk moar can't fix.
mircea_popescu: most of the discussion flows as "comonly held belief 1" "why" "because 2" "why" "because 3" why" "because 1.1" etc
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that we're going "off topic", as there isn't a topic. the problem is that you very badly suck at most verbal and cognitive tasks. but hopefully we've run the gamut by now.
mircea_popescu: what, you want her to end up in aaron schwartz's cell ?
mircea_popescu: you may not speak french, but i do read german nooblet.
mircea_popescu: the entire point of life is diferentiation from the median.
mircea_popescu: places with high medians are places not worth living in.
mircea_popescu: she has a point. it does lower the average but increase the median
mircea_popescu: and because the government can alter the deal, here, it's a new law now.
mircea_popescu: in any case the poor girls without the bits can't grow them back up, so in order for everyone to have equal chances at an orgasm, off with your clit!
mircea_popescu: davout we just made larger logblocks, how you like it ?