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12 October 2020 at 08:13 AM
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by 57 On Red

I don't think wishing death on another poster is altogether OK.

It’s not wishing death on anyone; the statement is true for probably most adults. We don’t euthanize kids.


by Crossnerd

It’s not wishing death on anyone; the statement is true for probably most adults. We don’t euthanize kids.

This is tightrope walking that others get banned for.


by Trolly McTrollson

Huh? You were just telling us you wanted to execute people because it's less cruel, now you want extra cruelty? Collect your thoughts and start over.
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Try to pay attention. I want to execute people who were not of sound adult mind when they killed. I want cruelty for those who were of sound mind and deliberately chose to kill.


by Luckbox Inc

Chomsky put behaviorism to bed in the late 1950s but some people still want to hold onto it.

Chomsky has been wrong about everything he has ever formulated.


by Willd

0.00% of people support gender affirming treatments (where treatment means any form of medication) for pre-pubescent children.

Aren't puberty blockers given to pre-pubescent children? It seems like they should be, by definition. To "block" something, it can't have already started to happen. Maybe the name given to the drugs is wrong. If so, it should be corrected, or most people are likely to think they are given to young children.


by Crossnerd

It’s not wishing death on anyone; the statement is true for probably most adults. We don’t euthanize kids.

We do currently euthanize fetuses - those who are believed to have a condition which will result in a lifetime of pain and suffering. IMO that should also be done with children who are found to have those conditions soon after birth.


by chillrob

Aren't puberty blockers given to pre-pubescent children? It seems like they should be, by definition. To "block" something, it can't have already started to happen. Maybe the name given to the drugs is wrong. If so, it should be corrected, or most people are likely to think they are given to young children.

Puberty doesn't happen all at once. Blockers are generally started around the age puberty is expected to start (~10-12), which is basically the definition I was using as the cutoff for pre-pubescence. It occasionally can be started earlier if signs of puberty are already showing (again, definitionally not pre-pubescent) but can also be started midway through puberty. Obviously they wouldn't be as effective this late but they can still be effective at halting the progression of puberty in these cases too.


by chillrob

We do currently euthanize fetuses - those who are believed to have a condition which will result in a lifetime of pain and suffering. IMO that should also be done with children who are found to have those conditions soon after birth.

Well, that’s insane. And 6 is not “soon after birth”.


by chillrob

Chomsky has been wrong about everything he has ever formulated.

pretty funny seeing Chomsky heavily implicated in the Epstein email logs. turns out he was very likely an intelligence asset or at least whore for power. I dont think he was involved in the sex stuff but maybe...

gotta make you happy bc I can see your hate for the guy is pure.


by chillrob

Try to pay attention. I want to execute people who were not of sound adult mind when they killed. I want cruelty for those who were of sound mind and deliberately chose to kill.

Lemme help you out here. First you said you want to execute dumb people because it's more humane:

by chillrob

Again, execution of those who do not have standard adult human levels of intelligence would not be for punishment or deterrence. It would be to protect society without the cruelty of lifetime incarceration.

Now your position is that you want to execute criminals because it's more cruel? Again, collect your thoughts first before replying.


by Victor

pretty funny seeing Chomsky heavily implicated in the Epstein email logs. turns out he was very likely an intelligence asset or at least whore for power. I dont think he was involved in the sex stuff but maybe...

gotta make you happy bc I can see your hate for the guy is pure.

remember when you debated me and said he must have been part of the sex stuff just because he was associated with him at one point?


well no, bc that didnt happen. I said that just being associated with Epstein was bad enough. if anything, these logs make it much more likely that he was doing the bad things.


by Trolly McTrollson

Lemme help you out here. First you said you want to execute dumb people because it's more humane:

Now your position is that you want to execute criminals because it's more cruel? Again, collect your thoughts first before replying.

That's enough trolling from you. Or else you're actually an idiot.


by Victor

pretty funny seeing Chomsky heavily implicated in the Epstein email logs. turns out he was very likely an intelligence asset or at least whore for power. I dont think he was involved in the sex stuff but maybe...

gotta make you happy bc I can see your hate for the guy is pure.

It wouldn't shock me if he is implicated, but I don't know anything about his personal life.

I don't have any hatred for him either, it just baffles me that anyone thought being a linguist made someone an expert in politics or economics.

When I learned about his contribution to linguistics in college I thought it sounded like BS, and now it has been discredited.


by Crossnerd

Well, that’s insane. And 6 is not “soon after birth”.

I didn't say it was. Come on, I know you're not this stupid.


by chillrob

Chomsky has been wrong about everything he has ever formulated.

No not really. His ideas are the foundation of modern linguistics.


by Crossnerd

It’s not wishing death on anyone; the statement is true for probably most adults. We don’t euthanize kids.

You literally singled-out chillrob as being a candidate to be euthanized over any six-year-old.

Anyone else saying that would have got a temp-ban (or at minimum a warning).


by Luckbox Inc

No not really. His ideas are the foundation of modern linguistics.

His economics aren't really that bad either.

He's super anti authoritarian unlike most lefty Marx loving fools. He doesn’t want a some massive centralized power dictating everyone’s decisions, because he knows that power corrupts everything it touches.

That’s in stark contrast to the typical communist fantasy, which assumes that if authority were just in the right hands, everything would magically be okay.


he also endorsed voting for Hillary Clinton and all Dems for decades so...


by geezerchess

You literally singled-out chillrob as being a candidate to be euthanized over any six-year-old.

Anyone else saying that would have got a temp-ban (or at minimum a warning).

Not for that statement alone, no. It’s pretty self explanatory.


by chillrob

I didn't say it was. Come on, I know you're not this stupid.

It was a really ableist and shitty statement from you either way.


by Crossnerd

A child of that age only has the ability to mirror the adults around them.

Yeah, this isn't correct. Genetics and peers are also highly influential. However, it's impossible to disentangle genetics, shared and non-shared environments to explain an individuals behaviour, never mind predict it.


by Luckbox Inc

No not really. His ideas are the foundation of modern linguistics.

Give a read to this.


by formula72

His economics aren't really that bad either.He's super anti authoritarian unlike most lefty Marx loving fools. He doesn’t want a some massive centralized power dictating everyone’s decisions, because he knows that power corrupts everything it touches. That’s in stark contrast to the typical communist fantasy, which assumes that if authority were just in the right hands, everyt

Anarcho-communism is even more ridiculous than Marxism.


by Crossnerd

It was a really ableist and shitty statement from you either way.

Exactly what statement are you referring to here?

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