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Kustra, BA wrote:goddamn shep is a fucking idiot and i wish to rip apart his loathsome lust for william sherman and dash it to pieces on the ground, and if his heart comes out with that and is ripped apart so much the better

but then i remembered that shep has no heart

He's a Civil War general, right?

Yeah, Sherman was a Union general. Famous for being turned loose to sack and pillage his way through Georgia and burn shit down along the way.

Ouch

yes. a lot of people like shep have a huge hard-on because of the supposed devastation of his campaigns, which is ridiculously exaggerated by neo-confederates to play up sympathy for their cause

e.g. he fought "total war" but refrained from targeting civilians or even attacking civilian properties deliberately, in opposition to the douhetist philosophies shep lurves of attacking civilians directly

he also, after the war, served with a mixed record commanding the us army in the plains wars. he advocated destruction and slaughter of the lakota and other sioux nations but spoke out against exploitation of native americans on the reservations afterwards.

Losonti Tokash wrote:fact: crows are better than humans

they had a bird person from the local zoo on the news

and she was saying "crows are often smarter than your family dog"

"and sometimes outsmart you"


whoa

of course crows rok they are hella smart

fascinating animals

Kustra, BA wrote:yes. a lot of people like shep have a huge hard-on because of the supposed devastation of his campaigns, which is ridiculously exaggerated by neo-confederates to play up sympathy for their cause

e.g. he fought "total war" but refrained from targeting civilians or even attacking civilian properties deliberately, in opposition to the douhetist philosophies shep lurves of attacking civilians directly

he also, after the war, served with a mixed record commanding the us army in the plains wars. he advocated destruction and slaughter of the lakota and other sioux nations but spoke out against exploitation of native americans on the reservations afterwards.

Well him and Maya can go have a circlejerk over killing Georgians then.

uraniun235 wrote:

uraniun235 wrote:

Veef wrote:The test is over. From this moment on you are a Raven.

that's hot

starglider detected :v

no it's like the first mission in armored core

because armored core is my waifu

fucin ravens nest

interspace future mercenaries hve a website straight from geocities

oh so when i left my house to go to merkz for tv night

omg the birds apparently got driven out of downtown

and decided to set up shop outside my door


so i have like a ten yard trip down the driveway

which has trees all above it


CAW CAW splat CAW CAW CAW splat splat CAW


oh my there must have been at least a thousand of them

i'm not even j/kin


so i figure i'll just have to dive through it

normally you have to use thrusters only until you leave the spacedock

but i totally violated the regulations

no, not one quarter impulse power

WARP FACTOR ONE



so as i passed through it startled the birds and they all started to fly

the sound was deafening

the sky was blacked out

(well the sun already went down so lol but i'm telling you that was a lot of fucking birds)



then once i got on the road for the two mile trip


not another bird seen the whole time

uraniun235 wrote:Yeah, Sherman was a Union general. Famous for being turned loose to sack and pillage his way through Georgia and burn shit down along the way.

They had it coming.

alyrum

alyrum

These things are NOT arbitrary. What are ethics? Principles applied to govern how we ought interact with others. What is the underpinning of it? Well, we have this thing, it is called empathy. We also have logic.

philosophy 205 i think was the name of that class that talked about this on day 1

sure i failed it

but that's because i couldn't find the final exam. i was there on day 1 tho

i think i just made a full concession to simon_jester

it all seemed reasonable to me


i need to shower

Hey, adr, whether they realize it or not, you just won. You proved willing to consider ideas that disagree with yours.

he'll be banned for sure now

man how much of ruining the mental landscape of teo is attributable to considering 'concession accepted' a statement of complete mastery over an ignorant fool

so i bought 2 pounds of mini donuts saturday

and almost have eaten them all already



no wonder i'm putting on weight

fatty nerd

i've been going on a chocolate milk binge

So I have these gift cards from the holidays still, including $100 at JT Schmidts, which is a p nice place (Microbrew, Steaks, etc..) across from the Honda Center where the Ducks play and I just so happen to have a day off and just so happen to have tickets to the game tonight (playing the hated FLAMES) but that is not the point.

The point is the amazing meal I would have never been able to afford otherwise, a menu item known as the $20 burger.

It's a big burger, topped with prime rib (sliced thin), add bacon, then cheese, toasted brioche bun. Fuckin' A. I don't know if I would pay $20 of my own money for such a meal, but oh it was damn fine, and this place actually does do rare which was perfect because dry prime rib is not much fun.

starku wrote:fucin ravens nest

interspace future mercenaries hve a website straight from geocities

japanese home pages are notorious for being awful

adr if you were in an intro ethics class that started by saying "ethics and moral judgments are arbitrary" then it must have been a very unusual class

i mean alyrium is wrong if he thinks "the underpinning of ethics" is "empathy", and that's all there is to it

but you're making some philosophically outrageous claims in that thread

sorry

the empathy and logic thing being some objective truth is what i mean there

btw if you want to say more i wouldn't mind here or there

your posts are pretty good stuff to read

let's hijack the lightsabre thread woooooooooooooooo

adr wrote:btw if you want to say more i wouldn't mind here or there

your posts are pretty good stuff to read

thank you, i appreciate it

i can't post more over there because red was like "if you're not in the debate already then please don't start dogpiling now" and if i entered the thread, then he'd have to moderate it, or else people would be all "OMG NEPOTISM" and they'd have a point

(ps we should get that police light smiley back in, i needed that for "omg nepotism")

i might post more here later today, when i have time. i'm going out for lunch soon. but just for a quick thing -- i'm guessing you don't really believe there are no "morally inconsiderable" things. like i doubt you go through life worrying about whether you're mistreating the grass you step on, the bacteria you kill when you use antibiotics, etc. let alone inanimate objects like rocks and articles of clothing.

if i'm wrong, then you live a more ethically agonized life than anyone i know

i agree with you that if i were given the choice to kill one bacterium, or let it live, i would let it live. but i wouldn't be doing it for the sake of the bacterium itself -- i'd be doing it for the (very small) chance that killing the bacterium would upset some ecosystem that had a causal effect on beings with more interesting mental lives (which is not limited to humans obvs). if there were someone who would benefit from the death of the bacterium, then i would kill the bacterium without a second thought

another quick thing -- in general, just because something is a potential X doesn't mean it has all the moral or legal rights of a real X. like, my sister is 13 and so she's a potential 16-year-old and 18-year-old, but she can't drive or vote.