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People are, as a rule, small and obedient creatures. They like to be told what to do. Shortsighted and small-minded. And, in packs, vicious yapping beasts. How do you resolve this?

To clarify the point for my four-legged friends. How do you resolve the incongruity between this and the conventional view? Which is that people are self-aware creatures with valuable opinions .

Dr_Satan OP ,

It’s the smell. It offends me.

Dr_Satan OP ,

I value my conversations. And when they are taken from me I am robbed. That is a form of harm.

You do not feel similarly?

Dr_Satan OP ,

That would be thin solace. Like getting your dead cat taxidermized.

Dr_Satan OP ,

You are either playing a game or incredibly obtuse.

Dr_Satan OP ,

I just had exactly such a thing happen in this sub earlier today.

The kind of person who does that, who justifies it to themself, I can’t relate.

Dr_Satan OP ,

Without a process for appeal and review we all know how that goes. We are not infants.

Dr_Satan OP ,

Obtuse it is.

Dr_Satan OP ,

Biased is fine. Hell I’m biased. It’s the utter obliviousness to decent behavior that bugs me.

Dr_Satan OP ,

Does reading comprehension just drop off every time there’s a solar flare?

We’re talking a couple hundred people. Materially expressing a big YES for the conversation.

But the moderator’s single opinion morally overrules that because the rules say so.

That’s absurd.

Dr_Satan OP ,

But it isn’t my individual opinion that the moderator contradicts.

It’s the opinion of a couple hundred participants in the conversation tree. Who have expressed their enthusiastic YES through participation.

Surely the moderator’s single NO doesn’t outweigh that, morally speaking.

Dr_Satan OP ,

But it isn’t just me. It’s a couple hundred people. Who clearly desire to converse. Some agree, some disagree, some are undecided and some are learning something new.

But one person’s opinion trumps all that?

Surely you see how utterly fucked that is.

Dr_Satan OP ,

You are like the 10th person to make this weird overlooking of the facts.

It isn’t just one person. It’s a couple hundred people. With a hundred different points of view. Enthusiastically conversing.

That outweighs a single person’s judgment. Yes, even if he is offended by the subject

Dr_Satan OP ,

But it isn’t just me. It’s a couple hundred people. Who have voted YES, enthusiastically, by their participation. They clearly want to continue talking.

But one person’s opinion overrides that? That’s crazy.

Dr_Satan OP ,

And they misunderstood my point, triggered dopes that they are. And the post was removed before I could reply.

Christ, you people are so smug in your imbecilic dark holes.

Dr_Satan OP ,

But it’s one opinion vs hundreds. They have a party and one man cancels it. surely

Dr_Satan OP ,

I think that people are, as a rule, small and obedient creatures. They like to be told what to do. Shortsighted and small-minded. And, in packs, vicious yapping beasts.

Dr_Satan OP ,

But you avoided my point.

Hundreds say yes. You say no. But your opinion wins. Is that immoral?

Dr_Satan OP ,

You should actually address my point.

“Love it or fuck off” is so kindergarten.

Dr_Satan OP ,

Good answer. Kudos on the factorial alphabetization too.

Dr_Satan OP ,

The shamans of yore called spectrum maladies “the teaching disease”. Because it provides a rare and valuable lesson about an important (to shamans) part of our reality.

Like a periodic bump might lead one do discover wheels, cars, ic engines and the field of mechanics. But a smooth ride leaves you oblivious.

Dr_Satan OP ,

You spelled “maybe” wrong.

Dr_Satan OP ,

I’m an alien since birth. Getting better at understanding them.

Dr_Satan OP ,

yes you did

Dr_Satan OP ,

don’t call me buddy, friend

Dr_Satan OP ,

You people are so duvmxd I can’t bear to even spell it

Dr_Satan OP ,

Here’s one advantage of being a victim. Your assertions are given an automatic +1 veracity. Because no one dare question your suffering.

Here’s one disadvantage of being a victim. It’s a disempowering narrative.

Dr_Satan OP ,

How dare you diminish my suffering.

Dr_Satan OP ,

That’s so full of yikes that I just can’t.

Dr_Satan OP ,

I can’t imagine there’s anybody that has never been victimized. What a deranged concept.

Dr_Satan OP , (edited )

I am aware of the popular narrative.

AND there is this other, implied, narrative.

Both exist.

Both have weight.

When we make the exception we necessarily assert both.

Dr_Satan OP ,

I think that, by not addressing the implied narrative, you leave it unspoken therefore unargued. Thus giving it power.

Ignorance is no path to success, surely.

Dr_Satan OP ,

When you are handed a crutch it is implied that you cannot walk.

Dr_Satan OP ,

To get a fact out of an observation requires interpretation and a desire-to-interpret. It’s observation translated into dreamstuff.

Dr_Satan OP ,

That’s beautiful. If I was tuneful I’d set it to music.

Dr_Satan OP , (edited )

You’ll have to explain it to me.

Dr_Satan OP , (edited )

Independent thought and action. Sensitivity without fragility. Those are high points.

The 99% is like a grain of sand embedded in a glacier. Moves with the glacier.

Dr_Satan OP , (edited )

Re the first : I wouldn’t call those guys smart. I’d call them specialists.

Re the second : well yes, the truly smart guy would be aware of the limits of his understanding.

Dr_Satan OP , (edited )

Agreed

But there are other abilities, like self awareness and unflappability, that strike me as indispensable.

Dr_Satan OP ,

No that was the other guy.

Dr_Satan ,

Believing/disbelieving whatever story about the existence/nonexistence of “god” (or anything else) matters not one whit to me. This obsession with stories that you people share. I do not share it.

That “you gotta be obsessed with stories like me” stereotype.

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