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If it means pissing off my boss if I don't, even if it is stupid, I'd probably move the pencil to not cause trouble over nothing. I'm not a child.
by roflyear 4y ago
If it means pissing off my boss if I don't, even if it is stupid, I'd probably move the pencil to not cause trouble over nothing. I'm not a child.
- lostmsu 4y agoHow about a totally unrelated to you person? And you also know there's a viral campaign to make random people move pencils 1cm to the left?
- roflyear 4y agoI think you're really blowing this out of the water here and making a bigger deal than it is. I'm in a very liberal area and this hasn't come up at all. To me it sounds like you're against discussing those things - which sounds like trying to suppress speech, imo.
- lostmsu 4y agoRidiculous. We are discussing it right now. Clearly you are not thinking but feeling instead.
- skinnymuch 4y agoHow is everyone wrong except you?
- lostmsu 4y ago> everyone You are taking on a lot here. Besides, number of people agreeing has no consequences on objective reality. So I disagree with both validity/applicability of the argument, and its premise.
- roflyear 4y agoWe're not discussing the merits of using "main" over "master" - we haven't discussed that at all. You're making some politically charged (b/c of the phrases and language you're using, I feel it is this way) argument about why it's bad to change terms of things in general. We haven't gotten to the point of discussing the benefits of this specific thing, and to me it seems like you don't want to discuss them (or the lack of them) b/c you're sold on it being a bad thing, no matter what. It is obviously good to change certain terms. For example, we don't call Asian people Orientals anymore.
- freejazz 4y agoWhen your example boils down to something so ridiculous, it's a statement on you, not the thing you are debating.
- lostmsu 4y agoLol what? The thread here is asking why would I or anyone else would refuse to tolerate a "minor inconvenience". And the example is spot on. Keep up man, you are out of line with personal attacks.
- freejazz 4y agoYeah and the best defense you have to your position is a ridiculous example about a pencil. You can't engage with the hypo because you can't genuinely make your argument in it, so you are talking about pencils. I'm not stupid. Your argument is a personal attack to everyone's intelligence because it's so specious.
- lostmsu 4y agoYou are calling an argument ridiculous, but you are not making any explanation why is it ridiculous. This claim is baseless, and any further claim you base on that is therefore baseless too.