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Is the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?
Yes 42%  42%  [ 10 ]
No 58%  58%  [ 14 ]
Total votes : 24

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20 Oct 2010, 6:39 pm

How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?



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20 Oct 2010, 6:44 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?


All crimes are by nature offensive to someone.


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20 Oct 2010, 6:49 pm

Macbeth wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?


All crimes are by nature offensive to someone.


True enough, but the nature of being offended by itself is not involving anything other than emotionalism.



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21 Oct 2010, 3:52 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?


it could be that they're not taking your poll seriously.


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21 Oct 2010, 7:11 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?
Most likely your poll is an example of the excluded middle fallacy.


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21 Oct 2010, 7:19 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
How is it possible that 50% of the people who voted would actually think that the act of offending someone the most reprehensible of all crimes?
Most likely your poll is an example of the excluded middle fallacy.


Of which what middle is there when the question asks whether it is at a maximum point? Such either is or isn't. But go on, define what the meaning of the word "is" is.



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21 Oct 2010, 7:31 pm

The OP is an attempt at satirizing hate speech laws, so don't take all of Iamnotaparakeet's assertions as genuine.

As for the "offensiveness" act itself, I'd be in danger as many of my antireligious comments have offended people - and most of those people have been atheists*!

* Albeit of the "fathatheist" variety.


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21 Oct 2010, 7:37 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
The OP is an attempt at satirizing hate speech laws, so don't take all of Iamnotaparakeet's assertions as genuine.


I don't know whether to thank you or to roast you, although roasted turkey is a fairly good addition to thanksgiving. :twisted:



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21 Oct 2010, 7:43 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
The OP is an attempt at satirizing hate speech laws, so don't take all of Iamnotaparakeet's assertions as genuine.


I don't know whether to thank you or to roast you, although roasted turkey is a fairly good addition to thanksgiving. :twisted:


I wouldn't recommend "trying" to roast me. :wink:

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21 Oct 2010, 7:49 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
The OP is an attempt at satirizing hate speech laws, so don't take all of Iamnotaparakeet's assertions as genuine.


I don't know whether to thank you or to roast you, although roasted turkey is a fairly good addition to thanksgiving. :twisted:


I wouldn't recommend "trying" to roast me. :wink:

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What about me having a maxed out fleet of capital ships along with a fully upgraded Argonev Space Station:

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21 Oct 2010, 8:02 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
What about me having a maxed out fleet of capital ships along with a fully upgraded Argonev Space Station:

[img][800:768]http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af221/Numerarius5988AM/ArgonevKickingButt.gif[/img]


You can have as many science fictional ships as you like, but the sheer rhetorical force of my rhetorical tank would persuade all the Grand Moffs and other Imperial personnel to see things my way and start performing same-sex marriages on their ships.


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21 Oct 2010, 8:22 pm

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As said, Pol Pot tried exactly that during the time he raped Cambodia.

It was somewhat successful. He killed 2 million of an 8 million population.

And my parents were refugees from his regime.

Shoot, if it was me, I'd round up all the people who bullied me, make them wear Victoria's Secret PINK, stuff them into a bus and weld the doors/windows shut and push said bus off Highway 1...