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For a change. Lol.

Still a fair old whack o' work. I'm only on for four hours teaching. I reckon I'll give myself two or three hours sleep and I'll be fine.

How long's your shift?

Have to get up for work in about four hours. Sleep or push through?

I just hope @"ArguingWAristotleTiff" didn't see that last comment. I'd much rather we talked about pumpkins. :)

I meant "... necessarily right or wrong". Poetic licence. :)

It's much more likely correlation than causation. I doubt causation is impossible but then neither is violent video games reducing levels of violence.

So, @"Agustino", through a twisted tunnel of linguistic thorns we have arrived finally at the hidden palace of understanding. And what lies there awak...

It seems like that, doesn't it?

Some rights are not worth having. If the right to have a gun effectively translates into the right to live in a more violent society and thus the righ...

I didn't say it was, but the example we were discussing specified someone who doesn't forgive and asks only for a just punishment. Sure.

Ok, so in this case being unforgiving would not be wrong. So, it seems to me it's not being unforgiving per se that you consider wrong but wishing har...

Interesting question. Just a quick one and I'll get back to this: Grammatical gender appears to be arbitrary or at least partially arbitrary in most l...

He was a dodgy bugger, I'll give you that.

This is completely backwards. Rapists are not "punishing" women for something the woman did to them. The rapist is abusing the woman and should themse...

Does anger not have in common with love the fact that is an emotional state though an opposing one? Can we not talk of anger vs acts of anger as well ...

You misunderstand. I mean name an emotional state. This makes zero sense. I am the one saying the victim should not be blamed. You are the one claimin...

Love is not an emotional state? What is then? Also, do you agree we can be unforgiving without wanting to unjustly punish the one who harmed us? If so...

Do you not acknowledge that we can be in an emotional state without approving of it? So, for example, we can be angry without approving of (the mode o...

+UVF, UDA, UFF, INLA etc.

I'm outside now so I'll come back to it later. Hopefully, we can move on to more sensible territory. Good luck. I'll miss the ankle biting. ;)

Yes, yes, I love @"Agustino" too. Look at it as me helping him not to say stuff that may result in grievous bodily harm against him. Besides which, we...

You weren't just saying it's preferable, you were saying if they don't, they are guilty of approving the horrific acts that were inflicted upon them. ...

I'm not going to continue to give you English lessons and I'm not going to let you away with that comment. If you remain confused, quickly grab a dict...

@"Agustino" also seems to presume that victims of harmful acts are capable of forgiving those who have harmed them (otherwise how could it be wrong fo...

I'm justifiably looking for a justification. My basic point here is there is no sense that a woman who is raped "approves" of the act on the basis of ...

What you think isn't important. What you argue for might be. So, go ahead.

No, I'm not equivocating. "To approve" of something involves believing it is good, acceptable or satisfactory. If you don't then you don't "approve" o...

Really? Based on what research? AI experts can't even come up with a decent chatbot. What you're talking about is building a functioning person.

So, you believe those men who don't forgive those who rape their wives approve of their wives being raped. OK. Can you take a look at the edited examp...

A man rapes your wife. She doesn't forgive him. Does that mean she approves of his actions? And at what point should she forgive him? I would say forg...

Yes, because you judge them in the sense I meant.

You seem to be using the word "judging" in the derogatory sense, which means essentially "unfairly judging", something like being prejudiced. I'm usin...

I'm breaking down your door as we speak. :D

If you'll just open the door and then we can talk. Oh, never mind, I'll speak through the keyhole. No, it doesn't. Which is why that defence would not...

OK, can we give the guy a break now? No need to mourn the death of an apostrophe.

This is incoherent. We constantly judge our neighbours. We've been designed that way and it's impossible not to judge at some level. Those that couldn...

The difference to me seems to be a matter of trust. You can forgive someone on the basis of compassion alone but true reconciliation requires a rebuil...

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Let us know how it goes anyhow. (Y)

Although he was good in that one with the cool music where he played a leather jacket.

Don't like Goosebling all that much. Not convinced.

I just saw that. Lol :D Anyway, this joke is far deeper. Dig a little. You'll get there.

Takes 60 votes to break a fillibuster. Q: How many chickens does it take to stop a light bulb crossing the road? A: Quine.

Topps, cool. We had a Topps factory near where I lived when I was young. I used to collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. Oh, the joy... /uploads/resized/fi...

I messed up at work too. I supported a new university rule that allowed students to carry bazookas on campus. Luckily, I don't bear any responsibility...

Lol

@"ArguingWAristotleTiff" Yes, I do support those people you mentioned. It sounds like unfair discrimination to me. And I'm sure if there was any gun c...

Ah, I missed the part where @"Hanover" said lots of crazy stuff about no-one being responsible for anything they support or don't support except me wh...

I'm not unsympathetic to your personal situation, and I would support a solution that would still allow someone like you to have a regular gun or rifl...