He/Him Jack of all trades, master of none

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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • Usually if the person who made something is a massive piece of shit, that just puts me off it entirely. For example, Rurouni Kenshin might be considered one of the best animes of all time, but I cannot watch it without thinking about the fact that the guy who made it had so much child porn. Sours everything the fucker touched

    Like, maybe I could learn to separate the art from the artist, but… why would I? There’s already more art than I could ever consume made by people who don’t jerk it to kids


  • Depends how fast everyone else is going. If I’m the only one on the road, then I’m going the speed limit. Don’t want any cops using me to fill their quotas. If someone zooms by at 15 over the limit, I call them a canary, checking the coal mine for speed traps. If they don’t get pulled over going 75 in a 60, then I can safely go 65.

    If there’s a bunch of cars all speeding, then I’ll keep pace with them unless they’re going over 70. At that point it just isn’t worth it to exponentially increase the energy of a collision while logarithmically reducing the time it takes to get to my destination. I’m not going to double my kinetic energy so I can save 15 seconds on my trip.

    …wait, I think I misunderstood the question



  • You did it when you spent a considerable amount of space explaining how sexual abuse is different because these abusers don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, so society needs a way to police them.

    Nope. I actually never once advocated for more surveillance, and in fact tacitly argued against it in this comment. I spent a considerate amount of space explaining why this is a massive issue that can’t easily be solved by simply telling people not to commit sexual assault, and that in order to reduce it, we need to educate people on what sexual assault is and instill in them the fact that they are capable of committing it. Like, I literally said that the problem was largely that we live in a society that normalizes sexual assault. This isn’t something that more surveillance could solve.

    […] and presented a huge cultural shift as the solution. This neatly leaves the uncareful reader to potentially conclude that the surveilance is a reasonable approach to deal with an intractable social problem.

    No. The “huge cultural shift” I was talking about was a shift away from a culture that rationalizes and justifies sexual assault, which I made clear in the same paragraph in which I said “enormous cultural shift.” I forgot that Lemmings can’t read, and that was my bad.

    *Edited the formatting to make my argument flow better