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At least you seem to care when your lack of empathy is pointed out. That's something fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 17/05/2020 05:58:02 PM

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"There's a thing that exists. I offer no evidence of that, and I preemptively reject any evidence of the opposite! I just assert you are a bad person for not discerning these qualities in a made-up person."


There is no topic we have discussed on this board more than Egwene. Go search through them if you want "evidence".

I have used that word once in regard to the China Flu, and in the context of suggesting the people to whom I applied the modifier be permitted to be risked, while concentrating on protecting those who were not. I was calling for focusing exclusively on those at risk, I was not valuing people for their utility or any other context in which the use of that word might be said to suggest an immoral attitude. It was a derisive criticism of the overreach of public policy by pointing out that there was no practical societal interest in compelling a certain class of people to protect themselves. Humanitarian concerns do not trump the personal rights of the subjects of that concern. Period. My right to do what I want far outweighs ANYONE's concern for my well-being. The ONLY interest anyone else may assert in my protection is the degree to which they depend upon me, the degree to which I am useful. My contention was that the portion of the populace on whom the rest of society might be said to depend was at negligible risk to the disease. I was not, for instance, using utility as a triage category.

You have absolutely no reasoning skills. You have a set of blind preconceptions to which you slot everyone and everything and then just adhere to those conceptions without bothering to consider facts or comprehend the actual meaning or context of words.


No matter what explanatory conceit you come up with, the fact that you think some section of the population can be labeled "useful" is what I was talking about.

And no, you great big moron, no one cares for your personal safety over your rights. We do care about your ability to spread the disease to others and trample on <I>their</I> right to life. If you only put yourself at risk by some action, have at it. Immolate yourself in fire, for all I care.

But when you propose a set of behaviors, in the name of freedom, that let you pass a virus on to others, you have no right to do that. Your rights are contingent on you not destroying another's.

That you fail to see that is both a sign of your complete lack of empathy. And your utter idiocy. You don't need an advanced degree in biology to get this. Fucking retard.

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