DaveC426913
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And I'm still not American.I'm still fuckin' sad.
And I'm still not American.I'm still fuckin' sad.
Perhaps it is localized. At the sending end, not the receiving end.If it was localized, one might be able to confine and understand it,
Am I to assume I'm the sender?Perhaps it is localized. At the sending end, not the receiving end.
Ah. I see.Perhaps a flashlight: Retribution has been posting responses, in other threads, to other matters, in which they (gender neutral singular) disparage other people's responses (which is what such posters do in lieu of argument etc) as founded in morality and therefore weak.
Now somebody posts research establishing that people who are informed that their views are founded in morality are strengthened in them, rather than weakened.
Then three assumptions swing into action: the general public here has been following that exchange with care and attention; the poster he has been addressing can be taken to have been reading his posts as information, as having been "told" something by them - that such was the role of those posts; that the posts had footing and meaning to begin with and have been thereby wrongfooted in some humorous and meaningful manner.
Which is all echoes from the walls of a garbage can with few occupants - possibly only one, two at the most. No need to open and investigate - the truck is coming, and it's just a wingnut radio feed anyway.
Maybe she's here because...What are you doing here?
Why would you assume I thought she was responding to the OP?Do you really think "she" was responding to the OP?
Very first line might indicate otherwise, even to the most casual of observers.
Hmm yeah..Fuck, man. Go ask Bells. She's Australian. She'll tell y'all what you want to hear.
I'll just go away from this thread and be all sad and shit. Y'know?
Safe to say then that you're pushing to get banned?Ah well, I'm going to bed now. Long night.
We'll see what turns up here in the morning. I wonder if you know how depressing it is that I already have a fairly good idea of what it might be.
...even to the extent that, having said this, just now, it may be nothing at all.
Pity about Plasma's thread, really. I wonder where y'all gonna try to lay the blame for that.
Safe to say then that you're pushing to get banned?
Uh, no, just filling in some context for those completely baffled by your posting in this thread.retribution said:Basically your "flashlight" is illuminating something I conceded in my very first response... post #2.
So universal bafflement is what you expected, and anticipated reacting to in your visible manner above? Seems a bit unkind to PI's thread.retribution said:Three assumptions....
1. I have no real idea. Been checking on who is reading what, but that only reveals two or three posters left watching anything at all.
No. You can't push off nothing. Newton.retribution said:2. Their own choice, and push come to shove, at the heart of the matter.
That's what I was explaining, to the baffled thread. You thought (or at least claimed as a presumption) you were posting (in the other thread) something relevant to (or implicated by, or whatever) a research article about people "informed" of a moral basis for their opinions.retribution said:3. Not quite sure of your basis. I certainly thought they had meaning;
Yep.For many people, morality implies a universality, an ultimate truth. It is a conviction that is not easily changed.
Yep.
I suppose it depends on what you are willing to sacrifice in pursuit of the moral high ground. Would you sacrifice freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the democratic process to ensure your position is the most prevalent? I wouldn't.You want to be that guy - the one who tells the moral stalwarts what their morality is.
That guy isn't seeking a moral high ground. He just wants to be king of the hill. And being in the position of telling a whole lot of people who will do and believe almost anything if given moral grounds what their morality is, what those grounds are, is a ticket to the crown.bowser said:I suppose it depends on what you are willing to sacrifice in pursuit of the moral high ground.