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That's Mew.

You specified that no explanation was necessary! In either event, the kitten just wants cuddles!

Sorry, I upvoted Kobold...kittens are my main weakness.

damnation straight! Unfortunately, the family programming on this forum prevents that here...And a Christmas avatar sounds like a great idea! I was thinking of keeping old Satan around after my Ookla madness passed...But I have just the Thing for a holiday avatar!

From time to time, like in the Planet Hulk storyline, he'll run across weapons that can hurt him.

Yeah, yeah...I skipped V... But Allomancy wants to start that. So until he does, post your random stuff here and when Allomancy starts the proper thread, the mods can combine threads or send this one to the Void! Edit: Curses! The admins decided to go with a Star Wars reference instead!

Two things: approach the subject with the respect it deserves. That'll help you avoid most of the pitfalls of writing about delicate subjects. This adjust includes research so you don't do a gaffe based entirely on ignorance.Second, write to please yourself. If others like it, great! If not, they can go storm themselves.

Strictly speaking, what Kobold said as written is correct. But I also think the jihadists could be following the Golden Rule, just not for the reason Kobold set forth.Consider: I might say that I would hope someone would stop me, even if it meant killing me, should I ever lose my rational faculties and start trying to harm someone. As a result, I would be justified in killing someone hopped up on bath salts who was trying to eat someone's face. Now, the jihadist might believe and hope that if he were ever to become a heathen, he would want to be saved from such a position, even if it meant death, and would be able to justify violent actions as necessary using the Golden Rule. I say they could, but I doubt this reasoning even enters their mind (reducing the previous to a mere criticism of the Golden Rule, not an actual bonafide example of it). People in these cases usually think in terms of "The greater good". This could be the greater good of Sharia law, the greater good of God, the greater good of Western Civilization, the greater good of establishing a future Utopia or Zion, the greater good of the needs of the many...etc. Of course, if faced with the Golden Rule or it's variations/improvements, these people may in fact believe that, since they would be willing to sacrifice all for the "greater good", they would not in fact be violating the Golden Rule by in fact sacrificing everything. Edit to add: If we go with Delightful's love/respect version of the Golden Rule, that is considerably less problematic than "do unto others as you would have done unto you".

Well, it is a long post and I am suppose to be working...And reading stuff on a phone can be difficult I do not think you can equate wholesale "escape from misery" with "trying to find happiness". And it simplifies suicide (granted, it could be argued that I did that first, but shrug). People oft times are just trying to find an "end"...not relief, which is temporary, but a final end. To pain, depression, or one's absurd meaningless existence. But let's move on to the next point."If a sick old man requests euthanasia, do you really think death is ideal to him? Or do you think that given the choice he'd rather be young and healthy again? If a young woman commits suicide, do you think that she'd really, truly reject a clear life of happiness in favor of the cold embrace of death?" Life is dynamic. At one point, a person may decide that it isn't worth living. For any reason, really. And, even if medical technology evolved to a point where we could prolong indefinitely the natural course of decayed health, I imagine people would still opt out of life. After all, there are people who specifically do not desire to live forever, who believe eternal existence is undesirable (see "The Last Answer" by Isaac Asimov for example) "The fact that life is cruel enough to trick people into dying does not mean that life and happiness aren't what people ultimately desire." Contentment is part of what I strive for. Happiness is overrated and only necessary to offset sorrow. As far as life? It will end and that is that. It does not need to trick us, for willingly or not; poor or rich; young and old; we all will dance to the rhythm of the Danse Macabre. Without knowing what my triggers are, it is very hard to upset or offend. I usually just take it as an invitation to be as forward as I wish

Then why suicide? Why have things such as a living will that stipulates the conditions where you will want to be allowed to die? Why this massive movement for "The right to die" that fights for people to seek doctor assisted suicide to go out on their terms?To say no-one actually wants to die is to ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary.

It's good to be soul crushingly pragmatic from time to time... But this isn't one of those times, so you did good! A compromise between the ideal and the pragmatic is what is called for, I believe.

The problem with the Golden Rule is that it does not give consistent results. If I believe I am scum and should be treated as such, the results of following the Golden Rule will be that I treat people like scum. Let's take Szeth as an example: Szeth wants to be killed in mortal combat. Following the Golden Rule, Szeth seeks to kill a bunch of people in mortal combat, since that is how he wants to be treated. Is Szeth doing morally good? The Golden Rule is important, but I do not believe it is anywhere close to being a guide to objective morality, but rather a tool to assure your actions are authentic to yourself.

It certainly wouldn't hurt, ya know?

What? No cyclopean geometries?

All the hateas are gonna hate hate hate...

There's nothing random about Shia Lebouf... And his cannibalism is a serious concern in Iowa right now. Whichever candidate can convince the electorate that they are the hardest on cannibalism will win the nomination.

Coupled with the continued exploitation by the mercantile Spaniards under false pretense of converting the heathens,And I forgot where I was going with this

Reading a book of cat poems by T S Elliot. What more could one want?

Don't feel guilty? I'll have to disagree with you there. We may not have been the perpetrators of these heinous acts, but guilt gives us a conscience, pushes us to change. If more people in our society felt guilt instead of trying to justify, legitimize, or minimize, we would be a lot further along in making sure these poor people weren't paying for the sins of our parents!And that's how this philosophical pessimist tries to make folks feel better

Here's some reading material. Essentially, many tribes have retained hunting and fishing rights on and off reservations. In fact, if I owned property that included traditional tribal hunting grounds, I would have to let the tribe hunt on my property, even if I objected to it.http://law.jrank.org/pages/8750/Native-American-Rights-Hunting-Fishing-Rights.html

The problem is that Tony Based on the side he takes, I am assuming he's learned his lesson and do support Team Tony. At the same time, I don't expect Cap to see it in that way either... In fact, I imagine Cap has quite the ego now that he has recently been justified on a couple of big deals.

Alfredo sauce is best for dipping pizza in. And if you think that leads to massive weight gain, you would be correct

You could even "try" this song! https://youtu.be/7WSqjk427v4

Chickens are fun critters...