blackbrook
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- Comment on Check mate, creationists 3 weeks ago:
One of the lost books of the bible featured Satan picking some especially sinful dude and telling him to build an ark too.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 4 weeks ago:
comradesharkfucker very almost doesn’t like jokes.
- Comment on Please no 2 months ago:
Maybe he was.
- Comment on How Long It Takes the Largest Companies in America to Make One Employee's Average Annual Salary 6 months ago:
Profits aren’t spent on salaries. Salaries one of the things deducted from revenue to determine profits.
- Comment on The harvest is ready! 6 months ago:
That’s what the shrink-ray is for.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 7 months ago:
Well “it’s human nature” can indeed be a cop out. It shouldn’t be a discussion ender. And it shouldn’t be a justification. Murder is a part of human nature too. However it is a reality to be worked with. And one can ask, in what conditions is this behavior brought out, and in what conditions discouraged?
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 7 months ago:
Oh I agree with you. I didn’t mean asking why was flawed, but specifically asking why with the implicit assumptions we tend to carry about human actions being rational and conscious. I agree that asking “why is this a part of human nature?” is a good question.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 7 months ago:
Asking why like this has the implicit flawed premise that human behaviors like this are products of conscious thought. They are not. (I don’t mean this as a criticism of you particularly, it is inherent in our culture to look at everything humans do as if it were rational and conscious, despite the reality that so much is it is not.)
I’d answer this by saying it is human nature. Most people don’t think about it and are not aware they are doing it. Many might even deny it. This is not to say individuals can’t stop and reflect and be conscious and rational about. Some do but most don’t.
- Comment on looking forward to the comments 10 months ago:
If he didn’t want people to pronounce it two different ways he should have spelled it differently.