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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]

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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]

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[The Amazing World of Gumball]

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[Agents of Shield]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Galavant]

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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]

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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]

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(Neil Gaiman)

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I guess I'm coming at this from a really different background. To me, ritual human sacrifice is the most evil thing any human being can do, and I see this as a form of ritual sacrifice--you randomly nab a few people who seem vaguely suspicious, and their removal from the public population magically wards off evil.

But I'm not for completely removing people who make threats from the population. I'm for investigating threats that seem credible, and I think this one is. Safeguards that protect the innocent are important and necessary, but I don't think ignoring threats because they might just be jokes is the best way to do that.

DA

Welcome to the SJWs' idea of utopia. :P

With all due respect, because you seem like an intelligent and reasonable person from previous conversations, what the hell does that have to do with the preceding argument? That seems, at least on the face of it, to be a kind of bizarre model for understanding the thing we're talking about, and I'm hard pressed to see any evidence that this is where the motivation for this kind of thing comes from.

(Also, and this is both totally tangential and a wild shot in the dark: are you at all connected to rationalist communities and that whole side of the thing?)

I hate rationalists. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them. That's a totally different topic, though.

As for explaining myself . . . Bah, this is the kind of thing where I write a story to explain it, because I just don't have the words to put it in an argument. But to make an attempt, I feel like there are a lot of cases where an individual of a group is treated as a voodoo doll for the group. The obvious example is when a Muslim does something horrible, and a whole lot of Muslims get arrested who had nothing to do with it. They're not being arrested to reduce crime in any concrete way--people are just scared of Muslims, so they arrest Muslims, and since Muslims are an indistinguishable mass to them anyways, they feel like they've solved the problem.

I felt like that was the real reason that teenager got arrested. It could have been any teen, and it could only have been a teen, because grownups were terrified of teens at that time, and he accidentally tapped into their fears.

Does that make any sense at all?

It makes sense but I'm not sure that I agree that it's the motivation. It seems like it was a reaction to what the kid did - an absurd, irrational, and insanely harsh reaction, but a reaction.

Also, I'd be really curious about your beef with the rationalists.

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