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Author Topic: RPG.net user points out irony of mods "not wanting to ban people", gets banned  (Read 19162 times)

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I think we've kind of fallen far afield of the original topic. Can we get back to pointing and laughing at TBP? :)

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How many ways can we say "They suck" until the next gossip happens?
What kind of a gamer would ask this question? Hello? Dice? Charts? Stats? We can quantify how much they suck!

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The tail at 48.36% the length of the whole animal appears to be wagging the dog.
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How many ways can we say "They suck" until the next gossip happens?
What kind of a gamer would ask this question? Hello? Dice? Charts? Stats? We can quantify how much they suck!

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The tail at 48.36% the length of the whole animal appears to be wagging the dog.
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Anyone know that happened to Ol' Jim on that site?

2 trouble tickets on 10/21
6 trouble tickets on 10/23 leading to a Permanent Ban

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Anyone know that happened to Ol' Jim on that site?

2 trouble tickets on 10/21
6 trouble tickets on 10/23 leading to a Permanent Ban
I think he's a test target for when they modify/refine their disciplinary system.

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Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.
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Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.

Heh. How ageist of them.
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Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.
I was wondering why they retired poor John Sumbitch. Big if true! :D
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Regarding abortion -

The thing is that as far as I know, no mainstream Christian organization has historically treated life as starting at conception. The traditional norm has been that life starts at birth. If a woman miscarries (as has happened throughout history), the remains were traditionally *not* given last rites and a burial on consecrated ground.

It's only in very recent times that there has been a movement to have funerals for a fertilized egg or embryo. And as far as I read, it's still not the standard.


To me, what makes someone a living human soul is not their DNA, but their existence as a thinking, conscious human being. For example, if a person is fully brain-dead, then I do not consider it murder to terminate them. I can respect those who feel otherwise, but I don't think that should be a legal mandate. That is, if someone terminates a proven brain-dead loved one, I don't think they should go to jail for premeditated murder.

Let us assume that an unborn individual does not count as a member of its species.

If that's the case, then there can be no objection to destorying bald eagle eggs. They aren't bald eagles.
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Let us assume that an unborn individual does not count as a member of its species.

If that's the case, then there can be no objection to destorying bald eagle eggs. They aren't bald eagles.

Except that a potential member of an endangered species is still valuable if you're trying to conserve that species. The argument is not that a fertilized egg never will become something else, but when that happens.

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So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?
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So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?

No, that's not my argument, but for the purposes of trying to conserve the bald eagle population, yes, it's true. A potential human will never become a bald eagle. A potential bald eagle might.


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Interesting, and basically that is your argument restated. And a potential human might become another Einstein, and a bald eagle never will. So the idea of evaluating the value of a person before they ever get to be born is ghoulish in the extreme.
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So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?

No, that's not my argument, but for the purposes of trying to conserve the bald eagle population, yes, it's true. A potential human will never become a bald eagle. A potential bald eagle might.

Ah. So by that logic, a bald eagle is more valuable than a human, and the killing of a bald eagle should carry a harsher sentence than should the killing of a human.
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Ah. So by that logic, a bald eagle is more valuable than a human, and the killing of a bald eagle should carry a harsher sentence than should the killing of a human.

 ::)

Come on. I used to have a lot of respect for you back on TBP. You're just inventing things you want me to have said to argue with now.