Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says

[Martinus]

I wanted to post something similar as Malthus but I thought I'd be more agreeable/less of a dickhead. 

[Malthus]

I wanted to post something similar as Malthus but I thought I'd be more agreeable/less of a dickhead. 

As for me, I'll concede the crown of agreeableness to others, and concentrate on amusing myself ... 

[Ideologue]

Fwiw, society was in no way ready for statism in the 1920s.

[grumbler]

People who make posts like the one you just did, Ide, have always baffled me. What's the motivation?

Just pointing it out in case it escaped him.  Personally, I don't really give a fuck.

I thought your point well-made and quite clear.  I guess mileage may vary.

[crazy canuck]

People who make posts like the one you just did, Ide, have always baffled me. What's the motivation?

I assumed his motivation was to give some helpful advice.

[Jacob]

I thought your point well-made and quite clear.  I guess mileage may vary.

I assumed his motivation was to give some helpful advice.

I think you may have found why it was so baffling to Marty

[grumbler]

I wanted to post something similar as Malthus but I thought I'd be more agreeable/less of a dickhead. 

As for me, I'll concede the crown of agreeableness to others, and concentrate on amusing myself ... 

That's pretty much my stance as well.  People say stupid things, and it amuses me to point out how stupid their statements are.  If people don't like it, I can live with that.  This is the place for being like that.  I can't mock my students like I can mock the adults who post here.

Ironically, I really don't post much at all on my other favorite site, Warships1.  You think people here are nasty and petty?  Those guys have an absolutely enormous amount of collective factual knowledge abut everything to do with warships (guns, armor, propulsion, design trade offs, tactic, strategy, and all from primary sources) and have been a community longer than Languish has, and yet the noise-to-signal ratio is 10:1 at least, because they bicker like old married couples.  I learn a lot just reading, but I don't dare enter the fray, because the fray is almost never about facts.  There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

[Jacob]

There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

Are there idiots here?

[Berkut]

There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

Are there idiots here?

I don't think there are - they wouldn't last long.

There are people who do not use their brain very often though, and there are plenty who only use it to effectively argue their position without ever engaging it to consider whether their position is actually warranted however. But you can be extremely intelligent and do that...

[derspiess]

There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

Are there idiots here?

DG tells me I am and it hurts mah feelers

[Eddie Teach]

There are people who do not use their brain very often though,

That's cause I wore it out when I was young.

[DGuller]

There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

Are there idiots here?

DG tells me I am and it hurts mah feelers

Agreed.

[grumbler]

Are there idiots here?

I don't think there are - they wouldn't last long.

There are people who do not use their brain very often though, and there are plenty who only use it to effectively argue their position without ever engaging it to consider whether their position is actually warranted however. But you can be extremely intelligent and do that...

That's the point.  The guys on warship1 are really smart - they can argue details about armor and shells and how many hits the USS Massachusetts scored in the Battle of Casablanca citing the ship's deck logs and still end up with the last three pages of any thread just being messages calling each other idiots.  It really makes me appreciate this forum more.  We may have our idiots but they are our idiots.  I even may be one of them.  But the idiot-bashing here isn't anywhere near the norm it is elsewhere on this internet-thingy.

[mongers]

That's the point.  The guys on warship1 are really smart - they can argue details about armor and shells and how many hits the USS Massachusetts scored in the Battle of Casablanca citing the ship's deck logs and still end up with the last three pages of any thread just being messages calling each other idiots.  It really makes me appreciate this forum more.  We may have our idiots but they are our idiots.  I even may be one of them.  But the idiot-bashing here isn't anywhere near the norm it is elsewhere on this internet-thingy.

You say you appreciate this forum for it's well below average idiot bashing, yet say this:

That's pretty much my stance as well.  People say stupid things, and it amuses me to point out how stupid their statements are.  If people don't like it, I can live with that.  This is the place for being like that.  I can't mock my students like I can mock the adults who post here.

Ironically, I really don't post much at all on my other favorite site, Warships1.  You think people here are nasty and petty?  Those guys have an absolutely enormous amount of collective factual knowledge abut everything to do with warships (guns, armor, propulsion, design trade offs, tactic, strategy, and all from primary sources) and have been a community longer than Languish has, and yet the noise-to-signal ratio is 10:1 at least, because they bicker like old married couples.  I learn a lot just reading, but I don't dare enter the fray, because the fray is almost never about facts.  There are no idiots there, but that doesn't stop them from being The Internet Personified.

So you're actively trying to bring it up towards the norm by some of your posting behaviour here. 

Sounds like you're trying to have your cake and eat it too.

[Jacob]

Our idiots indeed.