In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization. Although I strongly disagree with him on the point at issue here, I have nothing against him personally. ![]() Netflix have released the first teaser trailer for their live action Death Note movie. The much-anticipated horror film is directed by Adam Wingard (The Gu. In the world today, an estimated 2 million underage. Owner to a beautiful Slutty Kitten. I don't normally respond to messages that are too crazy, but try me and we'll see. 18+ only I do not own. Horror Writer, Lake Lopez. A new short story is now live. Since some people have (ironically) been using this post to attack him every time he says anything at all, I have decided to obfuscate his identity under the pseudonym “Andrew Cord” in order to make this a little harder. And then complain about losing rather than changing their tactics to match those of people who are winning. Which is probably because if you *really* want to be the kind of person who wins you have to actually care about winning something, which means you have to have politics, which means you have to embrace “politics the mindkiller” and “politics is war and arguments are soldiers”, and Scott would clearly rather spend the rest of his life losing than do this. That post . He seems to honestly think that it’s a worthwhile use of his time, energy and mental effort to download evil people’s evil worldviews into his mind and try to analytically debate them with statistics and cost- benefit analyses. He gets *mad* at people whom he detachedly intellectually agrees with but who are willing to back up their beliefs with war and fire rather than pussyfooting around with debate- team nonsense. ![]() Hamilton is the central character and female lead of the MTV series Awkward. She is a 18 year graduate of Palos Hills High School and a blogger who lives in. It honestly makes me kind of sick. It is exactly the kind of thing that “social justice” activists like me *intend* to attack and “trigger” when we use “triggery” catchphrases about the mewling pusillanimity of privileged white allies. In other words, if a fight is important to you, fight nasty. If that means lying, lie. If that means insults, insult. If that means silencing people, silence. It always makes me happy when my ideological opponents come out and say eloquently and openly what I’ve always secretly suspected them of believing. It’s even better when the person involved is a celebrity, and I can tell people “Hey! I argued with a celebrity!”My natural instinct is to give some of the reasons why I think Andrew is wrong, starting with the history of the “noble lie” concept and moving on to some examples of why it didn’t work very well, and why it might not be expected not to work so well in the future. But in a way, that would be assuming the conclusion. I wouldn’t be showing respect for Andrew’s arguments. I wouldn’t be going halfway to meet them on their own terms. The respectful way to rebut Andrew’s argument would be to spread malicious lies about Andrew to a couple of media outlets, fan the flames, and wait for them to destroy his reputation. Then if the stress ends up bursting an aneurysm in his brain, I can dance on his grave, singing: . Now you can’t argue in favor of nasty debate tactics any more . I mean, he thinks that sexism is detrimental to society, so spreading lies and destroying people is justified in order to stop it. I think that discourse based on mud- slinging and falsehoods is detrimental to society. You know who got things done? They didn’t agree with the British occupation of Northern Ireland and they weren’t afraid to let people know in that very special way only a nail- bomb shoved through your window at night can. Why not assassinate prominent racist and sexist politicians and intellectuals? I won’t name names since that would be crossing a line, but I’m sure you can generate several of them who are sufficiently successful and charismatic that, if knocked off, there would not be an equally competent racist or sexist immediately available to replace them, and it would thus be a serious setback for the racism/sexism movement. Other people can appeal to “the social contract” or “the general civilizational rule not to use violence”, but not Andrew: I think that whether or not I use certain weapons has zero impact on whether or not those weapons are used against me, and people who think they do are either appealing to a kind of vague Kantian morality that I think is invalid or a specific kind of “honor among foes” that I think does not exist. And don’t give me that nonsense about the police. I’m sure a smart person like you can think of clever exciting new ways to commit the perfect murder. Unless you do not believe there will ever be an opportunity to defect unpunished, you need this sort of social contract to take you at least some of the way. He continues: When Scott calls rhetorical tactics he dislikes “bullets” and denigrates them it actually hilariously plays right into this point. Bullets, as you say, are neutral. I am in favor of my side using bullets as best they can to destroy the enemy’s ability to use bullets. In a war, a real war, a war for survival, you use all the weapons in your arsenal because you assume the enemy will use all the weapons in theirs. Because you understand that it IS a war. There are a lot of things I am tempted to say to this. Like “And that is why the United States immediately nukes every country it goes to war with.”Or “And that is why the Geneva Convention was so obviously impossible that no one even bothered to attend the conference”. Or “And that is why, to this very day, we solve every international disagreement through total war.”Or “And that is why Martin Luther King was immediately reduced to a nonentity, and we remember the Weathermen as the sole people responsible for the success of the civil rights movement”But I think what I am actually going to say is that, for the love of God, if you like bullets so much, stop using them as a metaphor for . If I get shot in the next while, someone point the police here.)III. So let’s derive why violence is not in fact The One True Best Way To Solve All Our Problems. You can get most of this from Hobbes, but this blog post will be shorter. Suppose I am a radical Catholic who believes all Protestants deserve to die, and therefore go around killing Protestants. So far, so good. Unfortunately, there might be some radical Protestants around who believe all Catholics deserve to die. If there weren’t before, there probably are now. So they go around killing Catholics, we’re both unhappy and/or dead, our economy tanks, hundreds of innocent people end up as collateral damage, and our country goes down the toilet. So we make an agreement: I won’t kill any more Catholics, you don’t kill any more Protestants. The specific Irish example was called the Good Friday Agreement and the general case is called “civilization”. So then I try to destroy the hated Protestants using the government. I go around trying to pass laws banning Protestant worship and preventing people from condemning Catholicism. Unfortunately, maybe the next government in power is a Protestant government, and they pass laws banning Catholic worship and preventing people from condemning Protestantism. No one can securely practice their own religion, no one can learn about other religions, people are constantly plotting civil war, academic freedom is severely curtailed, and once again the country goes down the toilet. So again we make an agreement. I won’t use the apparatus of government against Protestantism, you don’t use the apparatus of government against Catholicism. The specific American example is the First Amendment and the general case is called “liberalism”, or to be dramatic about it, “civilization 2. Every case in which both sides agree to lay down their weapons and be nice to each other has corresponded to spectacular gains by both sides and a new era of human flourishing.“Wait a second, no!” someone yells. You’re going to say that agreeing not to spread malicious lies about each other would also be a civilized and beneficial system. Like maybe the Protestants could stop saying that the Catholics worshipped the Devil, and the Catholics could stop saying the Protestants hate the Virgin Mary, and they could both relax the whole thing about the Jews baking the blood of Christian children into their matzah.“But your two examples were about contracts written on paper and enforced by the government. The Jews will no doubt spread lies against us, so if we stop spreading lies about them, all we’re doing is abandoning an effective weapon against a religion I personally know to be heathenish! Rationalists should win, so put the blood libel on the front page of every newspaper!”Or, as Andrew puts it: Whether or not I use certain weapons has zero impact on whether or not those weapons are used against me, and people who think they do are either appealing to a kind of vague Kantian morality that I think is invalid or a specific kind of “honor among foes” that I think does not exist. So let’s talk about how beneficial game- theoretic equilibria can come to exist even in the absence of centralized enforcers. I know of two main ways: reciprocal communitarianism, and divine grace. Reciprocal communitarianism is probably how altruism evolved. Some mammal started running TIT- FOR- TAT, the program where you cooperate with anyone whom you expect to cooperate with you. Gradually you form a successful community of cooperators. The defectors either join your community and agree to play by your rules or get outcompeted. Divine grace is more complicated. I was tempted to call it “spontaneous order” until I remembered the rationalist proverb that if you don’t understand something, you need to call it by a term that reminds you that don’t understand it or else you’ll think you’ve explained it when you’ve just named it. But consider the following: I am a pro- choice atheist. When I lived in Ireland, one of my friends was a pro- life Christian. I thought she was responsible for the unnecessary suffering of millions of women. She thought I was responsible for killing millions of babies. And yet she invited me over to her house for dinner without poisoning the food. And I ate it, and thanked her, and sent her a nice card, without smashing all her china. Please try not to be insufficiently surprised by this. Every time a Republican and a Democrat break bread together with good will, it is a miracle. Darkchylde - Wikipedia. Darkchylde is an American comic bookcharacter created in 1. Randy Queen. It was originally published by Maximum Press, and later by Image Comics, through Homage Comics, a publishing imprint of Wildstorm. Subsequent projects would by published by Darkchylde Entertainment, through Wowio. The book shot to the #1 hottest comics spot in Wizard, where it stayed for nine months collectively in both Wizard and Combo magazines. The success of the books spawned a line of best- selling trading cards, action figures, skateboards, lunch- boxes, lithos, apparel, and mini- bust statues. It was the best- selling independent title offered that month in Previews. This comic book would be a one- shot crossover titled The Darkness/ Darkchylde: Kingdom Pain. In addition to containing a new story feature Darkchylde, this one- shot also contained preview art for Randy Queen's next comic book title . Jones)Witchblade/Darkchylde. The Darkness/Darkchylde: Kingdom of Pain. Darkchylde Swimsuit Illustrated. Darkchylde Summer Swimsuit Spectacular. Darkchylde Sketchbook. Manga Darkchylde #0, 1–2. Collected editions. Darkchylde would be turned into a Young Adult Novel by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Are you able to comment on Darkchylde’s potential future on in television and film? Any actresses you’d love to play Ariel? I know that’s a frustrating answer for fans, but it’s a frustrating process. It’s probably best for me not to comment on actresses, so we’ll just all have to wait and see. Queen felt his work was being used in an abusive and misleading manner, and exercised due process with Tumblr in having his copyrighted images removed from the blog. Tumblr erroneously removed the entire post, which included commentary. Retrieved October 3.
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