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Nope

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@JoyceCarolOates Can't have a meaningful conversation about Columbo without referencing @columbophile

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@1KimberlyBrooks All those stories... End anyway. I have no trinkets from my grandparents and I sincerely doubt it ever crossed any of their minds that they should expect me to want their stuff. I don't know what my great-grandparents' names were. The idea of "legacy" is Downton-Abbey-esque cope.

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@boreddeleuzian @Dana_TFSJ @jk_rowling Hahaha what a cool and clever clap-back! I'm totally satisfied with the clever BBT-style snark and haven't even noticed that the question went unanswered 😊😕😊

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@sapientiaetamor @TheCountessIE Not sure what's got you mad here? "initiate" is the appropriate term here and the stricter rule - even if contact doesn't take place, as in this case, it's still inappropriate to seek / encourage / discuss the possibility of intimate contact.

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@chuzbucket @jk_rowling @Ashworth101 @Keri_J_Russell "Genuine" priests tend not to be pedophiles, but rather men of faith and integrity.

That probably doesn't change your mind about them belonging in boys' changing rooms, does it?

Because there's no test for "genuineness", is there?

Now apply that same logic to TW.

Jesus wept.

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@The80HDkid @CannaCosmonaut @SturnioloSimone @BozoProzo @CannaCosmonaut

OP: not having kids is immoral because *analogy*
Simone: that makes no sense, look, the analogy is falling apart
Canna: lol lol if we pretend the analogy was different it works, snark, please tell me I'm clever
Canna: IT'S A HEURISTIC R****D *massive strop*

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@CannaCosmonaut @The80HDkid @SturnioloSimone @BozoProzo ... but it's not going to apply here no matter how much you dress poor arguments up in the kind of snarky language people have come to assume correlates with intelligence.

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@CannaCosmonaut @The80HDkid @SturnioloSimone @BozoProzo ... communities would do? Can we infer from the chaos and inevitable lack of resources and opportunities for the next generation that choosing to have a big family is also immoral?

Your precious "heuristic" is useful when explaining why littering "just a little" is still wrong,

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@CannaCosmonaut @The80HDkid @SturnioloSimone @BozoProzo She didn't "miss" anything, she saw and demonstrated the flaw. Your reply isn't "tongue in cheek", which implies wry humour, it's literally just "but doctors are good tho" while completely dodging the point: a functioning society actually requires some diversity in roles.

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@CannaCosmonaut @The80HDkid @SturnioloSimone @BozoProzo The person he's replying to demonstrated why this way of determining if an action is moral or immoral doesn't work. He's not "changing the topic", he's using an analogy. YOU'RE changing the premise by swapping a specific action (have kids / become doctor) to a generic "aim high".

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@justcallmemaccy @StAustellAdam @jk_rowling @Cuddly_D @Redrorie @lumos You haven't apologised though?

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@zaelefty It's exactly the same logic religious fundamentalists use to reject evolution ("Are you saying I'm nothing but a monkey?!"), which is amusing because there's a massive overlap between TRAs and the reddit atheists who just live to mock "anti-science" thinking.

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@doctorcaz @jk_rowling @nyaraVT When I order a water, I don't stop to check if we're both definitely referring to the H2O molecule, but you can bet I'd start if there was a rabid social movement trying to collapse the difference between that and HCl

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@orangeflute @shawzsav @FrostflyPrime Yeah sure, that's clearly what's stopping you

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@orangeflute @shawzsav @FrostflyPrime Insightful 😂

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@orangeflute @shawzsav @FrostflyPrime ... two objectively different activities are the same to avoid triggering that hyper-sensitivity.

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@orangeflute @shawzsav @FrostflyPrime No, it really doesn't. The people who've got worked up have some sort of complex where they ASSUME that's what everyone's thinking, and I'm sure there is snobbery in some quarters, but the original post is just frustration that we have to pretend...

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@shawzsav @FrostflyPrime Everyone in the comments who saw "listening is not the same as reading" and started frothing at the mouth because they've somehow understood "listening is not as good as reading" is never beating the "can't read" allegations