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Best Hair Color?

Smiral said
minenow imagine me whipping you in the face with my hair and walking away like a badass

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Darkel said
You just ruined Mexicans for me.

You just ruined PMS pills for me.

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Kaga said
I'm amazed no one has asked "why" yet.

Pfft. That would be reasonable and logical and all that other fancy-pants mumbo-jumbo.

A topic about topics: Argument concerning arguments

Dervish said
Pretty much, it's an ego thing. People get a "rush" about proving somebody wrong and "winning" a fight. It's usually less about learning about something or trying to determine what's right and more about trying to prove somebody wrong so you can look smart. There's a reason I don't really feel like jumping into massive, multi-quoted passive aggressive to slanderous debates/arguments/e-peen stroking fests for the most part. Whereas I mainly like to talk about things, get educated about something I want to know more about, or put in my two bits about something that I am certain is factually correct when I see something that's wrong (like, actual facts, not something subjective like say if God exists, the ethics of suicide or anything like that). Of course, I like anyone get sucked into things from time to time, but I don't exactly go seeking it out or deriving some kind of pleasure with arguing over something that's almost certain to not reach a mutually respective conclusion where both parties feel satisfied with the discourse. Most of the threads you see in Off-Topic that are pages upon pages and hundreds of posts usually go completely off the original topic as somebody's trying to illustrate an idea to prove their own position, and then it escalates when somebody else counters the tangent with something else and blah blah blah. In short, it's less about learning and more about "winning".If you can ever call being a part of an internet slap fight that.

This. For me, there's a difference between arguing and debating/discussing. Arguing is about proving your point, about winning. Debate and discussion is about presenting your view in contrast to someone else's, and seeking to understand their view, possibly allowing it to change your own. It's about seeking a common truth and mutual understanding - yes, you're trying to progeny your point, but for the sake of their understanding and yours, not just "to win". I feel like the conversations I had with you the other day are a good example, mdk - we realised we disagreed, or were misinterpreting one another, and called it quits, having found the others' perspective interesting, if not the same as our own. I'd never quite thought about the cultural unity of the US that way until you mentioned it - I'd always thought of it as very decentralised and as varying from state to state.

Best Hair Color?

It really depends on the person, for me. Some people suit unnatural colours, some don't. The only hair colour I'm potentially less attracted to most of the time is blonde, but again, I know plenty of people who just really suit blonde hair and I prefer them with blonde hair more than anything else.

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Pointless Thread The reboot 2.0

genghismike said
Fuck it, since Halo posted.

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I Dunno

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Pointless Thread The reboot 2.0

Pls no. Not again.

Your Political Ideology

The Nexerus said
I'm not sure that most people with that viewpoint fully understand its implications. There are numerous things which society deems unacceptable and that are thus legislated, but do not directly harm others. Should all of those things be made legal?

My use of "harm" is fairly broad - I mainly mean infringing on the rights of others in some way. Whether it's direct or indirect in its effect is irrelevant. Of course, the practical implementation of the belief is therefore limited, as very few things can be said to in no way adversely affect others, and thus we end up in debate of how much one is reasonably allowed to affect others. The principle isn't necessarily useful once you try to apply it practically, but I still support the theory behind it.
Can I ask for some examples of what you were referring to, just to get a clearer picture of what you're getting at? I'm not sure if you're including things like the seat-belt argument from earlier in the thread, which only really affects the driver directly but certainly affects others indirectly, or...?