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Is there ever a reason to not prove something if it can be proven?

scribz said Right, but a person who does go about proving everything the world, will either have an "incredible track record" or would have to admit being wrong and would be better off for it.

Have you... like.... talked to people before? Those are two outlandishly rare outcomes. The only person besides me with such an incredible track record is Rush Limbaugh, and goddamn *nobody* admits they're wrong and comes away better for it. Your point makes perfect sense in magic-happy-land. Here, all evidence says that's not the way it goes.

But that's beside the point, because what you're actually talking about is communication. Communication is great. Communication which only happens on the premise that one person must prove themselves right and prove the other person wrong is typically asinine and fruitless (case and point: every off-topic ever) -- but let's not let that distract us from the benefits of a constructive dialogue.

....then after that I can't follow what you're getting at.

Is there ever a reason to not prove something if it can be proven?

Another way to think of it is, 'What's the value of hammering in your rail-road stakes all the way?' Well, that's important, right, you don't want the track to warp and buckle and make trains crash, right? So railroad stakes should be hammered in fully, every time. 'Well then why aren't we hammering in rail-road stakes everywhere, if they're so good?' I don't have **ANY** in my house! Oh, shit! Is my house going to crash?!?

In most conversations (meaning the stunning majority of them), 'proof' is as useless as a railroad tie in your living room. Useless things are often detrimental. In the case of 'proof,' that comes from the fact that a person who tries to prove every damn thing in the world *must* believe he knows every damn thing in the world. Such a person is probably even more insufferable than I am.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

Aeonumbra said
I was using a simile, not a literal definite comparison of the terms in which we used,

You literally used the word literally, so I'm literally calling bullshit. You're out. Let's all take a few steps back and chill out, and we can have some other different conversation. One not based on such a ludicrous comparison.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

We are governed with consent by elected officials. That's a pretty far cry from slavery. There is no similarity whatsoever between stripping an expansive federal legislature of its excess powers and the systematic physical, psychological, and sexual abuse of a minority group. None. The very suggestion is absurd. We are not subjugated, we are not repressed, we are not tyrannized -- we are simply stupid enough to keep voting for these morons. The solution is simple. Stop. Just stop. That's it.

Police kill an unarmed cow

I don't know a nice way to kill a cow. But I do know several nice ways to cook them.

Foreign music

I'm not sure what part of Arabic this hails from exactly, but here's what I think is Qatari gangster rap

Foreign music

You never have to look far, if you know where to look.

Police kill an unarmed cow

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Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

edit: know what, that's not helping anything, is it. Nevermind.

Ferguson, MO protests and police brutality.

You guys are awfully eager to find the writing on the wall. All this 'second revolution' nonsense and fire and brimstone..... just stop giving them power. The federal government is uselessly stupid and it doesn't have to mean anything. They're only a problem when you rely on them to solve problems.