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Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

Harbal wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote: This is always your problem.
Why not just fuck off no one is making you read this stuff. Sometimes I wonder why you post on PN. You are just one of the rabble

One thing I've noticed about you, Hobbes, you often express compassion for mankind but, on a personal level, you seem to hate almost everyone.

I find some individuals disappointing. That does not stop me being generally compassionate.
Dalek Prime, by his own admission would rather not have been born. His preference for being led by the establishment rather than letting humanity have their say, speaks volumes about his nihilism.

henry quirk wrote:Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

Yes. Positive utilitarianism at its finest; 'sacrifice the individual for the betterment of humanity'. Not my cuppa.

Dalek Prime wrote:

henry quirk wrote:Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

Yes. Positive utilitarianism at its finest; 'sacrifice the individual for the betterment of humanity'. Not my cuppa.

Nothing is your cuppa. Each day you live a lie; your life!

henry quirk wrote:Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

So says our friendly resident warmonger.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Dalek Prime wrote:

henry quirk wrote:Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

Yes. Positive utilitarianism at its finest; 'sacrifice the individual for the betterment of humanity'. Not my cuppa.

Nothing is your cuppa. Each day you live a lie; your life!

Blah blah blah, ya cranky shit.

"So says our friendly resident warmonger"

Damned straight. I don't pretend to 'love humanity'. There's a handful of folks I care about...the rest: pffftt!

I ain't nice (no big thing cuz neither are you), but I'm honest (and consistent).

I feel awful now, my comment seems to have raised the general level of abuse.

Restored it to normal levels, is all.

henry quirk wrote:"So says our friendly resident warmonger"

Damned straight. I don't pretend to 'love humanity'. There's a handful of folks I care about...the rest: pffftt!

I ain't nice (no big thing cuz neither are you), but I'm honest (and consistent).

You are an apathetic, self-centred piece of shit, and I'm honest too. Those 'handful of folks' you care about. I wondering if you would pffffttt! if it were them being raped and murdered in front of you. The tide will turn, and the rest of the world will go 'pfffttt!'

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Harbal wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote: This is always your problem.
Why not just fuck off no one is making you read this stuff. Sometimes I wonder why you post on PN. You are just one of the rabble

One thing I've noticed about you, Hobbes, you often express compassion for mankind but, on a personal level, you seem to hate almost everyone.

I find some individuals disappointing. That does not stop me being generally compassionate.
Dalek Prime, by his own admission would rather not have been born. His preference for being led by the establishment rather than letting humanity have their say, speaks volumes about his nihilism.

See, you don't even know the difference between a nihilist and an antinatalist. And your assumption I prefer one form of media over the other is a fabrication, as I said clearly I don't like either, so you're not only cranky because of your physical frailties, but also a lying piece of shit.

Just saying.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

henry quirk wrote:Some folks love the idea of humanity (a fiction) and have no use for the organic reality of human individuals.

It's a neat trick: love everyone, hate each one.

Best of both worlds: 'I love you all, but I won't do diddly squat for any of you'.

So says our friendly resident warmonger.

Indeed. One expects such a person to deny the humanity of others in order that he can easily send in the tanks to crush their bodies without regret.

Dalek Prime wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Harbal wrote: One thing I've noticed about you, Hobbes, you often express compassion for mankind but, on a personal level, you seem to hate almost everyone.

I find some individuals disappointing. That does not stop me being generally compassionate.
Dalek Prime, by his own admission would rather not have been born. His preference for being led by the establishment rather than letting humanity have their say, speaks volumes about his nihilism.

See, you don't even know the difference between a nihilist and an antinatalist. .

I know the difference. An antinatalist is a type of nihilist, definitively.
The only difference that matters here is that most nihilists are not complete hypocrites for being alive.

Harbal wrote:I feel awful now, my comment seems to have raised the general level of abuse.

Ah the unintended consequences of levity!!

Now we see Quirk and Dalek as bed-fellows. What a tangled web we weave.

Harbal wrote:I feel awful now, my comment seems to have raised the general level of abuse.

Got to watch out for the quiet ones - rabble-rousers and kingmakers working quietly behind the scenes :)