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All forum members gathered to meet in one place. Who would be the first to die?

Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Don't give up so easily, Leo. If it's any consolation, I like you well enough.

Dalek Prime wrote:

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Don't give up so easily, Leo. If it's any consolation, I like you well enough.

Coming from a bloke who reckons the world would be a better place if I'd never been born I'm sure you'll understand that your gracious words are but a small consolation, mate. Nevertheless I thank you for them anyway.

Obvious Leo wrote:

Dalek Prime wrote:

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Don't give up so easily, Leo. If it's any consolation, I like you well enough.

Coming from a bloke who reckons the world would be a better place if I'd never been born I'm sure you'll understand that your gracious words are but a small consolation, mate. Nevertheless I thank you for them anyway.

I don't think that way of extants, Leo. Just people who don't exist yet, and don't need to.

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Your best chance is to stand next to me, I think I would tend to divert some of the fire.

Harbal wrote:

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Your best chance is to stand next to me, I think I would tend to divert some of the fire.

This is quite a congenial mental image, mate. You and I could stand to one side quaffing lager and offering sarcastic commentary until such time as we both get chucked into the lake. Now that I come to think of it this has largely been the story of my life.

Dalek Prime wrote:I don't think that way of extants, Leo. Just people who don't exist yet, and don't need to.

I prefer to think of myself as a person rather than an extant but your clarification is appreciated. How you can hold such a pejorative opinion about somebody who doesn't exist is an existential question way beyond my comprehension, as I've confessed to you before.

Obvious Leo wrote:
This is quite a congenial mental image, mate. You and I could stand to one side quaffing lager and offering sarcastic commentary until such time as we both get chucked into the lake. Now that I come to think of it this has largely been the story of my life.

I think we'd be OK, Leo. You, me and one or two of the others who never seem to get many votes for most popular philosopher of the year would be more than a match for the rest.

Indeed I'm rather grateful for the fact that burning heretics at the stake is no longer a fashionable way to deal with unpopular philosophers, Harbal, although many physicists still seem to be pining for the good old days in the vicious way they respond to my perfectly orthodox interpretation of pre-Socratic philosophy. If I'd been born a few centuries earlier I'm quite certain that they would have roasted me alive as I muttered in vain: Eppur si muove.

Obvious Leo wrote:

Harbal wrote:

Obvious Leo wrote:Me. Everybody hates a smartarse and there seems to be a lot of folk here who reckon you should just shoot people that piss you off.

Your best chance is to stand next to me, I think I would tend to divert some of the fire.

This is quite a congenial mental image, mate. You and I could stand to one side quaffing lager and offering sarcastic commentary until such time as we both get chucked into the lake. Now that I come to think of it this has largely been the story of my life.

Dalek Prime wrote:I don't think that way of extants, Leo. Just people who don't exist yet, and don't need to.

I prefer to think of myself as a person rather than an extant but your clarification is appreciated. How you can hold such a pejorative opinion about somebody who doesn't exist is an existential question way beyond my comprehension, as I've confessed to you before.

Pejorative opinion? I don't want them to exist because I care, not because I harbour a dislike. You really don't understand me or antinatalism, do you? It's not incomprehensible, you do realise?

Dalek Prime wrote: You really don't understand me or antinatalism, do you?

I understand what it is, and I can follow the logical grounding of it, but I don't understand how anybody could be attracted to it as a philosophy. My provisional diagnosis is that you were probably weaned too early. A bit longer on the tit and it might never have happened.

Dalek Prime wrote:You really don't understand me or antinatalism, do you?

I seem to remember my wife going to antinatalism classes some years ago. If it was about the destruction of mankind she never said anything to me. she told me it was about having a safe pregnancy. It's funny how you can live with someone for years and they can still surprise you.

Harbal wrote:

Dalek Prime wrote:You really don't understand me or antinatalism, do you?

I seem to remember my wife going to antinatalism classes some years ago. If it was about the destruction of mankind she never said anything to me. she told me it was about having a safe pregnancy. It's funny how you can live with someone for years and they can still surprise you.

She went to prenatal classes, fuckwad.

Obvious Leo wrote:

Dalek Prime wrote: You really don't understand me or antinatalism, do you?

I understand what it is, and I can follow the logical grounding of it, but I don't understand how anybody could be attracted to it as a philosophy. My provisional diagnosis is that you were probably weaned too early. A bit longer on the tit and it might never have happened.

And you where dropped on your head. I don't rub that in, do I?

I'm attracted to.it because I understand the ethical implications of birth and creation, and how it's no different than signing someone up for Russian roulette.

Dalek Prime wrote: She went to prenatal classes, fuckwad.

So she didn't lie to me then?