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    Posts made by cteavin

    • RE: Something Trump is wrong about..

      @Frederick:

      This is an example of why I post here…  to learn from other perspectives.  I asked the question with a bad premise.  Let me put it a different way. 
      This short documentary narrated by the highly esteemed legendary Orson Welles is quite an eye-opener about this topic. 
      Youtube Video – [00:30..]

      You still didn't answer the question: Are you, in effect saying, that 99 guilty people go free so that ONE innocent person not be wrongly incarcerated?

      (And I am not watching a video. If you know the argument well enough, you should be able to summarize it.)

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    • RE: THIS or THAT: the game

      Handjob in a movie.

      Being groped on an overcrowded train or doing someone in a public restroom?

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    • RE: "The person below me" game.

      In spirit, my superpower is positivity to bend the minds of others.

      TPBM is an Übermensch.

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    • RE: Something Trump is wrong about..

      @Frederick:

      @cteavin:

      @raphjd:

      I support the death penalty in principle, but not in practice.

      Too many innocent people are wrongly convicted for me to support the death penalty in the current state of the criminal justice system.

      The classic test on this is the following: Do you create a system where one man is falsely imprisoned but ninety-nine are guilty or do you create a system where to avoid that one person being wrongly convicted you're willing to let ninety-nine guilty men go free? Change the words to reflect the death penalty. I say it's worth it that one – or ten -- men in a hundred be wrongly executed than to let the guilty go free.

      I missed your comment until #1 responded to you.. I guess that is why he is #1 and I am #2.   You said "I say it's worth it that one – or ten -- men in a hundred be wrongly executed than to let the guilty go free."  10% false execution rate is OK?      :afr: :blink:
      The thing that scares me the most is.. I think that MOST people agree with that!

      So the reverse of what you're saying is that you're okay with all those guilty people going free, is that right? That's your choice: Innocent people die in prison or the guilty go free to do whatever it is they do again.

      I've not looked at the statistics but I'm assuming that the repeat offender rate is far higher than a hypothetical 1 - 10% false execution rate. Think about this scenario for a second:

      Let's say you have a five-year-old son who was rapped by a pedophile. In the court proceedings you learned the perpetrator had been tried for this crime before but released because of, say, he wasn't read his Miranda Rights (or something equally stupid). Our laws are set up in this way to prevent the innocent from being locked up, so more often than not the guilty go free and it is the citizenry that pays the price. I think it's bullshit. I have zero problems with going back to harsh penal codes that protect the population by having a higher chance of an innocent person being incarcerated, or in this case, executed.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: "whites move to the back"

      @raphjd:

      I haven't been in college in a long time, but to say "college is where racism should be done at" is insane.    Everyone with a bit of power over the situation should have treated it like they would if whites had done it.

      Racism, even against whites, is always bad.

      Yeah, I agree that bigoted behavior is always bad but right now people are dealing with differences between different –isms, --phobias, bigotry, and prejudice and so being able to act it out to see the consequences on a campus is acceptable to me. As I said elsewhere, the staff and teachers need to be doing more to turn these protests and events into a learning event.

      If that photography situation happened at a local venue off campus, then the photographer should file a lawsuit. Until these instances end up before a judge the SJW's are going to think they're in the right.

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    • RE: THIS or THAT: the game

      If I had to, bondage.

      Waking up to a bj or going to sleep after getting one?

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    • RE: "The person below me" game.

      Not at all.

      The person below me prefers a bath to a shower.

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    • RE: Is this fair? Or is it Forced / corrupt?

      I feel you're setting up a metaphor. I played several scenarios in my head, so I'm curious how you're going to spin this.

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    • RE: "whites move to the back"

      There's a 4chan trolling thing going on now where people post flyers saying, "it's okay to be white". The action is causing quite the stir.

      You're right. Making one race walk a longer path is unfair. The reason for doing so is two-fold:

      1. POC are trying to show non-POC what it feels like from their point of view. College IS the correct place to do this. College is the place to try out new ideas. Were these actions to take place off campus they should rightfully be smacked down. Bringing these actions to court so they can work their way up the legal system would be the best course of action, imo.

      2. That people tolerate this behavior now is both a sign of herd mentality (a kind of diffusion of responsibility to stand up against it) and our social systems over correcting.

      I think you're absolutely right to take a hard stand against it and speak out. Your voice needs to be heard. But ranting and raving won't gain you any sympathy and in the end, you'll just be out of breath.

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    • RE: Something Trump is wrong about..

      @raphjd:

      I support the death penalty in principle, but not in practice.

      Too many innocent people are wrongly convicted for me to support the death penalty in the current state of the criminal justice system.

      The classic test on this is the following: Do you create a system where one man is falsely imprisoned but ninety-nine are guilty or do you create a system where to avoid that one person being wrongly convicted you're willing to let ninety-nine guilty men go free? Change the words to reflect the death penalty. I say it's worth it that one – or ten -- men in a hundred be wrongly executed than to let the guilty go free.

      posted in Politics & Debate
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    • RE: Is Cory Feldman responsible to lead a charge against pedophilia in Hollywood?

      @JohnAllenson:

      Under Canadian Law.

      14 year olds are capable of consenting to having sex with older people - providing there is no relationship where the older person can exploit the younger one:  his teacher, his hockey coach, his boss, his doctor, his landlord (or the parents landlord.)

      If Kevin Spacey had asked Anthony Rapp to have sex it would have been legal under Canadian law.  They were acquaintances.  Grabbing someone, throwing them on a bed, then jumping on top of them without their prior knowledge AND consent is assault no matter what the age.

      Hearsay. It's possible Spacey did that but he doesn't remember it and was a drunkard at the time.

      Memory doesn't work like videotape. Our memories change over time. We add details, change perspectives, layer on feelings and meanings. This is one of the reasons I can not give credence to someone coming forward 30 years later to say X did Y, especially in a culture where we trust the victim first and try the alleged perpetrator without a trial. This way of conducting a trial creates a positive feedback loop for the purported victim that encourages abuse with no consequence.

      Here are the facts as we know them: Many people say Spacey is a dirty old man. There are plenty of images of Spacey dating younger men. One man said he picked him up and threw him on a bed and that was it. A woman came forward and said Spacey had a reputation.

      That's it.

      Unless you have a video of him doing something then he's just another person who likes people much younger than him who may or may not be lecherous. Neither is a crime. And if there were incontrovertible proof of Spacey picking up this young man there is still no crime, the statute of limitations has run out, so what is it people are expecting he do? If Spacey apologizes it should be to Rapp himself, as in, it should be a private affair. What people want is a public apology because the mob is angry and wants blood wherever it can get it. That mentality is wrong and we shouldn't encourage it.

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    • RE: Should I or shouldn't I? (a game)

      I should but I don't have the patience and neither does my partner.  ;D

      You should go see Thor this weekend.

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    • RE: Is Cory Feldman responsible to lead a charge against pedophilia in Hollywood?

      @JohnAllenson:

      I'm not sure how your first paragraph ties into sexual rape/sexual assault unless you're saying that paedophilia is a form of power abuse. I think the current thinking is that it's a sexual orientation.

      I said precisely that 'paedophilia' is an attraction not an act.  If it is not an act it should not be a crime.  Paedophilia or heterosexuality or homosexuality or as-far-as-that-goes liking money are internal.  Only actions should be criminalized.

      The example that has burst out on the Internet was the accusation that Kevin Spacey assaulted Anthony Rapp.  Kevin invited Anthony to a party where when they were alone, with neither the consent nor the prior knowledge of Anthony, threw him down on a bed and climbed on top of him.  It would still be a problem had Anthony been an adult rather than a 14 year old at the time.

      There's a broad conflation between attraction and assault that has to be decoupled.

      So you're being semantical? Interesting. It should be clear from the context that I was speaking of pedophilia broadly as in a person acting on those impulses. Rape a child, die.

      In addition to decoupling attraction from assault, they need to divorce our current social moors from actions done in the past. There was no culture of consent when Spacey allegedly threw that young man on the bed.

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    • RE: Cultural appropriation

      @raphjd:

      Ok, we all know how utterly evil SJWs view cultural appropriation.   The thing is,  when you ask the people who are the supposed "victims" of this, the story is completely different.

      There are countless videos where people from non-western cultures are asked if they find it offensive when westerners (let's be real, it's only evil when crackers do it, in the eyes of SJWs) and the answer doesn't match what the SJWs claim.

      SJWs never, ever show videos of, say, Japanese people getting butthurt over some honkey woman dressed as a geisha or some honkey man dresses as a ninja.   The reason is that they are proud that people (including whitey) like their heritage enough to want to emulate it.

      Also, we never, ever hear of SJWs complaining that some black guy is wearing a tux.   OH NO.   See, they are assimilating, even if they are from and living in Africa.

      Another thing SJWs use to justify their hypocrisy is that honkeys have no culture.   No one can "appropriate" what doesn't exist.

      You're right about Japan, perhaps most of Asia. I remember when Katy P. wore a kimono/China dress combo SJW's flipped out but people here thought it was fashionable. All the talk about whitewashing, most recently, Ghost in the Shell? Not a problem. When push comes to shove they do dislike it when Japanese people are played by Koreans pretending to be Japanese but they're quietly disapproving.

      I posted something recently about a black pro basketball player complaining about a younger Asian player getting dreadlocks. The young man was very respectful in pointing out that said black man had many tattoos of Chinese characters and the older player apologized saying he was just joking.

      People don't think. They jump on whatever bandwagon comes passing by and today that's cultural appropriation, rape, –ism. George Orwell's doublespeak has come to life.

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    • RE: THIS or THAT: the game

      Sweets.

      iPhone or Android?

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    • RE: "The person below me" game.

      Everything about me is sweet, so of course.  ;D

      TPBM has made someone cry before.

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    • RE: Should I or shouldn't I? (a game)

      Funny you should say that. I have an appointment on Friday, so I should.

      You should stay up all night to finish what needs to be done.

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    • Looking to blame Russia for Trump, isn't this just not accepting responsibility?

      http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/media/russia-facebook-violence/index.html

      These types of articles are multiplying. The investigation seems to me, in part, about not accepting responsibility for 1) blindly believing, 2) not having critical thinking skills, 3) being unwilling to admit the US is not (insert superlative) enough to chose the best candidates, 4) losing.

      What I have yet to hear/read is someone saying something along the lines of  "I should have checked that story my friend forwarded me on FB", or "Dammit, I should have known better" or even "Trump voters need to learn how to fact-check". Instead, "Russia made them do it" is all we're hearing. No. People made a choice because they're irrational. They're irrational because we don't value education and expect good teachers to work at retail wages while cutting funding for education programs and focusing on tests rather than the practical. In short, the US is getting what it refuses to pay for: An uneducated public without critical thinking skills.

      Thoughts?

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    • RE: Is Cory Feldman responsible to lead a charge against pedophilia in Hollywood?

      @JohnAllenson:

      Perhaps I've misunderstood.  Any clarification is welcomed.

      Some clarifications:

      Paedophilia is a sexual attraction to children.  Outside of 1984, societies don't prosecute 'Thought Crimes'.  Like with Weinstein, he isn't being charged with being 'Heterosexual' AKA attracted to women but for sexually humiliating and assaulting women.

      Rape and sexual assault tend to be about power.

      "Hi, would you like to go out on a date sometime?" changes when there is a stated/implied "or I'll destroy your reputation/you'll be fired."  We need to talk about this.

      We need to talk about sexual assault as an action of power.

      I'm not sure how your first paragraph ties into sexual rape/sexual assault unless you're saying that paedophilia is a form of power abuse. I think the current thinking is that it's a sexual orientation.

      When I was growing up in the 70's there was a campaign to define rape not as a sexual act but as one of power and violence. This is how I've (unconsciously) defined rape since. All the SJW insistence that inappropriate sexual advance, pursuing a romantic interest, etc are on par with rape/sexual assault have grated on me because they don't fit with what I grew up understanding rape to be. Thank you for reminding me the better way to talk about rape and sexual assault.

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    • RE: THIS or THAT: the game

      Treat.

      Xmas ham or Xmas goose?

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